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American dream: 10million Indians want to settle in US

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:04:00 -0700

Times of India - Apr. 26 - WASHINGTON: Around 13% of the world's adults - over 640 million people - would like to emigrate with roughly 150 million, including 10 million Indians wishing to settle in America. So suggests a new Gallup survey giving the US an undisputed title as the

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From a Saudi prince, tough talk on America’s favoritism toward Israel

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Richard Cohen - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - He [Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal} is also angry as hell, and he lets America have it. He starts by citing what he calls President Obama’s “controversial speech last month, admonishing Arab governments to embrace democracy and provide freedom to their populations.” Saudi Arabia, he wrote, heard what Obama said and took it “seriously,” and he noted, of course, that Obama had not demanded the same rights for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Point taken.

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A league of despots

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Post - By Amir Taheri - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - Believe it or not, by the start of 2011, the only Arab country that appeared safe and stable enough to host the summit was Iraq. Yes, the same Iraq of "quagmire" and "new Vietnam" repute. But Iraqis weren't keen on hosting the summit, either. Iraq's post-Saddam politicians prefer to emphasize "Iraqiness" (Uruqa) as opposed to "Arabness" (Uruba) -- not surprising in a country where non-Arabs are 30 percent of the population. Nevertheless, the Iraqis, tickled by being acknowledged as the only stable place in the "Arab World," agreed to host the summit. The man put in charge was Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari -- an ethnic Kurd who speaks literary Arabic with a Kurdish accent.

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Pumped up?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By James Surowiecki - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - The U.S. economy has finally started to create jobs at a reasonable clip. Inflation is still low. Corporate profits are healthy, and surveys of business conditions suggest that the recovery is, as the Federal Reserve recently put it, “on a firmer footing.” So are happy days here again? Hardly.

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Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Slavoj Žižek - Feb. 01 (Opinion) - The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism.

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As China Courts Overseas Business, State-Owned Companies Often Take the Hit

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:50:00 -0800

Time - Nov. 27 - A man stands watching the newly opened Chinese-built metro light rail in the western Saudi city of Mecca on Nov. 2, 2010 The 2.5 million pilgrims who flocked to Mecca during the holy week of Hajj, which concluded earlier this week, will have found it

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Justice, even for princes

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ali al-Ahmed - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - Britain's conviction of a Saudi prince for the murder of his servant has inspired Saudi Arabians longing for impartial justice The prince is guilty of murder. That was the verdict rendered against the Saudi prince, Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud, regarding the death of his servant, Bandar Abdulaziz. It is a victory for the people of Saudi Arabia who, for the first time in their lives, can see a "blueblood" royal held accountable for his actions against a commoner. His trial at the Old Bailey sent a strong message that a Saudi prince and a pauper are the same in the eyes of the law in Britain, and that British justice is superior to the Saudi court system, which claims to uphold Islamic standards. Many Saudis are cheering the verdict: they know that if this murder had occurred in Saudi Arabia, the killer would not have seen a single day in prison. The victim in this case had no hopes of receiving justice in his homeland, but the British court has upheld the fundamental principle of ...

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Keeping Saudi women tagged by text | Nesrine Malik

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Nesrine Malik - Aug. 04 (Opinion) - Text alerts for men when their female charges leave Saudi alone is the new frontline in the country?s technology war Want to know whether your wife, sister or daughter has left the county? Well, in Saudi Arabia, there?s an app for that. Reportedly, male guardians or mahrams in Saudi Arabia are now receiving text message notifications when their female charges leave the country unaccompanied. "iMahram", a friend of mine jokingly called it. According to Wajeha al-Huwaider , a Saudi female activist, when she left the kingdom for a holiday with her family, her husband received a text message from the foreign ministry notifying him that she had departed. "It is sad how Saudis use technology in a way not intended to be used for," she told ...

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Saudi Arabia's House Of Cards

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Ilan Berman - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - How stable is Saudi Arabia? Not very, according to at least one member of the Kingdom's ruling class. Last month Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, a prominent dissident now in exile in Cairo, issued an open letter to his fellow royals, urging them to abandon their desert fiefdom for greener pastures. According to the prince, the current social compact between the House of Saud and its subjects had become untenable, with the government no longer able to "impose" its writ on the people and growing grassroots discontent at the royals "interfering in people's private life and restricting their liberties." His advice? That King Abdullah and his coterie flee the Kingdom before they are overthrown--and before their opponents "cut off our heads in streets."

