--- title: "10 Saudi arabia Quotes By John R. Bradley" description: "10 Saudi arabia quotes by John R. Bradley. Plus more from John R. Bradley and more Saudi arabia sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/john-r-bradley-7263_human-rights_malaysia-then-offers-an-example-of-what_405484.jpg" --- > [“Malaysia, then, offers an example of what happens when socalled moderate Islamists are appeased by the liberal elite. They provide cover for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/malaysia-then-offers-an-example-of-what-happens-when-socalled/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/john-r-bradley-7263_human-rights_malaysia-then-offers-an-example-of-what_405484.jpg) > [“Egypt is now a deeply conservative country that, over the past two decades, has so pervasively succumbed to the Wahhabi customs promoted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/egypt-is-now-a-deeply-conservative-country-that-over-the-past-two/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/john-r-bradley-7263_saudi-arabia_egypt-is-now-a-deeply-conservative-count_1158394.jpg) > [“Saudi Arabia, we should remember (as we turn to Indonesia and southern Thailand), in addition to flooding postrevolutionary Egypt with cash and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/saudi-arabia-we-should-remember-as-we-turn-to-indonesia-and-southern/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/john-r-bradley-7263_saudi-arabia_saudi-arabia-we-should-remember-as-we-tu_3071966.jpg) > [“in retrospect Nasser's pan-Arabism seems to have given Arabs little to celebrate, it is certain nothing good can come from the Arab…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/in-retrospect-nasser-s-pan-arabism-seems-to-have-given-arabs-little/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/877/john-r-bradley-7263_israel_in-retrospect-nasser-s-pan-arabism-seems_3119061.jpg) > [“Kelantan, where it has ruled the longest, for instance, bizarrely has segregated supermarket checkout queues, which is unheard-of even in Saudi Arabia.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/kelantan-where-it-has-ruled-the-longest-for-instance-bizarrely-has/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57a/john-r-bradley-7263_saudi-arabia_kelantan-where-it-has-ruled-the-longest_2007017.jpg) > [“The objection to the American empire is not that it is an empire per se, but that, arguably unlike that which was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/the-objection-to-the-american-empire-is-not-that-it-is-an-empire-per/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/john-r-bradley-7263_american-empire_the-objection-to-the-american-empire-is_2977177.jpg) > [“Egypt nevertheless remained socially liberal until the 1970s, when Nasser’s successor, Anwar Al-Sadat, brought the rank-and-file of the Muslim Brotherhood back from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/egypt-nevertheless-remained-socially-liberal-until-the-1970s-when/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ca/john-r-bradley-7263_egypt_egypt-nevertheless-remained-socially-lib_3195766.jpg) > [“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on sigeh to condemn the Shia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-bigot-surfing-the-web-more/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/john-r-bradley-7263_instant-gratificatio_nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-b_268573.jpg) > [“So effective has their propaganda been that an American official was moved to describe the Brotherhood as “a loose network of secular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/so-effective-has-their-propaganda-been-that-an-american-official-was/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/john-r-bradley-7263_islamist_so-effective-has-their-propaganda-been-t_3044963.jpg) > [“Gradual change is in principle, of course, a good idea, certainly in countries where a blatant disregard for civil liberties go hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/gradual-change-is-in-principle-of-course-a-good-idea-certainly-in/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ce/john-r-bradley-7263_censor_gradual-change-is-in-principle-of-course_3116697.jpg) ## Other authors on Saudi arabia ## More by John R. Bradley > [“But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/but-if-nasser-s-gift-to-the-egyptians-was-their-sense-of-pride/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“However, since the Syrian regime is even less transparent than the NGOs, we have no way of knowing that, either.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/however-since-the-syrian-regime-is-even-less-transparent-than-the/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“After the attack, it was again the image of the country, rather than the well-being of those who had been caught up in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/after-the-attack-it-was-again-the-image-of-the-country-rather-than/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“Because Islam is so tightly bound up with Acehnese exceptionalism, it has since the introduction of Islamic law become the territory’s version of political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/because-islam-is-so-tightly-bound-up-with-acehnese-exceptionalism-it/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“After all, there is in more stable, developed countries like the United States and Britain a quantifiably more vicious culture of child abuse. