ONE OF Saudi Arabia's senior Muslim clerics, Sheik Abdul-Rahman al-Barak, committed a familiar outrage last month. The 75-year-old scholar of Wahhabism, the severe strain of Islam that is Saudi Arabia's official ideology, issued a fatwa saying that two writers should be put to death if they did n...
A Hint of Tolerance
ONE OF Saudi Arabia's senior Muslim clerics, Sheik Abdul-Rahman al-Barak, committed a familiar outrage last month. The 75-year-old scholar of Wahhabism, the severe strain of Islam that is Saudi Arabia's official ideology, issued a fatwa saying that two writers should be put to death if they did n...