How Real Is Saudi Religious Moderation?

James M. Dorsey

The Algemeiner Journal

11 June 2019

RSIS senior fellow James M. Dorsey at NTU wrote that Muhammad bin Abdul-Karim Al-Issa is the public face of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)’s version of moderate Islam. A 54-year-old former justice minister, Issa, one of a younger generation of Islamic scholars willing to do MBS’s bidding, has been doing the rounds internationally and making all the right moves to project the de facto Saudi leader as the spearhead of efforts to counter ultra-conservatism at home and fight political and militant Islam across the globe.

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