NAYEF IBN ABDUL AZIZ AL-SAUD

The Interior Ministry has “responsibility” for the press in Saudi Arabia. Licenses are needed to publish a newspaper or magazine. The licenses are granted by the Interior Ministry. Editors keep close to Nayef and censor themselves based on his “guidance.” Wahhabism is a violent and fundamentalist version of Islam whose origins lay in Saudi Arabia. Ibn Taimaya was a 14th century Muslim cleric who preached a particularly radical form of Islam.

The Interior Ministry has “responsibility” for the press in Saudi Arabia. Licenses are needed to publish a newspaper or magazine. The licenses are granted by the Interior Ministry. Editors keep close to Nayef and censor themselves based on his “guidance.” Wahhabism is a violent and fundamentalist version of Islam whose origins lay in Saudi Arabia. Ibn Taimaya was a 14th century Muslim cleric who preached a particularly radical form of Islam.