Jamal Khashoggi Quotes

Jamal Khashoggi

Profession : Author

Birth : October 13, 1958

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

Jamal Khashoggi

I champion a real campaign to tackle the rampant corruption that is draining Saudi resources, both financial and human.

Jamal Khashoggi

In 2004, Lawrence Wright wrote in the 'New Yorker' about 'The Kingdom of Silence,' where a massive sewer project in Jeddah was really a series of manhole covers across the city with no actual pipes underneath. I, as the editor of a major paper at the time, can say that we all knew - and we never reported on it.

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In 2003 and again in 2010, I was fired from my job as editor-in-chief of a 'progressive' paper, Al-Watan. During the years in between, I served as media adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Britain and then the United States.

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I always found it ironic when a Saudi official bashes Islamists, given that Saudi Arabia is the mother of all political Islam - and even describes itself as an Islamic state in its 'Higher Law.'

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I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

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I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.

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I began to feel whatever narrow space I had in Saudi Arabia was getting narrower. I thought it would be better to get out and be safe.

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I often get attacked in Saudi Arabia, but the critics don't ridicule my ideas. There were about 30 or 40 articles attacking me in the Saudi press. Not a single one debated something I wrote. They just ridiculed me as a person. They see me as a traitor who is writing in the foreign press. But discuss what I am writing? They will not.

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I'm not an extremist. And I disagree with Saudis who are calling for regime change and stuff like that.

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I really don't like being in jail.

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I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent narrative.

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The core principle of Wahhabism is anti-diverse.

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That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for the overthrow of the regime, because I know it's not possible and is too risky, and there is no one to overthrow the regime. I'm just calling for reform of the regime.

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The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.

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The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

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Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as a faith. They attacked the values of tolerance and coexistence that Islam preaches.

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Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

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The Iranian state sponsors radicalism.

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I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

Jamal Khashoggi