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"It took the West being heavily hit by Islamist terrorism for it to appreciate fully the measure of this menace, long camouflaged. Indeed, even as Saudi leaders were shaking hands and smiling at their Western counterparts, they were hosting preachers advocating jihad to the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Mecca for the annual pilgrimage. Today, everyone sees through the facade better."
>See through the facade? WAT? You mean, this is not a religion of peace?
Today, everyone sees through the facade better."
>See through the facade? WAT? You mean, this is not a religion of peace?
reformer Crown Prince Muhammed.
Stripping all your potential rivals of power then shake them down for billions of dollars is not usually considered reform. ROFLOL.
Stripping all your potential rivals of power then shake them down for billions of dollars is not usually considered reform. ROFLOL.
When will madras terrorist training schools and radical Iman terrorist recruiters around the world be shut down? When will cash stop fire hosing out of ksa to terrorist organizations around the world. hahahahahaha.
Stripping all your potential rivals of power then shake them down for billions of dollars is not usually considered reform. ROFLOL.
Actually, it's called a "Transfer of Power" in non-democratic countries. Transfers of Power to You and Your Guys is a necessary precondition before any Transformations are possible.
I'm sorry I somehow missed the answer to the question of when the suadi's will be shutting down their world wide operations of recruiting, training, and financing terrorists. The twelve of never perhaps?
Sure right, Do you actually believe that steaming pile of male bovine feces or are you just trolling? Transformations happen just about zero percent of the time after transfer of power in non democratic countries. But it's different this time because why? Because some new dictator on the block says it's true? it's tue it's tue hahahahahahaha
Getting the hell out of Yemen would be a nice start.
Makes great P.R. and news bites but lets be patient with the celebration until some serious reform shows up.
Strategist saysWe see Iran as a bigger threat than Saudi.
Unfortunately that is a flawed perception when we would be much better off aligning ourselves with Iran but not enough oil in Iran I suppose.
Interesting times - I have a contact on the ground in Saudi so I can check in from time to time to check the progress.
The statement had come against a backdrop of sweeping reforms in Saudi Arabia, which include a re-energized crackdown on hate speech and a pledge by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to “destroy extremism and return to moderate Islam.”
Commenting on this, Rabbi Pinchas says he "wishes Prince Mohammed much success in his quest to define radicalism and bring back reason, moderation and peace to the Middle East.”
Strategist saysWhy do you think we are better off aligning ourselves with Iran? Besides, what makes you think Iran wants to align with us?
No shortage of analysis on the web covering both questions. The House of Saud is not our friend, never was, never will be - ever.
They are more than willing to fight any war any time with any of their enemies as long as it is someone's else blood that is getting spilled and preferably ours since they are inept handlers of the latest military technology and they buy a ton of that shit from us.
No shortage of analysis on the web covering both questions. The House of Saud is not our friend, never was, never will be - ever.
You are still not answering my question. Saudis are scum, but so is Iran. Them hating each other is the best thing that ever happened to us.
Leaving these concerns aside, there is the bigger problem of the valuation methodology itself. In a blunt but very informative story for Bloomberg Gadfly, Liam Denning suggests that Aramco may need crude oil at US$80 a barrel to get the US$2-trillion valuation it claims it has. That’s in addition to making several wild assumptions along the way.
Mohammed bin Salman: After 1979, that's true. We were victims, especially my generation that suffered from this a great deal.
The crown prince traces most of Saudi Arabia's problems to the year 1979, when the Ayatollah Khomeini established an Islamic theocracy next door in Iran. The same year, religious extremists in Saudi Arabia took over Islam's holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. In order to appease their own religious radicals, the Saudis began clamping down and segregating women from everyday life
Mohammed bin Salman: The amount exceeds $100 billion, but the real objective was not this amount or any other amount. The idea is not to get money, but to punish the corrupt and send a clear signal that whoever engages in corrupt deals will face the law.
"It took the West being heavily hit by Islamist terrorism for it to appreciate fully the measure of this menace, long camouflaged. Indeed, even as Saudi leaders were shaking hands and smiling at their Western counterparts, they were hosting preachers advocating jihad to the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Mecca for the annual pilgrimage. Today, everyone sees through the facade better."
>See through the facade? WAT? You mean, this is not a religion of peace?
#religion