{"id":19163,"date":"2012-05-13T09:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=19163"},"modified":"2012-05-13T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T05:58:43","slug":"leading-conservative-sacked-by-saudi-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/region\/gcc\/saudi-arabia\/leading-conservative-sacked-by-saudi-king\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sacked&#8217;: Saudi King &#8216;Had Enough&#8217; of Top Conservative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/05\/leading-conservative-sacked-by-saudi-king\/advisor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19164\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19164\" title=\"advisor\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/advisor-e1336888390713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/advisor-e1336888390713.jpg 635w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/advisor-e1336888390713-634x324.jpg 634w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/advisor-e1336888390713-370x190.jpg 370w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/advisor-e1336888390713-270x138.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BBC engages in a bit of plausible tea-leaf reading. It reports that Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah has relieved Sheikh Abdelmohsen al-Obeikan \u2013 one of the more conservative religious sheiks \u2013 of his position as adviser to the royal cabinet. The article suggests that this is because al-Obeikan was getting too loud with positions contrary to those of the King, particularly when it came to the proper role of women in Saudi society.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Obeikan became notorious when, a few years ago, he suggested that a way to permit men and women to work in the same offices would be for the women to share breast milk with the males in the office. This would create a relationship under Islamic standards, by which the men became family members of the women and therefore be \u2018safe\u2019 to be in the same location. His suggestion drew cries of disgust and ridicule among both foreign audiences and Saudis alike.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-18042467\"><strong>Saudi King Abdullah sacks conservative adviser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saudi King Abdullah has sacked one of his most hardline advisers, Sheikh Abdelmohsen al-Obeikan.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Obeikan, who was an adviser to the royal cabinet, opposed moves to relax gender segregation.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal comes shortly after Sheikh Obeikan attacked plans by \u201cinfluential people to corrupt Muslim society by trying to change the natural status of women\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi officials did not give a reason for Sheikh Obeikan\u2019s departure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Saudi Gazette<\/em> runs only a brief report from the Saudi Press Agency stating that al-Obeikan had been relieved of his duties. <em>Arab News<\/em> runs a somewhat longer, but no more informative <a href=\"http:\/\/arabnews.com\/saudiarabia\/article632626.ece\"><strong>article<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROSSROADS ARABIA: He&#8217;s been getting a bit loud recently with positions contrary to those of the King. Time to go.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":19164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,83,60,482,10],"tags":[2224,2064,364,18275,3882,2890,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}