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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (1) Full Focus Editor's choice A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Full Article Follow Reuters Nervous Saudis ponder whether to join protests Tweet Share this Link this By Ulf Laessing RIYADH (Reuters) - Sitting in front of a Bedouin-style tent in a suburb of the Saudi capital, Said ponders aloud whether to risk prison by joining mass protests on Friday in the conservative kingdom. "I should really go but don't... Email Print Related Topics World » Demonstrators gather during a protest in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, March 9, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Ulf Laessing RIYADH | Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:48am EST RIYADH (Reuters) - Sitting in front of a Bedouin-style tent in a suburb of the Saudi capital, Said ponders aloud whether to risk prison by joining mass protests on Friday in the conservative kingdom. "I should really go but don't know," the young man said, meeting fellow pro-democracy activists at a weekly salon-style gathering where they discuss politics and reform. "I probably won't go. Several male family members are in jail so my family needs me," he added. He was working with other activists on a petition to King Abdullah to release prisoners they say are held without trial. Like many other Saudis he preferred to give only his first name, fearing reprisals after repeated warnings from the government of the Sunni Muslim-dominated state over the past week that protests, deemed "un-Islamic," will not be tolerated. More than 32,000 people have backed a call on social networking site Facebook to hold two protests this month. The first is planned for Friday. The key U.S. ally has so far avoided unrest of the kind that toppled rulers in Egypt or Tunisia and which has spread to other Gulf countries, but dissent has built up in the top oil exporter, an absolute monarchy without an elected parliament or political parties. Whether dissent expressed via the relative anonymity of social media will translate into street protests in the Saudi capital or its second city Jeddah is unclear. EXPERIMENT "I am not so sure much will happen Friday. We just don't know," said Mohammed al-Qahtani, head of the Saudi Civil And Political Rights Association, which meets once a week to work out opposition strategies. "It's like an experiment." For almost two years the opposition group has been gathering up petitions and issuing anti-government statements, drawing a crowd of up to 50 people at its weekly diwan, a traditional meeting or salon. A loose coalition of liberals, rights activists, moderate Sunni Islamists and Shi'ite Muslims has called for political reforms in a country which, its rulers claim, has no need of protests or parties, as an Islamic state applying sharia law. In oil-rich Eastern Province, Shi'ites have long complained of marginalization and have staged small demonstrations for almost three weeks. Now all eyes are on Riyadh, with some analysts worrying oil prices could hit $200 a barrel if large protests hit the kingdom. Current prices are around $115. Riyadh, in the conservative heartland, has seen no protests of note in many years, and has few Shi'ite residents. But the government fears that unrest in Bahrain, where Shi'ites are in the majority will embolden not only Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite minority but its Sunnis too. "I think it would be significant if protests hit Riyadh since Shi'ites (in the east) have often taken to the streets. Riyadh would be different," a Gulf-based diplomat said. 1 2 Next World Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (1) goldman1234 wrote: I’d like to know exactly “how” they know 32,000 people on facebook are planning a protest and who “exactly they are” who is counting and to whom they give out these facebookers “INFO” too.Who’s is watching and monitoring the activities of facebook?? The CIA? The FBI? The NSA? Seems “they know to much about the private lives of peole and whom they talk with on a grand scale..Seems facebook is a new quasi- government front for identification of “terrorist” groups on the rise like Tea baggers. what’s next.they show up on your doorstep with guns drawn ready to arrest you IF you buck their scam government? Saudi’s are repressed people who should all own guns to protect their freedom of speech and movement, choice of religion, choice of clothing , choice of words,choice of whether they want to have freedom of expression, choice of whom they want to have sex with, marrried or not choice of leaving their ball and chain lives. Those repressors are and should be confronted at all levels with all weapons at their disposal… In the U.S. the same applies.When are the U.S. citizens going to march on Washington , guns in hand and take this country back from the croooks who run it..This world is due to a major war and when breaks out, you have better be ready for survival mode. The dictators including America DO NOT OWN YOU!!..You and America are both in the same boat , a sinking ship along with Europe and my guess is that we will see and need WW III soooner than later .A civil war of international proportions is well over due. I think we are underway …The oil market is manipulated by governements to collect revenue,via the banks who are “the government” while the fat cat banksters are governement employed CIA operatives whose job is to follow the money flows of foreign governmemts. THe U.S.G. is as guilty as the suns rises and sets , involved in destabilization of other governemnts and DO NOT think they have not planned the issues facing the middle east 5 years ago in their Washington “think tanks” , aka the CIA. 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