Jamal Khashoggi

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I really don't like being in jail.
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The core principle of Wahhabism is anti-diverse.
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The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.
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That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for the overthrow of the regime, because I know it's not possible and is too risky, and there is no one to overthrow the regime. I'm just calling for reform of the regime.
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The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.
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The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.
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Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as a faith. They attacked the values of tolerance and coexistence that Islam preaches.
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Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.
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Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.
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The Iranian state sponsors radicalism.
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The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.
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The condition that the Taliban part with al Qaeda is not just a condition, it is an objective. We must convince them that al Qaeda ideology and dogma will not help them.
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I'm 60 years old, and I want to enjoy life, and I want to be free to speak for my country.
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I would like to see evolution in my country, not revolution. It is much better for us to work together with the government to transform Saudi Arabia for the future.
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It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout the Middle East.
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Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada, Europe.
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More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.
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Sometimes, I myself, even though I'm in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.
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I don't want anything to affect my freedom, and we don't want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.
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To destroy the Islamic State, you have to fix Syria. You have to look at the reasons that created the Islamic State. This is a huge task.
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The international community should pressure Iran to get the Houthis to agree to some peaceful understanding in Yemen. But at the same time, Saudi Arabia also needs to believe truly in democracy for Yemen.
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It should be a known fact that the Arabs never had a problem with anti-Semitism, but we need to state that over and over again.
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There are many signs that the Egyptians are prioritising their relations with the Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia, over their relations with Iran.
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In the event of war, probably Saudi Arabia will facilitate some certain logistics to make the operation easier for the United States, but actually, the United States does not need Saudi territories to launch a war against Iraq.
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