Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe?
“Where in the world is the worst place to be a Christian?” — The Guardian Newspaper had asked in a 2018 article on Christian persecution. It goes without say it listed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as one of the most hostile countries for Christians to live as they literally have to put their lives on the line for their faith. Aside that there is not even a single church in the Kingdom, many Christians are continually arrested, including women and children for the crime of “conducting Christian prayers” and being “in possession of Bibles.” And yet Western oil interests, regrettably, and a quest “stability” in the Gulf region mean Saudi Arabia is embraced as an ally of the so-called Christian West — a profound contradiction that ignores the country’s treatment of Christians and non-Christians alike and direct involvement in jihadist violence around the globe.
The largely unquestioning support of Western governments for the Saudi Arabia tends to ignore altogether not just Christ’s followers who live in the shadow of death, but any individual who raises his or her voice in defense of human rights. According to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Arab human rights organizations, the Saudi regime has jailed hundreds, if not thousands, of peaceful activists, bloggers, lawyers, judges, journalists, and religious scholars since the Arab Spring of 2011. If someone criticizes the Royal family or any of its policies in the press or on Twitter, for example, it is considered a criminal act and can land that person in jail. Establishing a political party, signing a petition calling for political reform, writing or even reading something deemed subversive: all are criminal acts.
This fourth-century church in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, lay buried in sand until it was discovered in the 1980s. It is all that remains of the indigenous Christian communities that flourished for centuries before being wiped out after the region’s conquest by Islam. Saudi authorities do not permit visitors to the site. (Photo: “Western hypocrisy, Saudi Arabia and the persecution of Christians,” October 30, 2018 in Barnabas Fund.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed by Ibn Saud in the 1920s, gaining recognition from the United Kingdom in 1927, even though that British politicians were well aware of the true nature of the regime. Internationally, Saudi Arabia has cultivated an Islamic-Arab national identity for themselves and for others. As custodian of the two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina, the ruling Royal family of Saud has cunningly used its unique position within Islam to leverage strategic influence, obeisance, and power over the global Islamic community. Their foreign policy has been governed almost exclusively by the goal of protecting a wealthy but small and vulnerable state from regional dangers. The Saudis, in addition to funding the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a permanent observer to the United Nations which has structured Islam into an effective proselytizing global entity, have also created the Muslim World League, an NGO with the aim of forming preachers and imams according to the teachings of Wahhabism.
Wahhabism, named after Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), is classified as the most fundamental, the most militant, and the most fanatical version of Islam. One of the main beliefs promoted by al-Wahhab was the takfir doctrine, which compels all Muslims to a strict observance of the sharia. Any act of disobedience immediately calls for penal sanctions, such as amputations and public floggings. Wahhabism essentially provides the theological groundwork for almost every violent jihadist group. It is the catalyst to replace our democratic institutions with fundamental Islamic ones, in addition to being and is the main driving force behind the radicalization of young Muslims in the world today.
Despite some setbacks in the 1920s, it remained the state doctrine and got a new life as a political movement in 1932, when oil was discovered in the Arabian Peninsula. Given that the Saudis needed the support of a united people to develop a more sophisticated diplomatic stance with the West, Wahhabism was forcefully transformed from a movement of revolutionary jihad to an institutional organization of conservative social, political, theological, and religious outreach. In this move, then-King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud was able to sustain his subjects’ fidelity and consolidate his rule. With the subsequent opportune seizing of the petrodollar spigot in the 1970s, the Saudis channeled the Wahhabi current away from Saudi Arabia toward export, thereby diffusing not a violent revolution throughout the Muslim world but a “cultural one.”
In October 2017 the present Saudi Defense Minister (and effective ruler) Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud (MBS) stated,: “We are returning to what we were before — a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world … We will end extremism very soon.” The prince’s plan is built upon Vision 2030, an economic project to harness natural resources, outside of oil, “intended to confirm the kingdom’s status as ‘the heart of the Arab and Islamic worlds, the investment power house, and the hub connecting three continents’.” It is supposed to build infrastructure and create business opportunities for Saudi citizens. Yet MBS has yet to have provided a transparent outline to achieve this. According to skeptics, Vision 2030 seems to be an austerity project that will continue the same pacts made by the royal family with the same constituencies (the rest of the royal family, religious clerics, business elites, tribal leaders, and different social groups) instead of one-on-one deals with its citizens.
