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Saudi sheikh pays the price for standing up to religious police
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 frontline troops protecting the Islamic kingdom from Westernisation, secularism and anything but the most conservative Islamic practices.
Some of that resembled ordinary police work: busting drug dealers and bootleggers in a country where alcohol is banned. But the men of “The Commission,” as Saudis call it, spent most of their time maintaining the puritanical public norms that set Saudi Arabia apart not only from the West, but from most of the Muslim world.
A key offence was ikhtilat, or unauthorised mixing between men and women. The kingdom's clerics warn that it could lead to fornication, adultery, broken homes, children born of unmarried couples and full-blown societal collapse. For years, al-Ghamdi stuck with the programme and was eventually put in charge of the commission for the region of Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
Then he had a reckoning and began to question the rules. So he turned to the Koran and the stories of the Prophet M
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Palestine
Country in West Asia
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State of Palestine دولة فلسطين (Arabic) | |
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| Anthem: فدائي Fidāʾī | |
Show globe Map of Palestine Occupied Palestinian territories (green)[1] | |
| Status | UN observer state under Israeli occupation[a] Recognized by 146 UN member states |
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| Largest city | Gaza City (before 2023), currently in flux[3][4] |
| Official languages | Arabic |
| Ethnic groups | PalestinianArabs |
| Religion (2020)[5] | |
| Demonym(s) | Palestinian |
| Government | Unitary provisionalsemi-presidential republic[6][7] |
• President | Mahmoud Abbas[c] |
• Prime Minister | Mohammad Mustafa |
• Speaker of the Parliament | Aziz Dweik |
| Legislature | National Council |
• Declaration of Independence | 15 November 1988 |
• UNGA observer state resolution | 29 November 2012 |
• Sovereignty dispute with Israel | Ongoing[d]& |