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Soccer emerges as focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia

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May 12, 2013
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Prince Faisal rushes off the pitch

By James M. Dorsey

Soccer, alongside minority Shiite Muslims and relatives of imprisoned government critics, is emerging as a focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich kingdom that despite banning demonstrations by law is struggling to fend off the waves of change sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

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