bingo. exactamundo. bullseye.
hell i got the same thing from a Bangladeshi acquaintance when he talked about the devils coming to Bangladesh with their money and forced ideology. He chafes at and ridicules the local imans who don the traditional arab garb of flowing robes and headress. Says it has -0- practicality considering the climate in Bangladesh vs that in Arabia. But they tow the line because the Saudis have the money. Our money. We are such IDIOTS!
furthermore you see it everyday. compare the average american muslim today to one 25 years ago. Today they are more conservative, practice their faith more radically (forcing women to cover up for instance) than anything you saw in the past. All because our dear friends, the Saudis have been enforcing their firebrand, cultish version of the faith. these people who are basically disliked by most other muslims because of their history as thieves and worse to the pilgrims forced to travel their land to get to Mecca, these are the ones supposedly more pious, more pure to their God. The worst of the lot and they run the show. The part about teaching a complex political and social ideology is the TRUTH.
we are so screwed.