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To: TimF who wrote (30450)	10/26/2006 4:39:21 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541747

Then you need to rehash your info on Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government does not feel for its people the way for example Germany or France feels for their people. Saudi is society of minorities (see atimes.com for an excellent albeit narrowly focused discussion) At best, you can say that the Saudi government "cares" for its people the way a corporation may care for its employees (or more like the way a feudal lord cared for its peasants enough to prevent rebellion)...I am excluding the Royal clan from this, of course. As to the religion issue, it is not so much that the bin-Saud family support entanglement of government and religion, rather there has been a pact with the Wahhabi evangelists that in exchange for material government support (e.g. charity contribution, tax breaks, and fight against anti-religious and anti-wahhabi voices) the mosques and evangelists preach support of the government to the public...this is not unlike the arrangement between this WH and the RR.