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English SA 2018-10-17 Tier 1
Jamal Khashoggi — Washington Post columns 2017-2018 mosaic (anti-MBS critique, free expression, Yemen war, last column posthumous)
From Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018, Saudi journalist, former editor-in-chief of Al-Watan and former advisor to Prince Turki bin Faisal; broke with the Saudi regime over MBS's repression of dissent and self-exiled to the US in 2017; murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on or about 2 October 2018…
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Arabic SD 2018-09-18 Tier 1
Imam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (leader of Sudan's Umma Party; Imam of the Ansar; two-time elected PM) — essay "National Awareness and the Incubators of Extremism" (his official website / World Forum for Wasatiyya): "dictatorial rule, whether civil or military, is a form of extremism"; the universal Caliphate is "outdated... not a condition for realizing the principles of Islam in governance."
الحكم الدكتاتوري مهما كان شكله مدنياً أو عسكرياً هو شكل من أشكال التطرف لأنه يخضع المجتمع لإرادة أحادية قاهرة الخلافة الجامعة والإمامة الجامعة تطلعات تجاوزها الزمن، وهي ليست شرطاً في تحقيق مبادئ الإسلام في الولاية
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English PS 2002-01-16 Tier 1
Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The lack of Israeli security is born of the lack of Palestinian freedom. We Palestinians have recognized Israel on 78 percent of historic Palestine. It is Israel that refuses to acknowledge…
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Arabic EG Tier 1
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — essay "Islam and Democracy" (his official website, al-qaradawi.net): democracy's essence "is from the very core of Islam," and a Muslim embraces democracy "as a form of governance that embodies the political principles of Islam" (shura, accountable rulers, commanding right/forbidding wrong) — the foundational political-Islam reconciliation of Islam and democracy.
الذي يتأمل جوهر الديمقراطية يجد أنه من صميم الإسلام والمسلم الذي يدعو إلى الديمقراطية إنما يدعو إليها باعتبارها شكلاً للحكم، يجسد مبادئ الإسلام السياسية في اختيار الحاكم، وإقرار الشورى والنصيحة، والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر، ومقاومة الجور، ورفض المعصية