As Saudi society liberalizes, it reckons with hard-line past

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Mon, 2019-05-13 02:23

RIYADH: The Islamist takeover of Makkah’s Grand Mosque in 1979 has been turned into a television drama, spotlighting a controversial narrative Saudi Arabia is using to support social changes once deemed un-Islamic.
A trailer for “Al-Asouf,” meaning “winds of change” in Arabic, features explosions and firefights inside the holiest site in Islam, which Juhaiman Al-Otaibi and his radical followers occupied for two weeks.