Ahmadinejad calls for purge of liberal teachers

CNEWS ^ | September 5, 2006 | NASSER KARIMI

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He also said sympathy with the radical Islamist movement was far higher than the government was prepared to admit.

"The real danger facing the Saudi state -- unlike other societies that have faced terrorist incidents -- is the presence of wide circles of sympathy for the 'deviant group' among different groups of citizens," Bin Othaymeen wrote.

Most analysts say the reasons for militancy in Saudi Arabia lie in institutionalised anti-Westernism in the country's austere Wahhabi form of Islam and the education system.

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