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Sudais calls for global code of conduct
2014-08-16 - Saudi Gazette - Sheikh Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Sudais, chief of the Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, called on Friday for a global code of conduct for leaders, scholars and young people to halt a further slide into violence and "terror" in the Middle East. In his Friday sermon in Makkah, the imam of the Grand Mosque, Al-Sudais, decried "mass massacres ag 

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Saudi Arabia's Awakening Shakyhs: Where are they Today?

During the 1990's a younger generation of Saudi religious shaykhs rose to prominence on a wave of anti-Western rhetoric and criticism of Saudi government policies. A government crackdown in 1994 put some of the most prominent members of the Awakening movement in prison for the rest of the decade. Since their release, most have lost their positions within the Saudi religious-educational bureaucracy, but many have been able to resume a public, if more subdued role within the religious community.