[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7613575.stm[/URL] oh my oh my oh my
Well with a name like Sheikh Salih Ibn al-Lunacy and that it's currently 1429 there what did you expect.
Heh, I saw that and thought that the judge is a stupid fucking idiot. If he wasn't so highly placed in Saudi, I reckon that even the royal family would distance themselves from that remark.
Nah, I don't think it is mainstream thinking. Radical thinkers in Saudi are a small (but important) minority.
Wrong. Opinion polls across the Arab world (as well as in the obscenely named 'Palestinian territories') show that support for 'militant Islamic action' is strong, whether it is butchering Jews, or enforcing a strict interpretation of the Koran. D.
Especially as Saudi is the birthplace (and major centre) of the Wahhabi School of Islam - one of the more rigid and fundamentalist Schools. The Saudi Royal Family are (or were) followers of that school. And Wahhabism is the dominant Islamic variety in Saudi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism Phil.