Vision 2030, also, does not mention human rights, nor does it outline any kind of meaningful political reform. While the government has recently introduced limited changes, including lifting the driving ban for women—congratulations ladies—the male guardianship system, the main impediment to the realization of women’s rights, remains largely intact. Not to mention, MBS has arrested the women’s rights activists who campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system. Let us also not forget that he initiated the war in Yemen, a four-year-campaign that has killed an estimated 50,000 civilians, in addition, nearly 12 million are reported to be on the verge of starvation.
Saudi Arabia arrests two women’s rights activists (Photo: pixabay.com)
Last August, a Saudi-led coalition warplane bombed a school bus in northern Yemen, killing 51 people, 40 of them children. The regime covered this up blaming “mistakes in compliance to the rules of engagement.” If there is going to be any meaningful change in the Kingdom, America has to take the leading role. President Donald Trump, speaking to the New York Times last year, claimed that, without U.S. support and protection, “Saudi Arabia wouldn’t exist for very long.” The real problem, he continued, was that the Saudis are “a money machine … and yet they don’t reimburse us the way we should be reimbursed.” If he were to pressure them into recognizing and fostering human rights, just as he has given the necessary momentum to the Pro-Life movement in the U.S. to save the unborn, then perhaps Saudi Arabia can become a friend.
N.B. This article was originally published on April 14, 2019 on https://thegreatarchitect.blog.
Mario Alexis Portella is author of Islam: Religion of Peace? – The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up
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The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.
As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003 published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young me n from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islaami Foundation.’ The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “
Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE , in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”
In addition to all this, in the book of the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS, by Robert Spencer on pages 333 through 337.Mr Spencer provides valid information of the subject of “ The Saudi involvement in September 11.”
So with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread , influence and infiltration of the Western nations ,this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of America or any other country of the West.
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Saudi Arabia is no friend of America nor any other Western nations . For example, it has been exposed that “Since 1973 wealth from oil revenues has allowed the Saudis to spread their totalitarian Sunni Wahhabi belief throughout the world by financing Islamic madrassahs in Pakistan and elsewhere.” [1]
Those madrasas are really Islamic mind programming centers which and the outcome of jihad minded Muslim coming out of them and many of them engage in jihad suicide /homicide attacks .
In other words those Muslim who come out those mind programming center s are so thoroughly harmed and damaged in their cognition they are literally “dangerous to self and others.”
Jihad suicide /homicide attacks do lead to the subject that there are Muslim mind control places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique , and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”
Saudi Arabia is no friend to the West
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel
This Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia is not even a friend to its own citizens. Specifically, its female citizens, both girls and women. As revealed by Brigitte Gabriel in her book which has the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED .For on page 180 the reader is informed that “Women are discriminated against and belittled in Saudi Arabia.” Likewise in this same book she exposes on page 172 that “Women in Islam are considered unclean deemed inferior even to dirt.”
The heinous, brutal and cruel Islamic misogyny of Saudi Arabia is seen o that only a few years ago in a girls dorm in Saudi Arabia there was fire . Naturally those girls in the dorm, in great hast escape fled that building which was on fire. The Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia forced those girls to return to inside the dorm that was on fire . The only reason those girls were forced to return was because in their rush to escape the fire they forgot the put on and wear their Islamic face veils. There for all those girls died and cruel horrible death inside that burning dorm
That Saudi Arabia is a murderous and misogynistic regime and a friend to no one.
Dear “Found the Truth”
You have bee posting false teachings of Hinduism on this site.
One of the things you mentioned was that there was slavery in Hinduism. This is 100% false.
You quoted the below (incorrect) translation of a mantra from the Rig Veda:
“A gift of fifty female slaves hath Trasadasyu given me, Purukutsa’s son.” (Rig Veda 8.19.36)
The above translation is from an ignorant Christian (Ralph T.H. Griffith) who does not know Sanskrit properly.
The original Sanskrit of this mantra as it is in the Rig Veda is:
“adan me paurukutsyah pancasatam trasadasyur vadhunam” (Rig Veda 8.19.36, Sanskrit)
The correct translation of the above Sanskrit to English is as follows:
“Paurukutsa Trasadasyu has give me five hundred brides”. (Rig Veda 8.19.36, English)
Anyone can search in the Sanskrit to English dictionary and verify the correct translation.
Jesus did teach his followers to be truthful. Clearly ‘Found the Truth’ is not a follower of Jesus, just a liar. Jesus also taught his followers to love your neighbors, not to insult the neighbors.