Overview:

• Sunni Islam is the state denomination.

• There is no mechanism for the registering or recognising of non-Islamic groups, organisations, or belief systems; even some Islamic groups, such as Ahmadis, Sufis and Shias, are either restricted or completely prohibited.

• Non-Sunni Muslims may gain a degree of acknowledgement from the state to practice but this in no way equates to the level of recognition maintained by the state-sponsored form of Sunni Islam called Wahhabism.

• Significant control is exerted over Muslim clerics due to the state’s imposition of its own interpretation of Islam.

• Terminal censorship of non-Islamic thought and belief permeates the digital landscape.

Positive elements:

• Nil.

Recommendations:

• Complete dismantlement of the present apparatus of laws persecuting non-Muslims and non-Islamic religious activity.

• Establish a recognition system that is inclusive of all belief systems and is able to provide both existential recognition and legal registration.

• Revoke the present hegemony of the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam that no only subjugates non-Wahhabi forms of Islam as well as all non-Islamic belief systems.