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Saudi Arabia Takes Steps to Crack Down on Religious Hate Speech.

Authors :
Nereim, Vivian
Source :
Bloomberg.com; 8/15/2017, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Kingdom criticized as promoting intolerant strain of Islam Saudi Arabia summoned a group of Twitter users this week in an effort to crack down on hate speech, the government's Center for International Communication said. The use of derogatory language to describe minority Shiite Muslims, Jews and Christians is common among some Saudi religious clerics and social media users. [Extracted from the article]

Details

Language :
English
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Bloomberg.com
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
140798322