Today I rest my case lah. I am going to leave this post up here for a while and take the weekend off.
Here is a shocker of a headline. Just to make sure, I screen-shotted THREE different online newspapers for the same headline.
The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman has told the Washington Post that Salafism aka Wahhabism was a tool propagated by the West to fight Communism and the Cold War. It had nothing to do with Islam. It was pure politics.
Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
And here is the news that came with these headlines :
Saudi Crown Prince's shocking revelation about “Wahhabism”
allies instructed Saudi Arabia during Cold War Era
spread Wahhabism cos West ask Riyadh to counter Soviets
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Thurs
West urged Saudis to invest in mosques, madrassas o'seas during Cold War
to prevent encroachment in Muslim countries by Soviet Union
successive Saudi govts lost track of effort
successive Saudi govts lost track of effort
saying “we have to get it all back”
funding now comes mostly from Saudi “foundations”
Wahhabism main source of global te _ _ _r_sm
become increasingly influential because of Saudi money
because of Saudi's central influence as protector of Mecca
crown prince’s 75-minute interview with US newspaper on March 22
crown prince’s 75-minute interview with US newspaper on March 22
he also touched on Islam and his interpretation of religion
“Islam is sensible, simple, people are trying to hijack it”
“Islam is sensible, simple, people are trying to hijack it”
My comments : It had nothing to do with Islam. The US wanted some extreme ideology to counter the communist Soviet Union in the Islamic countries. The Soviets were atheists. Salafism / Wahhabism is an extremist ideology full of head chopping zeal against communists, atheists and Shias. Plus the main proponents of Salafism / Wahhabism ie the Saudis had tons of oil money and wanted to buy legitimacy as the guradians of the two holy cities. So the Americans gave them an avenue to buy that legitimacy. Spend your money to spread Salafism / Wahabism.
Then when the Ayatollahs took over Iran, Salafism / Wahabism came in handy as a political tool to fight the Ayatollahs as well. Two birds with one stone.
As far as the Saudis were concerned, it had nothing to do with Islam. To them, it was all just politics. The politics of survival. That is what the Saudi Crown Prince is saying.
- West urged Saudis to invest in mosques, madrassas o'seas during Cold War
- to prevent encroachment in Muslim countries by Soviet Union
And now since the Saudis are fighting for their survival again, it is all politics again. The Crown Prince is now saying :
- he also touched on Islam and his interpretation of religion
- “Islam is sensible, simple, people are trying to hijack it”
- saying “we have to get it all back”
The Saudis are now saying 'Islam has been hijacked'.
By who? By the Salafis / Wahabis.
Salafism / Wahabism has become a sat_nic monster.
Now the same West is telling the Saudis 'dump Salafism'
So Saudi Arabia will be dumping Salafism / Wahhabism.
So what will become of the millions of Saudi b_tt kissers all over the world? All the confused table cloths and skull caps who have been fed Saudi Wahabi rhetoric all these years?
The table cloth is King Salman, father of Crown Prince Muhammad
The Saudis have fooled a considerable number of people around the world with their Salafism / Wahabism. Even the Chinese can be fooled by the Arabs. Really strange.
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