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Scapegoating Middle Eastern women | Joseph Mayton

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Joseph Mayton - May. 08 - Measures to further restrict the freedoms of women are being taken by conservatives who see women as temptresses The other day, my wife related how one of the office "boys" at the NGO where she worked in Cairo had been alone in the building with a female cleaner. In itself, it shouldn?t been an issue, but when the office?s accountant confronted the office boy (who is actually a middle-aged Egyptian), he stated that this was unacceptable. The reason: the woman could have tried to seduce him. In the Saudi city of Asir, women were recently banned from jogging and taking physical exercise in certain areas. The excuse was that the local government had to "guarantee their safety from criminals who frequently harass them as they walk in lonely ...

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OPEC returning to oil sector investment

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:24:24 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Mar. 18 - With oil prices steady around $US80, OPEC countries are returning to energy investment projects postponed at the height of the economic crisis, while foreign firms are playing a major role. OPEC nations used the sidelines of this week's meeting of the

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Pilgrim Non Grata in Mecca

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - So on my odyssey to Saudi Arabia, I tried to learn about the religion that smashed into the American consciousness on 9/11 in a less sneaky way. And that’s when the paradox sunk in: It was nearly impossible for me to experience Islam in the cradle of Islam.

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Saudi Woman Gets 300 Lashes, Jail for Complaints, Group Says

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:04:06 -0800

Business Week - Mar. 03 - March 3 (Bloomberg) -- A Saudi woman who filed harassment claims in Saudi Arabia without being accompanied by a male relative has been sentenced to 300 lashes and 18 months in jail, Human Rights Watch said. Sawsan Salim lodged a series of complaints

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Saudi Hypocrisy or Saudi Tolerance?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Eboo Patel - Nov. 17 (Opinion) - What's the proper response to the Saudi King's speech about religious pluralism at the UN? President Bush and Secretary of State Rice greeted his words with cautious optimism, as did President Shimon Peres of Israel who said, "I wish that your voice will become the prevailing voice of our region, of all people."

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The Growing Power of Petro-Islam

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Michael Hirsh - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - None of this would have happened had it not been for the petro-dollar. The Saudis would have stayed obscure Bedouins and Wahhabism little more than a cult. But because of their oil wealth, the Saudis were able to spread Wahhabism's seed worldwide, making it far more mainstream than it would have been otherwise. As one Egyptian intellectual described it me, "It's as if Jimmy Swaggart had come into hundreds of billions of dollars and taken over most of Christianity."

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Islam's Silent Moderates

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:10:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with 100 stripes: Let no compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. (Koran 24:2) -- IN the last few weeks ...

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Oasis or Mirage?

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:10:30 -0800

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - The Middle East is experiencing something we haven't seen in a long, long time: moderates getting their act together a little, taking tentative stands and pushing back on the bad guys. If all that sounds kind of, sort of, maybe, qualified, well ... it is. But in a region in which extremists go all the way and the moderates usually just go away, it's the first good news in years -- an oasis in a desert of despair.

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Saudi Arabia weapons deal supports jihad

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:23:46 -0700

Columbia Daily Tribune - By Diana West - Aug. 08 (Opinion) - It's easy to get things mixed up unless you remember the latest version of the Bush Doctrine: You're either with us, or we sell you smart bombs. In the Bush administration, such appeasement counts as Grand Strategy. As the leading Sunni state, Saudi Arabia is supposed to serve as a counterbalance to Shiite Iranian terror-statism. Forget about Saudi Arabian terror-statism. And please don't wonder what happens if and when jihad revolutionaries, already thought to have infiltrated Saudi security forces, get their hands on our smart bombs. Inspired by the teachings of James Baker - practically an honorary Saudi princeling - Condi, Bob and George see the Saudis as our moderate allies. Who cares if they promote jihad doctrine? Who cares if they sponsor Hamas? Who cares how many Saudis support or belong to al-Qaida?

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