Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak
Abdul-Rahman bin Nasir al-Barrak is a Saudi Salafi cleric.
In 1994, al-Barrak and other Saudi clerics were mentioned by name and praised by Osama bin Laden for opposing then-Grand Mufti Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz in his.
His website was banned in Saudi Arabia because it was “promoting bold ideas and theses”.Fatwas
Al-Barrak has drawn attention for issuing controversial fatwas, or religious edicts. One such fatwa called for strict gender segregation. The fatwa states, "Whoever allows this mixing... allows forbidden things, and whoever allows them is a kafir and this means defection from Islam... Either he retracts or he must be killed... because he disavows and does not observe the Sharia."
In March 2008, al-Barrak issued a fatwa that two writers for the newspaper Al Riyadh, Abdullah bin Bejad al-Otaibi and Yousef Aba al-Khail, should be tried for apostasy for their "heretical articles" regarding the categorization of "unbelievers" and put to death if they did not repent.
