Saudi Arabia has little to do with Islam, apart from custodianship of the holy sites at Mecca and Medina. Indeed Saudi Arabia is a symptom of the defeat of Islam.
The Saud monarchy have wasted billions of dollars of oil wealth, to fund the lavish and often decadent lifestyles of thousands belonging to the extended royal family, while the hypocritical Wahhabi (or Salafi if you prefer this name) religious establishment supports the monarchy by imposing a fundamentalist puritanical version of Islam on everyone apart from the royals cocooned in their countless palaces. They then have the gall to invert Islam and claim obedience to royal authority as an Islamic virtue.
The huge wealth of the country comes from beneath the Earth and therefore in Islam belongs to no one, and should be used for God's purposes. It should have been used to develop the Arab world. Instead it has mostly funded hypocrisy at home, and the export of fundamentalist versions of Sunni Islam abroad. This is partly responsible for conflict with Shia Islam, and giving an excuse to racists in the West to indulge in Islamophobia.
The country was only founded in 1932 after tribal wars, that received foreign backing! It would have been part of a larger pan-Arab country long ago, without the support of the US. I am sickened to hear apologists for Saudi Arabia in the West describing it as a proud desert kingdom, while obviously indulging their own private interests, while claiming to be doing so in the name of the pubic in western democracies. It is time to describe Saudi Arabia for what it is, a badge of shame for the Arab world.
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