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But how then will we bring democracy to the Middle East?

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Saudis spread Wahhabism everywhere. That’s one of the reasons why they exist in the first place. Here’s a short tidbit of history for you. The first Saudi civil war began when the monarchy drew the borders with the Brits. The monarchy agreed to respect them but the extremists, army officers mostly, hated this. They didn’t recognize the borders, and were angry that they couldn’t expand their One True Faith into Jordan, Iraq, the UAE….etc.

So they turned on the monarchy, calling it heretical. The rebels though hated ”western” inventions like guns and used horses and swords. The Saudis and the loyalists had little problems using British made machine guns. They won.

But then in 79, things changed again with the Khomeinist revolution in Iran. In a coup , fanatics, army officers mostly yet again , occupied the holy mosque in Mecca and tried to incite to rebellion like Khomeini did. Yet again, these people used the same pretext, calling the monarchy heretical. King Faisal was even killed later by a relative sympathetic to those people.

The monarchy, asked for a fatwa from the clergy, they needed to assault the holy mosque after all. What terrified them was that the clergy, while they did obey, they didn’t condemn the rebels. that terrified them.

A hereditary monarchy is un-islamic, all Sunni scholars agree. The Wahhabist clergy, agreed with the Khomeinist system of rule. If even that one is Islamic is debatable, regardless it was/is very anti-monarchy.

This resembles to what the Ummayids did when they took over the caliphate and turned it into a hereditary monarchy. There were fanatics back then too. Kawarji, they were called, or ”deviants” they even assassinated the 4th Caliph Ali, for negotiating with Muawiyah.

In the chaos of it all the Radicals gained ever more power. So the new Caliph had a brilliant idea and sent them to the border regions. Central Asia, Anatolia, North Africa and from there to Andalusia. He sent them on a ”holy” conquest to ”spread Islam”.

The truth however is that he wanted them as far away from Damascus, the Ummaiyd capital as possible.

The Saudi monarchy acts very much the same today. They must wage Jihad in the border regions, or they’ll have to fight in Riyadh. So the Americans and the Brits are selling high-grade weapons to a gouvernment which is held hostage by Islamic extremists. What happens when they decide to shoot their hostage ? I don’t think they have given it any thought.

But what do I know ? Trump just called them a stabilizing force in the region. And that man’s a fucking genius 🙂

http://www.balkanspost.com/article/116/saudi-arabia-funds-spread-of-wahhabism-in-kosovo

http://www.balkanspost.com/article/116/saudi-arabia-funds-spread-of-wahhabism-in-kosovo