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Dependent on Saudi stability for setting oil prices and making petro-dollar investments, the West is willing to overlook the kingdom's gender discrimination and worldwide spill of Wahhabi ideology.
Ida Lichter, M.D.: Saudi Reforms Thwarted By Puritanical Laws M.D. Ida Lichter 2011
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Dependent on Saudi stability for setting oil prices and making petro-dollar investments, the West is willing to overlook the kingdom's gender discrimination and worldwide spill of Wahhabi ideology.
Ida Lichter, M.D.: Saudi Reforms Thwarted By Puritanical Laws M.D. Ida Lichter 2011
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The 87-year-old monarch returned to a world of Arab revolt, and immediately decreed the disbursement of tens of billions from the kingdom's vast petro-dollar result to students and the poor.
William Bradley: If Obama Loses, It Won't Be Because "It's the Economy, Stupid" William Bradley 2011
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The 87-year-old monarch returned to a world of Arab revolt, and immediately decreed the disbursement of tens of billions from the kingdom's vast petro-dollar result to students and the poor.
William Bradley: If Obama Loses, It Won't Be Because "It's the Economy, Stupid" William Bradley 2011
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Dependent on Saudi stability for setting oil prices and making petro-dollar investments, the West is willing to overlook the kingdom's gender discrimination and worldwide spill of Wahhabi ideology.
Ida Lichter, M.D.: Saudi Reforms Thwarted By Puritanical Laws M.D. Ida Lichter 2011
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But it appears that the devastation wrought by the titanic floods do not merit petro-dollar humanitarian assistance.
Saskia Sassen: Pakistan's Floods Reveal an Emerging Geopolitics 2010
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Perhaps it's coincidence that instead of haggling over financing in New York, Rauf -- Imam Feisal, to his followers -- will spend the rest of the summer touring some of the petro-dollar capitals of the planet, including such fonts of potential funding as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
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Perhaps it's coincidence that instead of haggling over financing in New York, Rauf -- Imam Feisal, to his followers -- will spend the rest of the summer touring some of the petro-dollar capitals of the planet, including such fonts of potential funding as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
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This is completely unlike the harsh version of Islam imported from Wahabi Saudi Arabia after the petro-dollar boom in the Middle East in the 1970s.
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His speeches never allow an empty seat and his education programs out of the Zaytuna Institute have offered American Muslims an alternative to the Wahhabi petro-dollar paradigm.
Abbas Barzegar: Rethinking Islamic Reform: Finding Tough Answers the Hard Way Abbas Barzegar 2010
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