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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state ... Saud royal family along with a coalition of ultraconservative Wahhabi religious elites. Together, they enforce Islamic law and ...

He was endowed with unique intellectual integrity, capability for action, and genuine love for the State of Israel," ...

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Show more Wahhabism is the most misunderstood brand of Islam. It is more correctly called Salafism and is a fundamentalist interpretation of the faith, often associated with Saudi Arabia.

Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah ... the kingdom has long been dominated by Wahhabism, a strict interpretation of Islam that prohibits the representation of human and ...