For Saudi Women, Votes Are Keys to the Kingdom
Now that women and supporters of their enfranchisement have had to set their sights on the 2009 polls, it appears that once again the government has offered up women as the bargaining chips to assure ultraconservative clerics that their stranglehold on public mores remains complete.

The Things They Do in the Name of Male Guardianship
How can a grown woman with her son be prevented from leaving the country because she doesn’t have permission from her other son who is her legal guardian?

Wahhabism and the Illusion of a Golden Age
I had high expectations that Algar would blast away the clichés and superficialities and get to the essence of Wahhabism. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Although well written, the work suffers from several major flaws.

Changing My Curriculum
One of the first things that most children learn in school is that most formal education is a fraud. What children are learning (and not learning) everywhere is a big scandal. Yet the curriculum wars are not about improving schools all over the world. They are about forcing one party’s myths as the official dogma

The Terror of Beheadings: Who Is Responsible?
Today, the terror tactics used by the British and other European colonizers to break the will of their captive populations are being used by a new group of people—the Al Qaeda terrorists who have infiltrated the freedom fighters trying to get rid of new occupations.

The Wahhabi Threat to Islam
It is long past time for Muslims to question the Wahhabi ideology that is pulling the rug out from under Saudi life, for it is that same ideology that has been involved in militant movements throughout the Muslim world for years.

The Prices of Milk and Oil
The fair market value of oil ought to be somewhere between the price of antique mahogany and polished diamonds, I postulated. Hail the mighty cartel!

Jews Are Not the Enemy, House of Saud
Dear Saudi Royal Family, and the Guardians of the Two Holy Places (Chevron and Raytheon). The BBC is claiming that you are not giving tourist visas to Jews. Shame on you. We need to talk.

The Seatbelt as Bid’ah (Religious Innovation) and the Destruction of Muslim History
These cases demonstrate that sites of common historical value should not be placed under the whims and controls of one entity, the Wahabbis-Saudis in this case. Rather, these sites should be administered by an international body whose sole aim is to preserve. Unless Muslims act to pressure the Saudi government and their own governments, we can look forward to further wanton destruction.

Sex and the Saudi
Girls are married at alarmingly young ages in Saudi Arabia simply because their fathers are sick of driving them around: they just dump them on some other poor fool, who will then commence a lifetime of chauffeuring responsibilities. Not to mention that many Saudi men have multiple wives, and thus even more daughters—the headache increases exponentially. By the time the Saudi man finally gets home again, it is tomorrow, he’s halfstarved to death, dinner still isn’t done, and he’ll certainly be late to work, and people think the oil money makes them lazy!

Saudi King Admits to Deal with Devil, Qaddafi Claims; Crown Prince Abdullah Tells Him to Mind Own Business
By Ahmed Nassef Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is to Arab League summits what Old Faithful is to Yellowstone National Park. More than just being counted on to spew hot air (most of his colleagues in the League are quite...

Prince Talal's Gift to CAIR
Maybe we're wrong. Maybe Muslims would have been better served had he spent the cash on a pair of gold doors for his new chopper, like the Sultan of Brunei, or a boob job for his wife. And although hookers and casinos are good projects, we always wanted them to support some cause close to *OUR* heart, rather than some obscure madresa in Nigeria. The money could not have gone to a more worthy cause than CAIR, and it could not have come from a better source than Talal.