The question is: Are the Salafists being arrested?
The Saudi Royal family have been funding the jihad for many generations.It would help the entire world if the House of Saud was purges of Salafists and Wahabi.
But not holding breath. This could be a smack down of those who want to liberate Saudi women.
Looks that way. The Wahabi and the Sauds have been at loggerheads over power in the kingdom for a long time. Maybe the Sauds have decided if they want islam to survive, they need to modernise. It's a question of what is the most powerful, allah or income.
I'm betting on the money. The Wahabi doctrine is unproductive, it's detrimental to the future of Saudi Arabia.
“...The latter remark hints that Mohammed Bin Salman won’t allow the Kingdom’s traditional Wahhabi socio-cultural “regulations” to be enforced there, which goes along with his other headline-grabbing statement during the event when he said that Saudi Arabia will “return…to moderate Islam” and “swiftly deal a blow to extremist ideologies”. Quite clearly, as analyzed in the author’s earlier piece this month about Saudi Arabia’s shifting grand strategy, a “deep state” conflict is indeed being fought in the country between its monarchic and clerical factions, with the former poised to carry out a “soft coup” against the latter as it seeks to “modernize” the country. This will surely result in some behind-the-scenes tumult in the coming future, if not overt destabilization, but the point of the present article isn’t to dwell too much on that tangent...”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3599676/posts
Trump Tells Saudi King That He Supports Modernization Drive
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“The king and crown prince’s recent public statements regarding the need to build a moderate, peaceful and tolerant region are essential to ensuring a hopeful future for the Saudi people, to curtailing terrorist funding, and to defeating radical ideology — once and for all — so the world can be safe from its evil,” the White House said in the statement.
The White House statement made no mention of the scores of arrests, including that of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire investor who has held stakes in an array of Western companies, including the News Corporation, Citigroup and Twitter. Prince Mohammed, who has already sidelined rivals to the throne, is viewed as the mastermind behind the crackdown.
Prince Alwaleed sparred with Mr. Trump on Twitter during the presidential election, referring to him as a “disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America.” Mr. Trump fired back, also on Twitter, that he was a “dopey prince” trying to “control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-arrests.html