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“But there is clearly also something strategically more significant going on. While many of the officials arrested over the weekend threaten Mohammed’s power, they aren’t the only ones that he has purged. In September Mohammed arrested some 30 senior Wahhabist clerics and intellectuals. And Saturday’s arrest of the princes, cabinet ministers and business leaders was followed up by further arrests of senior Wahhabist clerics.
At the same time, Mohammed has been promoting clerics who espouse tolerance for other religions, including Judaism and Christianity. He has removed the Saudi religious police’s power to conduct arrests and he has taken seemingly credible steps to finally lift the kingdom-wide prohibition on women driving. “
You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Saudi prince. There’s hundreds of ‘em.
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Hopefully the ties with radicals are irretrievably broken. The groundwork is being laid for the Iranian people to finally join the world.
Small wonder we have the problems we have.
Their countrymen fly airplanes into our buildings while we count women driving cars as great success.
The Religion of Peace finally emerging?
Hopefully but doubtfully. But a good trend nevertheless.
One wonders how much Trump influence we are witnessing.
Saudi money was behind the disintegration of Somalia in the late 80s.
Not that it took much of a push.
The collapse in the price of oil is having all sorts of interesting effects, almost all of them good.
Have you hugged a Fracker today?
I think he is maybe trying to eliminate the internal money-bags that would otherwise try to secretly fund the most extreme radical Wahabi clergy, and eventually ISIS types who would try to launch a civil war against him, the more “modern” he gets.
I think he is maybe trying to preempt a civil war that could evolve if he does not act first.
So Caroline Glick perceives a “Duty to Act”?
Who has the duty, and what is the action?
Very good article. Thanks for posting.
Right now, I’m cheering for the Saudi crown prince who is behind these purges. His father, King Salman, is reportedly in the early stages of dementia, and Muhammad bin Salman is apparently in the driver’s seat. If he can successfully crack down on the fundamentalist clerics and on his many cousins and the other Saudi businessmen who funnel money into Islamic madrassas all over the world, he’ll be doing both his own nation and the rest of the world a huge favor.
Very good article which explains a lot of the activity going on in Saudi Arabia today.
Hopefully the dynamic changes will continue