The religious landscape of Saudi Arabia—a state founded on - TopicsExpress



          

The religious landscape of Saudi Arabia—a state founded on religion—is shifting. Internally, the dominance of the ultraconservative Wahhabists is being challenged by an explosion of social media and rising education levels among the kingdom’s largest-ever “youth bulge.” Pressures from the outside include sharpened tensions between Sunni and Shia, the rise of politically-oriented Salafism and the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood as a major political force. Pulitzer Center grantee and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Caryle Murphy kicks off her exploration of the evolving role of faith in Saudi Arabia with an op-ed piece that ran in the international editions of The New York Times: bit.ly/1ibmxRA
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:15:01 +0000

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Time is ripe to name and shame! :o/ Jhoot boltay waqt zaban

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