 He also pointed out that the Kingdom's religious scholars ‘have to declare jihad against those deviants and to fully support it, as those who keep silent about the truth are mute devils".He further argued that religious fighters operating inside the kingdom should be “vanquished” the way “King Abdul Aziz did at the Battle of Al Sabla [in 1929].”

Majed Garoub, the head of the Jeddah lawyers’ committee, in three articles published in "Al Watan" in the period of May–June 2010, called for the adoption of certain measures against domestic violence.On 8 June 2010, "Al Watan" published a story about the religious police entering a woman's flat after midnight in the Fahd neighbourhood of Najran without apparent cause two days earlier.