Abedaslam Ayesh

Oman, a nation of about three million people experienced difficulty to open the doors to modernity, especially to education, without also fostering a degree of cynicism about authority and a desire for more freedom.
There is virtually no civil society in Oman; citizen organizations are all affiliated with the government. The university does not have a political science department. Only the sultan has the power to approve laws.
A recently amended law allows the government to prosecute anyone associated with a Web site or blog that posts anything objectionable, not just the writer.
A blogger was sentenced last month to 10 days in jail after posting on a public forum a confidential government document that called for secretly forcing a call-in radio show to stop live broadcasts and to record the show, so the government could censor the comments.
Sunglasses were banned, along with bicycles and radios, as Western conventions.
I believe the government will eventually accept the US hegemonic ideology "modernization" it's just a matter of time.