I honestly have no idea who they would vote for.
Saudis are a different type; knew a guy from Dubai, living in Prague with his wife, also from Dubai. She never wore a covering or headscarf, drove, went out with her lady friends. About the only difference between Mahmoud and Khadija from everyone else was they didn’t drink, and didn’t eat pork. Oh yeah, they were spectacularly rich, too! His dad’s a sheik if I recall correctly. They were westernized. They both spoke excellent Czech, too, far better than I can muster.
Needless to say, I don’t see that happening in the Kingdom (acting like Westerners), to be honest. At least, not for the next 600 years or so. But then again, my friends were from Dubai, not the KSA.
Yes as you say Dubai is _very_ different.
“they were spectacularly rich”
This fact actually really angers me. Someone I know from college is from the region, and his father has a company who makes millions from the Saudis. So this guy just buys whatever he wants, houses, cars, whatever. They’re not saudi themselves, but still, their money froms from the saudi oil money that we give them. The same oil money they use to fund mosques all over America.
Anything to do with the saudis just makes me mad. We really shouldn’t buy a drop of their nasty oil. Islam is cancer, and we are paying for it to be transplanted into us.