Saudi Religious Police Say New Plan Works To Combat Deviant Extremist Ideology

According to a report yesterday by Asharq Alawsat, the Director of Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice told a meeting of branch directors in Khobar Saturday that the Commission has begun to implement a plan to combat deviant extremist and hard-line ideology. The director, Dr.Abdul Aziz al-Humain said that "the CPVPV has played a supporting role in the efforts exerted by the Interior Ministry's security apparatus…and CPVPV members are participating in the Munasaha rehabilitation program for followers of deviant ideology...."