He has also liberalized Saudi society. It may seem from a Western perspective to be a minor matter, but it was huge for the Saudis: giving women the right to drive represents an enormous step forward, in curbing the misogyny of mainstream Islam. At the same time, recognizing that he would have to proceed cautiously […]
Khaled Beydoun: The Saudi Regime Does Not Represent Islam (Part One)
Khaled Beydoun, author of a preposterous book about “Islamophobia,” has taken to the pages of Al Jazeera (the media mouthpiece of the government of Qatar, now at daggers drawn with Saudi Arabia) to deplore what he sees as blaming Islam for the murder of Khashoggi. The Khashoggi affair is yet another reason for the world […]
Vox: Islam isn’t a race, but “Islamophobia” is racism
The Left grows more shrill, hysterical, and ridiculous by the day, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the hard-Left publication Vox. In this piece, Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Muslim academic Khaled Beydoun, explains that today’s “anti-Muslim hate” is a recrudescence of “Orientalism,” the process by which the arrogant, racist, colonialist West demonized […]