Under the bizarre headline "Loosey Goosey Saudi", the author Maureen Dowd, considers the social trends in Saudi Arabia and (reluctantly?) concedes that the Kingdom is moving in a more liberal direction, albeit at a "galactically glacial pace". She reports the comments of Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister: "We are breaking away from the shackles of the past...We are moving in the direction of a liberal society. What is happening in Israel is the opposite; [it is] moving into a more religiously oriented culture and into a more religiously determined politics and to a very extreme sense of nationhood, which, the Prince added, was coming to a boiling point and made all efforts to negotiate a Middle East peace fruitless. Click here to read article.
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