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/after-all-there-is-in-more-stable-developed-countries-like-the-united/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“After that fateful day of July 23, 1952, the "Paris Along the Nile," as Cairo was lovingly renamed by the foreigners who flocked to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/after-that-fateful-day-of-july-23-1952-the-paris-along-the-nile-as/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored location for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/mansour-earned-the-nickname-al-turbiny-from-the-air-conditioned/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“The situation is complicated, though, in a country like Tunisia, where sudden and dramatic change in favor of Western-style democracy at this juncture does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/the-situation-is-complicated-though-in-a-country-like-tunisia-where/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on sigeh to condemn the Shia as debauched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-bigot-surfing-the-web-more/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“despite having a thriving gay prostitution scene, Damascus is unlike just about every other Middle Eastern city I have visited in not having any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/despite-having-a-thriving-gay-prostitution-scene-damascus-is-unlike/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“The Arab Spring has been a dismal failure. All indications are that what comes next will be significantly worse than what existed before, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/the-arab-spring-has-been-a-dismal-failure-all-indications-are-that/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“An investigative report by the BBC in July 2007 found that thousands of young Egyptian men try to enter Europe illegally every year. Sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/an-investigative-report-by-the-bbc-in-july-2007-found-that-thousands/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“A secularist but not an atheist, he used the example of the Prophet, who according to tradition did not fast in Ramadan during wartime,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/a-secularist-but-not-an-atheist-he-used-the-example-of-the-prophet/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“Malaysia, then, offers an example of what happens when socalled moderate Islamists are appeased by the liberal elite. They provide cover for their more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/malaysia-then-offers-an-example-of-what-happens-when-socalled/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) > [“Saudi Arabia’s media and schools spew constant anti-Semitic venom, but the Al-Saud regime loathes Tehran much more than Tel Aviv. In Egypt, for all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/saudi-arabia-s-media-and-schools-spew-constant-anti-semitic-venom-but/) [John R. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-r-bradley/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/saudi-arabia/john-r-bradley/#itemlist", "name": "10 Saudi arabia Quotes By John R. 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It is true that both misyar and urfi differ from sigeh, primarily in that they are not supposed to last for a predetermined period of time (which in most cases they nevertheless do);35 and, again unlike sigeh, they are theoretically required to satisfy all four main conditions for marriage of the Sunni canon: mutual consent, two male witnesses (or two female and one male), some form of public announcement, and the payment of a dowry (although the latter can be symbolic and thus”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John R. Bradley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-bradley/nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-bigot-surfing-the-web-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/john-r-bradley-7263_instant-gratificatio_nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-b_268573.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/john-r-bradley-7263_instant-gratificatio_nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-b_268573.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/john-r-bradley-7263_instant-gratificatio_nothing-gives-your-average-bored-sunni-b_268573.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on…” — John R. Bradley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“So effective has their propaganda been that an American official was moved to describe the Brotherhood as “a loose network of secular groups.”27 This kind of ignorance in the West about Egypt presents the Brotherhood with a tremendous opportunity for media manipulation. Scratch the surface, however, and you find a detailed political platform published in 2006. The president cannot be a woman because the post’s religious and military duties “conflict with her nature, social and other humanitarian roles.” A board of Muslim clerics would oversee the government. The freedom of association guaranteed civil organizations in the West would, in an Islamist Egypt, also be conditional, once again on their adherence to the strictures of Islamic law. Egypt would have a shura (consultative assembly) system, whereby a body of compliant old men nod through whatever the leader, who is assured “veneration,” sees fit, while a Supreme Guide presides benevolently over the personal morality of the masses.28 In Saudi Arabia and Iran, that system exists now.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John R. 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