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March 23, 2017

Oman Has Stayed Out of the Middle East’s Conflicts and Is Not Home to Jihadists. Why?

Enlightened despotism has served it well.

With its neighbor Yemen enmeshed in a bloody civil war that has drawn in other nearby countries, with the regional troublemaker Iran situated just across the narrow Gulf of Oman, and with another neighbor, Saudi Arabia, facing a host of problems, the gulf nation has remained, in Daniel Pipes’s words, “an oasis of calm.” There have been no terror attacks, and not a single Omani has joined Islamic State. Pipes tries to explain this “most surprising country in the Middle East”:

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March 23, 2017

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    Enlightened despotism has served it well.