Saudi export of strict Islam raises suspicions
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SAN DIEGO - Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.
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On Wednesday, the US State Department released its annual report on religious freedom around the world, accusing eight countries, including Saudi Arabia, of severe violations.
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Fundamentalist Islamic leaders in Saudi Arabia are telling militants intent on fighting "infidels" to join the insurgency in Iraq instead of taking up Osama bin Laden's call to oust the Saudi royal family at home, say Saudi dissidents who monitor theological edicts coming out of the kingdom.
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The Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia, who have made great strides in recent years, are worried that those gains will be rolled back as sectarian tensions rise across the region.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States for the first time named Saudi Arabia yesterday as a country that severely violates religious freedom, potentially subjecting the close US ally to sanctions.
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Moved by internal politics and Saudi ties, tens of thousands of Russian Muslims traveled to Saudi Arabia to join the masses in Mecca, Islamâs holiest site.
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The United States on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of severe violations of religious freedom in a rare official rebuke of a close ally and key oil supplier that potentially could lead to sanctions.
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Yemeni and Western officials are concerned that Al Qaeda-linked radicals are among those making the journey.
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Some officials believe the Muslim Brotherhood, a secretive and diverse movement opposed to Western influences, offers a chance for political engagement that could help isolate violent jihadists.
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QATIF, Saudi Arabia -- Like many Saudi Shi'ites, Abdullah Abdul-Hussein is worried that if the government does not end anti-Shi'ite tirades by influential Sunni clerics, the sectarian conflict ravaging Iraq and threatening Lebanon could spread to his country.
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WASHINGTON: Asia dominated a US blacklist of alleged flouters of religious freedom, with the US State Department also naming for the first time close ally Saudi Arabia as a &quot;country of particular concern&quot; in its annual report.
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An ultra-radical Islamic ideology mixing zealot-like devotion and holy war creed is drawing more scrutiny in anti-terrorist probes from the Middle East to Europe - with increasing indications that its base on ...
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Nation is confronting whether its conservative Islamic beliefs have opened the way for the emergence of al Qaeda and other terror groups.
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As the U.S. wrestles with questions of terrorism and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers.
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Osama bin Laden's latest message, his first directed specifically at Saudis in years, has been widely seen as an attempt to show he is still a player in his homeland despite a security clampdown that has sharply limited al-Qaida's field for terrorist operations in the conservative kingdom.
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The Saudi government has stepped up  surveillance of charities amid fears that some of the big cash  donations made to them during the holy month of Ramadan are  being channeled to militant groups like al Qaeda.
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BEIRUT -- The kidnappings, beheadings, and explosions in Iraq, the killing of innocent children in Russia, and the car bombings in Turkey and Indonesia have sparked debate among Arab intellectuals on why the majority of terror acts have been committed by Muslims acting in the name of Islam.