Some feel that if the United States continues to provide financial aid to Islamabad, it will be recognized as acceptance of flourishing Islamist extremism in Pakistan.
Young Mauritanian girls married off to wealthy Saudis are used briefly as sex slaves and then discarded.
It would be nice to see America expand its cache of good will cache to enhance our diplomatic — as opposed to military — capital.
As revolutions and reforms sweep the Arab world, Saudi women continue to push for their rights. Inspired by their sisters in Egypt and Tunisia, a national women’s movement called Saudi Women Revolution has coalesced with clear and wide-ranging demands. Chief among them is the ability to participate in the political process, including voting and running for election.
He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf, and he wanted to hire a maid. She was a single mom from Mindanao in the Philippines who saw, like so many others, employment in Saudi Arabia as a route out of poverty. When he picked her up at the Dammam International Airport last June, little did she know she was entering not a brighter chapter of her life but a chamber of horrors from which she would be liberated only after six long months.
“He is finished,” was the regrettably premature pronouncement of a relative of bin Laden in the nineties.
Among the batch of classified diplomatic cables recently released by the controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, several have highlighted the vast extent of the financial infrastructure of Islamist terrorism sponsored by key U.S. allies in the ongoing “War on Terror.”
The New York Times and Washington Post misrepresented the views of Arab leaders on Iran.
Apparently dealing responsibly with Iran will only strain Washington’s relationship with the Arab Middle East.
If the British and French had agreed to Arab demands after World War I, an Arab-Jewish state might have been created.