Fahad Nazer

As conflict grows in West Asia, the US-Saudi Gulf Widens with the US more cautious, Saudi Arabia assertive

The birthplace of Islam and the location of two of Islam's holiest sites needs to seriously reevaluate its policies on religious freedom and send a strong message that Islam is indeed a religion of peace, moderation and tolerance.

9/11 was a great embarrassment for the Saudi leaders, but terrorist attacks inside Saudi Arabia in 2003 underlined the need for the kingdom to reinvent itself from an incubator for terrorists to promoting a more pluralistic view of Islam

A handful of rapidly aging princes control the global center of both oil production and the Islamic faith; its politics could endanger worldwide stability.