The Saudis would be deposed within a year of their stopping support of radical mosques and schools. They need SOMEPLACE to send the radical clerics who graduate from their Islamic universities every year.
The Saudis export radical Islam in order to buy time for themselves -- and they are running out of both cash and time.
Radical Islam would collapse without cash support. You think the radical Imams in the mosques work a real job to make money (or COULD work a real job)? You think the congregation could support the mosque and imam by their own tithes?
Take away the money, the money that supports the mosques, the Western welfare money that lets illiterate Third Worlders survive in the West, and radical Islam would collapse quickly.
“The Saudis would be deposed within a year of their stopping support of radical mosques and schools. They need SOMEPLACE to send the radical clerics who graduate from their Islamic universities every year.
Radical Islam would collapse without cash support. You think the radical Imams in the mosques work a real job to make money (or COULD work a real job)? You think the congregation could support the mosque and imam by their own tithes?”
Sounds like a plan. There was a time when we needed saudi oil to keep our economy running so we tolerated Sauid supporting the spread of Wahhabism and OPEC price fixing oil at sky high prices. Our Presidents deferred to and protected them even after their nationals planned and executed 9/11. We fought wars in the M.E. that cost American lives, money and our reputation in the region to protect them.
We no longer need Saudi oil so its time to let the House of Saud come to an end. The only problem is what to use to counter Iran. Iraq under Saddam did that nicely but that is gone thanks to Bush and Oburka.