Monday, July 11, 2016
A Saudi Morals Enforcer Called for a More Liberal Islam. Then the Death Threats Began.
By
BEN HUBBARD
JULY 10, 2016
NYT
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — For most of his adult life, Ahmed Qassim al-Ghamdi worked among the bearded enforcers of Saudi Arabia. He was a dedicated employee of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — known abroad as the religious police — serving with the front-line troops protecting the Islamic kingdom from Westernization, secularism and anything but the most conservative Islamic practices.
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