This alliance with the West and the influx of enormous oil revenues since the 1970s have allowed Saudi Arabia to export its brand of Sunni Islam, named Wahhabism after its founder Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, encouraging the homogenization of Islamic practices around the world after the model of the Wahhabiya. Known for its rejection of pre-Islamic history, visitation of tombs, the mixing of men and women, its zeal to purify Islam from allegedly deviant practices (such as Sufism and Shiism) and its disdain for other religions, the Wahhabiya was a puritan movement that gave religious legitimacy to the conquests of the Al Saud.…
The key ideological difference between ISIS and the early Saudi-Wahhabi movement is that the Islamic State wants to establish a caliphate, and regards monarchy as an un-Islamic form of government. Frightened by this challenge, which the Gulf states helped to create, Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its alliance with the conservative Wahhabi religious forces in the country.
But in ISIS, Saudi Arabia now has a foe that is so close to its own religious interpretation of Islam, that Saudi Arabia can not be seen to be fighting ISIS very strongly because it would undermine its authority at home. And so the West’s support for Middle East dictatorships continues to fuel the flames that have given rise to Al Qaeda and ISIS, despite a growing awareness that these alliances are a double-edged sword.Nothing about actual support for ISIS and other jihadi groups coming from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other fundamentalist Sunni states and admission of this by key US officials, however.
Red Pill Times
When the US supports Saudi Arabia, it is also supporting ISIS
Toby Matthiesen | senior research fellow in the international relations of the Middle East at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Originally appeared at The New York Times
NEO
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
Originally appeared at The New York Times
NEO
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
F. William Engdahl
Not just KSA.
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The leader of the group "Jabhat al-Nusra", the Emir, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, in an interview aired by Arab TV channel Orient News, has revealed Turkey's plans to create so-called "security zone" in Northern Syria. The leader of the militants, whose face was hidden from cameras, directly accused Erdogan's regime of creating a buffer zone " which will not weaken, but will strengthen ISIS". This was reported by "Russian spring".Jabhat al-Nusra is reputedely an Al Qaeda affiliate.
"Turkey will allow ISIS to further expand its influence in the areas around the border", - said the leader of the militants.Ankara, according to Abu Muhammed, "tends to have preference to attack Kurdish forces, and chooses to not fight with ISIS in Northern Syria".
Leader of the Nusrats: "Erdogan is strengthening ISIS"
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Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
NATO should kick out Turkey and replace with Russia... More in common imo...
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ReplyDeleteThat's what Europe should do.
NATO shouldn't exist to begin with, there is no purpose to it.
ReplyDeleteAlso remember that the genius at the EU wanted Turkey in...
Why not add China while we're at it?
ReplyDeleteAdd the entire world and ensure world peace!
It's such a wonderful thing that the US government has a fiat money system so that its gargantuan military complex will never be "revenue constrained".
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Well, Bob what you don't understand is that the gargantuan military exists because there is a free market for arms and war and "fiat money" was created to serve that market. Unrestricted markets means unrestricted militarization to defend unlimited primitive accumulation. Liberalism is the cause of all of the problems the modernity.
ReplyDeletePeople especially merchants need less "freedom."