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In characteristically subdued Saudi style, the debate prompted by Fahd's proposed reforms is neither conducted in public meetings nor reported in the country's media. The government bans public gatherings of three or more people, and press censorship precludes coverage of internal disputes. Instead, petitions and pamphlets, widely disseminated...
During Ramadan, the month-long Islamic fasting period that followed the war, vigilante members of the religious police, the mutawain, stepped up their harassment of Saudi and foreign women who displayed too much skin in violation of dress codes. Women appearing in public without veils, or without wearing head-to...
To curb the excesses of the fanatics, the King appointed a religious moderate, Abdul Rahman al-Said, to head the mutawain, officially known as the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Al-Said, a former dean of Islamic studies at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic...
Algeria's President Chadli Bendjedid last week took a daring gamble that given the choice, Algerians will decline to replace him with an Islamic fundamentalist. After two weeks of angry antigovernment demonstrations by Islamic fundamentalists and their supporters, Bendjedid agreed to hold both presidential and parliamentary elections within the next...
Thousands of fundamentalists had battled against police, demanding that elections scheduled for June 27 include the presidency as well as the legislature. By the beginning of last week, clouds of tear gas hung over the capital and about a dozen people had been killed in what looked like a second...