Saudi core looks to online videos to opposite extremism

Two Saudi boys, one Sunni, another Shiite, pull their desks together and lay corresponding smiling in a classroom.

These scenes were featured in a YouTube video posted online in Nov for a Saudi center, saved underneath an capacity from a late King Abdullah, that is creation a pull on amicable media to opposite Islamist extremism.

Saudi Arabia, one of a world’s many regressive nations, has prolonged been indicted of fueling extremism though Saudi authorities contend they are operative to opposite nonconformist messages, and a Riyadh-based King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue has strong efforts to foster tolerance.

Its latest bid saw 128 entries in a competition that offering 150,000 riyals ($40,000) divided among a 5 best producers of brief films compelling inhabitant togetherness and tolerance, and hostile extremism.

Shiites make adult roughly 10 percent of Saudi Arabia’s race and have prolonged complained of marginalization.

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