Follow the (Saudi) money: can a small Muslim community in Cambodia resist being pulled toward Wahhabism?
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by Thrupkaew, Noy
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HEAD NORTH OUT OF PHNOM PENH, AND WITHIN A FEW miles the cacophonous traffic of Cambodia's capital gives way to herds of oxen and water buffalo, their shoulder blades rolling underneath their hides. As you travel, the riverside restaurants--frequented by well-off Khmers and thick with neon lights and the sound of karaoke--grow fewer and farther. Soon there is nothing but rice fields, the great brown swath of the Mekong River; and then, rising out of the flat landscape with surprising suddenness, an onion-shaped dome.
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