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Reader comment on item: Is Saudi Arabia Opening Up?
Submitted by gfmucci (United States), Jan 10, 2011 at 13:56
Pipes, you are the consumate optimist - ... Your prospect for Saudi Arabia parallels your optimism that the several [dozen?][hundred?] outspoken moderate Muslims in the world will overcome the several hundred million raging Muslims.
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| 2 | NEVER [240 words] | Cherif El-Ayouty | Feb 22, 2011 03:10 | 182872 | |
| 1 | Is Saudi Arabia Opening Up? [33 words] | firoz | Jan 15, 2011 05:48 | 181810 | |
| 2 | Soon it will not matter [137 words] | yuval Brandstetter MD | Jan 11, 2011 11:23 | 181737 | |
 It really does matter [141 words] | sara | Mar 30, 2012 15:39 | 181737 | ||
| 4 |  Optimist [34 words] | gfmucci | Jan 10, 2011 13:56 | 181707 | |
| 1 | Just another false hope [122 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Jan 6, 2011 04:43 | 181595 | |
| 1 | Saudi hegemony…No, Yes, NO! [136 words] | NuritG | Jan 5, 2011 14:59 | 181571 | |
| 1 | Dear Dr. Pipes [68 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Debanjan Banerjee | Jan 8, 2011 11:43 | 181571 | |
| 3 | Good review [27 words] | John in Michigan, USA | Jan 4, 2011 18:28 | 181549 | |
| Identifying a Society's Weaknesses to Keep Them Under Control [914 words] | M. Tovey | Jan 4, 2011 16:20 | 181546 | ||
| 3 | opening up [570 words] | Sir Daniel M.J. Tobin | Jan 4, 2011 11:35 | 181536 | |
| 6 | One more culprit [437 words] | Ianus | Jan 6, 2011 08:06 | 181536 | |
| 3 | Royal Oil and the Caliphate [443 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Jan 6, 2011 18:53 | 181536 | |
| 2 | Turkey? [597 words] | Sir Daniel M.J. Tobin | Jan 7, 2011 11:39 | 181536 | |
| 3 | Great comment ! [155 words] | Ianus | Jan 7, 2011 13:19 | 181536 | |
| 3 | Democracy is not for Saudi Arabia - not yet [332 words] | Frank Luke | Jan 4, 2011 10:18 | 181533 | |
| 1 | Cut the Snake's head [93 words] | Angel | Jan 4, 2011 10:12 | 181532 | |
| 5 | Is Saudi Arabia Opening Up? [46 words] | Kamath | Jan 4, 2011 08:42 | 181529 | |
| 1 | Doing Nothing can be dangerous [42 words] | Frank Luke | Jan 5, 2011 10:52 | 181529 | |
| 7 | Reforms in Saudistan ? King Abdullah's new clothes ! [696 words] | Ianus | Jan 5, 2011 16:30 | 181529 | |
| 1 | Time is NOT on our side [70 words] | Joe Six-Pack | Jan 5, 2011 18:28 | 181529 | |
| 2 | Time is not on our side? [253 words] | Rajeev | Jan 7, 2011 02:35 | 181529 | |
| Powers of Analysis [52 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 1, 2011 21:24 | 181529 | ||
| 6 | Islamic hypocrisy [64 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 3, 2011 07:07 | 181529 | |
| To convert the lot of you... to Islam [92 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 3, 2011 20:23 | 181529 | ||
| 1 | Hypocrisy 101!!! [54 words] | Jaladhi | Feb 4, 2011 14:57 | 181529 | |
| 6 | Islamic da3wa and tabligh are against Allah's grand plan and these are not my words [460 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 5, 2011 07:22 | 181529 | |
| Your concern is touching ... Dhims [107 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 5, 2011 21:54 | 181529 | ||
| 7 | What is my concern? [308 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 8, 2011 06:14 | 181529 | |
| Lack of an ability for a discourse [11 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 8, 2011 22:01 | 181529 | ||
| 5 | Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and this is what the Qur'an says [35 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 11, 2011 07:18 | 181529 | |
| Propaganda [62 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 11, 2011 23:38 | 181529 | ||
| 4 | Islam is really the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only [229 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 13, 2011 09:20 | 181529 | |
| With brains like that... [91 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 15, 2011 19:05 | 181529 | ||
| 4 | Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and this is what the Qur'an says [197 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 17, 2011 06:29 | 181529 | |
| Repetitions [117 words] | Amin Riaz | Feb 19, 2011 14:00 | 181529 | ||
| 5 | Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and this is what the Qur'an says part deux [435 words] | dhimmi no more | Feb 21, 2011 18:28 | 181529 | |
