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The idea that the Saudi royals are feeding their subjects Wahhabism and making them radical rather than singing along to avoid being killed is a joke. The Saudis did radicalize their subjects. They drove out the Hashemites when they conquered Mecca and imposed Wahabbism. And they have spent billions of dollars promoting Wahabbism across the globe.The Sauds were the original patrons of Al-Wahhab himself. I'm not suggesting Arabs would be like Europeans if the Saudis were overthrown, but there's not much daylight between Al-Qaeda and the Saudi government. They have been proxies for them for years.

[The Saudis did radicalize their subjects. They drove out the Hashemites when they conquered Mecca and imposed Wahabbism. And they have spent billions of dollars promoting Wahabbism across the globe.The Sauds were the original patrons of Al-Wahhab himself. I’m not suggesting Arabs would be like Europeans if the Saudis were overthrown, but there’s not much daylight between Al-Qaeda and the Saudi government. They have been proxies for them for years. ]

The Saudi royals exported their nutjobs to minister to foreign lands rather than rebel against them. They didn’t impose Wahhabism on their subjects - they allied with the Wahhabis who made up those subjects. The Hashemites lost despite British support because they were insufficiently devout. And, frankly, the Hashemites in the Arabian peninsula seem to be just unfit to rule. Iraq’s King Faisal II was overthrown and put up against a wall. Jordan’s King Hussein would have been overthrown without American backing during Black September. Bottom line being that the al-Sauds are probably the primary reason that Saudi Arabia did not become a Soviet client state like Egypt, Iraq and Syria during the Cold War.

[They drove out the Hashemites when they conquered Mecca and imposed Wahabbism.]

I don’t think many Freepers know what Hashemite means, so I’ll explain here. A Hashemite is a direct descendant of Muhammad’s clan. Now, if Muslims won’t obey a member of Muhammad’s clan with respect to their interpretation of the Koran, which is why the Hashemites lost in what became Saudi Arabia (which is named after the Saudi royals), it’s pretty clear that they’re marching to the beat of their own drummer, not the edicts of any given man. The Saudi royals allied with the Wahhabis, but also fought elements of the Wahhabis on one significant occasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhwan_revolt