re: #199 Dr Lizardo

That’s encouraging to see. He’s pushing back at the hardcore clerics.

Saudi Arabia went really ultra-conservative after the 1979 Masjid al-Haraam incident. It looks like the Crown Prince has realized that the King at that time drew the wrong conclusions - instead of liberalizing further, he went in the opposite direction and made the country even more conservative than it already was.

Don’t forget the Iranian Revolution either.