""This (media influence) has played a role in opening up the Arab world and revealing the falseness of some ideologies such as Arab nationalism, the Left and political Islam," he added, listing populist political movements that the Saudi royals have long regarded as threats to their rule." Quite inaccurate. Saudi government never treated political Islam as a threat; it opposes only a branch of it, and not the whole movement that remains at the core of Saudi official ideology. (thanks F.)