The Islamic Fiqh Academy of Jedda is one of the most influential educational institutions in the Muslim world for shariah scholars.

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Since then, SBG has had only one sizable project: for the royal family, to connect Jedda to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

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What makes all this particularly worrying is that the Obama administration is currently helping the Saudis and the multinational lobby they host in Jedda, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a longstanding campaign to criminalize expression that offends Muslims.

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