[lbo-talk] Saudi Arabia: ObL is still winning

kjkhoo at softhome.net kjkhoo at softhome.net
Wed May 14 11:03:00 PDT 2003


Michael Pollak wrote:
>On Mon, 12 May 2003, The Guardian was quoted quoting Saad al-Fagih, who
>lists his credentials as
>
>> a leading exiled Saudi dissident and director of the Movement for
>> Islamic Reform in Arabia
>
>And several of his views about Saudi Arabia in the article seem clearly to
>be those of an Islamicist. So perhaps they ought to be taken with a grain
>of salt when he argues that the victory of his side is inevitable.

Careful. There are Islamicists and Islamicists. You can disagree with them all. But it would be foolish (in another context, someone might say anti-semitic) to lump them all into one side, as in your "his side" identifying him with ObL.

kj khoo



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