Cube-Shaped Conspiracies Won’t Stop Saudi Reforms – OpEd

By Faisal J. Abbas*

In July 2006, a very distressing story in Arabic was being shared across what was then known as the Electronic Muntadayat (Arabic for “web forums,” the ancestor of modern social media).

The story went as follows: Someone is deliberately mocking Islam by building another Kaaba in New York, only the...