Saudi Arabia's Revolution From the Top Has No Place for Critics (JMD quoted on Bloomberg)

Saudi Arabia's

Revolution From

the Top Has No Place

For Critics

By

Vivian Nereim

and

Glen Carey

October 12, 2017, 2:10 PM GMT+8

·

Clerics and other dissenters are co-opted, cowed -- or jailed
· Radical change could bring chaos without a ‘very firm hand’

Few would describe Mohammed Al-Arefe as a defender
of women’s rights. In one infamous video, the Saudi cleric e…