| quick query to dhimmi no more [28 words] | maximillion | Mar 2, 2011 19:22 | 181529 | ||
| 77 | Teaching Arabic to one tablighee at a time [256 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 4, 2011 06:28 | 181529 | |
| 14 | to dhimmi no more ... [121 words] | maximillion | Mar 4, 2011 22:04 | 181529 | |
| 6 | Teaching Arabic to one tablighee at a time part deux read and laugh [1086 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 07:00 | 181529 | |
| 7 | If it is a mistake then i must be in good company! [249 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 07:53 | 181529 | |
| 5 | I cannot wait for this one either [258 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 08:19 | 181529 | |
| 11 | our dear Max is asking me to look up the meaning of a perfect Arabic word in an English language dictionary! I call this ignorance [130 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 10:20 | 181529 | |
| 4 | Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and this is what the Qur'an says and al-wali wa al-mawali [237 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 10:30 | 181529 | |
| 5 | Arabic grammar [104 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 10:55 | 181529 | |
| 4 | Teaching Arabic to one tablighee at a time part Nth [183 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 6, 2011 14:00 | 181529 | |
| 4 | The Qur'an says that Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and you ain't no Hijazi Arab [484 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 7, 2011 08:52 | 181529 | |
| 2 | Islam is really the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only [592 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 10, 2011 06:19 | 181529 | |
| 1 | Teaching by the wonderful Dr. Dhimmi.... [512 words] | maximillion | Mar 10, 2011 19:24 | 181529 | |
| 4 | Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and this is what the Qur'an says part Nth [1357 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 12, 2011 07:37 | 181529 | |
| 3 | al-komidya al-islamiyya one more time, Islam is the religion of the Arabs only and transliteration of Arabic by Arabs [1090 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 12, 2011 13:53 | 181529 | |
| 4 | More Islamic ignorance [184 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 12, 2011 14:09 | 181529 | |
| 2 | Our daer Max has no clue what is really Allah's rasm or what is really al-i3rab and i call this ignorance [920 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 12, 2011 14:48 | 181529 | |
| 12 | Dr. Dhimmi all confused? [354 words] | maximillion | Mar 12, 2011 20:45 | 181529 | |
| 4 | Our daer Max: we kuffar only tell you what your islamic sources tell us in Arabic something that you cannot do! [2000 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 13, 2011 09:51 | 181529 | |
| 2 | More evidence from the Qur'an that islam is the religion of the Arabs only [148 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 13, 2011 10:06 | 181529 | |
| 4 | Aristotle in the Sira read and laugh [282 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 13, 2011 14:52 | 181529 | |
| 17 | Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only and this is what the Qur'an says [86 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 15, 2011 11:26 | 181529 | |
| 1 | More evidence from the Qur'an that islam is the religion of the Arabs only part deux [205 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 19, 2011 07:32 | 181529 | |
| 2 | More evidence from the Qur'an that islam is the religion of the Arabs only part trois [170 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 19, 2011 07:42 | 181529 | |
| 11 | Our dear Max revisited and al-qira'at al-sab3a [924 words] | dhimmi no more | Mar 27, 2011 15:37 | 181529 | |
| Islam Will Have Its Moment to try Conversion - But In the Eternal Realm, it is Only a Moment [1068 words] | M. Tovey | Apr 4, 2011 14:15 | 181529 | ||
| To you is yours and to me is mine [129 words] | Liam Devlin | Dec 7, 2011 03:54 | 181529 | ||
| 6 | Another victim of Arabian imperialism and of Islam [918 words] | dhimmi no more | Dec 8, 2011 07:07 | 181529 | |
| Islam [142 words] | Ahmed | Mar 30, 2012 11:56 | 181529 |
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