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(Guardian) Saudi Arabia prints 1.5m copies of religious edict banning protests

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Kendall Harmon

Saudi Arabia is printing 1.5m copies of an edict by religious scholars outlawing protests in the conservative kingdom as un-Islamic, the state news agency said.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter and a major US ally, is an absolute monarchy that does not tolerate any form of public dissent.

It managed to stifle an attempt to stage a mass protest on 11 March with a large security presence on the streets.

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3 comments on “(Guardian) Saudi Arabia prints 1.5m copies of religious edict banning protests”

  1. carl says:
    March 31, 2011 at 1:47 am

    Well and Good. Soon we will have more civilians to protect. I assume we will be able to commence the bombing of Saudi Arabia any day now. Yet one more country to assimilate into the global economic and political order. And how convenient that we already have air bases in country. Or perhaps we should finish off Libya first?

    carl

  2. kmh1 says:
    March 31, 2011 at 11:40 am

    Isalm means peace. And democracy. And human rights.

  3. evan miller says:
    April 1, 2011 at 12:53 am

    This is news?