As I understand it Saudi Arabia is mostly Wahhabi. What is the King to do, totally dis his complete populace? Even as king there are limitations to what you can do.
The government funds schools. It also disburses funds to the extended family, or at the very least provides them with kush well paying jobs.
The Kingdom’s money does finance a variety of problematic things. Does the king approve of them all?
Perhaps he does. I don’t believe so.
We give the Bush family a lot of crap for having a working relationship with the king and the government of Saudi Arabia. I think the families are friends. I don’t see the king being a big hater of America.
On 09/11 there were members of the Royals in the U. S. If the king were puppeteering the events of 09/11, don’t you think he would have had them all out of country?
If he was directing the actions, why would he offer New York a lot of money that Giuliani refused?
I’m just not sold on the level of evil nature folks like to attribute to the Saudi leadership.
Saudi Arabia has a long history of not being an enemy of the United States. In the old Oil Cartel days the Saudi government used to intercede on behalf of the United States so that the Arab states wouldn’t gouge the West for oil.
Saudi Arabia has big investments in the West. If the West crumbles, a significant port of the Saudi wealth dies with it. Attacking New York doesn’t strategically enhance Saudi Arabia’s standing in any way.
Saudi Arabia has more to fear from it’s regional threat Iran that it does the U. S. by a very large margin. Why would it want to neutralize the U. S.? It just doesn’t make sense for it to.
Saudi Arabia was created as a pact between Al-Wahhabb and the Saud family -- the Wahabs wanted to have everything returned to Mo's time and the Sauds wanted an empire
They then inter-married, so the King and the Wahabs are one and the same. He promotes jihadi islam among sunnis the world over
-- he does approve
a pretend friend -- during the 60s and 70s and 80s with their money they funded madrassas in the Moslem world -- look at pictures of Pakistan or Afghanistan in the 60s and 70s and you won't see burkas -- you will see very few veils as well.
The Saudis used the money to spread their philosophy throughout the Sunni world and spent money to sponsor Islam's spread in the West.
If the West crumbles, then Saudi Arabia can control Moslem minds to conquer lands and make them Islam only lands
Saudi Arabia has more to fear from it’s regional threat Iran that it does the U. S. by a very large margin. Why would it want to neutralize the U. S.? It just doesn’t make sense for it to.
It plays the long game -- the world MUST be make Dar-ul-Islam, the land of Islam
The Moslems in the 7th century took over three of the five centers of Christianity -- Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem -- Egypt until the 9th century was the center of Christian thought remember as was Antioch
Then in the 15th they took over Constantinople.
Now their next target is Rome.