[Dialup Llama]

It's hard to imagine an article like this being written in Suadi! The author is essentially criticizing a brand of Islam as totalitarian and distorted... the same brand Saudi follows and promotes.

[BlackVeil]

As you say, he is not in the Saudi style. Amir Taheri, (if he is the same one) has also published a book, back in the 1980s, and writes articles on terrorism. He is a sort of Islamic conservative of the Fuard Ajami school. I think he is a Lebanese (not sure.)