Omar if he were true to his heart and mind would take a vow not to ever set his foot in the evil state of saudi arabia, a state that openly practices religious apartheid. Omar Abdullah is Indian CM of J & K State. (News that Indian media censored in February 2009)
If there is any society in the world which is least productive and most harmful it is the saudi one.
Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Duplicity (al taquiya) is proven. It Calls Islamic Terrorism Cancer after Feeding It
saudi nation spawned islam, an ideology that uses terror in the name of God and sanctions stealing and plunder. the only historical contribution of saudi arabia to civilisation has been the burkha.
They have funed not just deoband, but also multitude of mosques and madrasas that spew hatred and venom, all in the name of God. They have funded pakistan and lashkar-e-toiba.
Apart from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia is the other major leg on which terror stands. Dismemberment of Saudi Arabia is in the best interests of world and in the interests of stopping islamic terrorism. Oil producing regions should be given to Shias with an international guarantee for its security. Mecca and Medina should be handed over to Hashemite control, the legitimate guardians of the sites. Let the sunni sheikhs work hard rather than stealing others’ resources and effort.
There is an inverse correlation between the price of oil and the price of freedom, as has been pointed out by American commentator Thomas Friedman. An oil-price spike not only spurs greater transfer of wealth to the oil-exporting nations, but also undercuts the spread of freedom by instilling or strengthening authoritarianism and arming the Gulf states with greater clout to fund fundamentalism and extremism elsewhere.
Soaring wealth, coupled with their control over the worlds most-bountiful oil resources, gives these weak, feudal, internally-troubled sheikhdoms a disproportionate clout in world affairs — a heft they have misused.
After the 1970s oil-price shocks opened the flow of rising revenues, several sheikhdoms began funnelling some of their earnings to the promotion of Wahhabi Islam, including the establishment of jihad-spouting madrassas overseas. While islam has an intolerwant kernal, it is not an accident that the rise of Islamic conservatism and extremism — from Morocco and Sudan to Malaysia and Indonesia — began from the 1980s with the aid of petrodollars.
Take the Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba. Although it was established as a front organization of the Pakistani intelligence to bleed India, this Punjabi-dominated outfit has long been fattened with Saudi petrodollars. As Husain Haqqani, now Pakistans ambassador in Washington, put it in a 2005 article, the Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Wahhabist group, backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani intelligence services, that targets India, Israel and the US as existential enemies of Islam.
From the United Arab Emirates sheltering of international fugitives and terrorism-financing conduit role to Saudi Arabias continued bankrolling of jihadist groups overseas, the oil sheikhdoms have shown contempt for international norms. Their post-9/11 promises to clean up their alleged philanthropic acts have not been fully honoured.
This state of affairs is simply intolerable. Can the security of secular, pluralistic states be allowed to be undermined by despots whose wealth and power flow from the gigantic oil reserves on which they sit, often by usurping the resources of minorities?
Saudi Wahhabi wealth has been built from Shiite resources. The two million Shiites of Saudi Arabia may constitute only up to 15 per cent of the national population. But they dominate the oases of Qatif and al-Hasa in the Eastern Province, the source of 90 per cent of Saudi oil production and the seat of the worlds greatest oil reserves. In Iraq, too, the oil resources are concentrated in non-Sunni areas. The US occupation has helped end, however inadvertently, the Iraqi Sunni doMination of the majority Shiite population.
Take another Sunni-governed oil sheikhdom, Bahrain, where the Shiites form up to 75 per cent of the population. The Bahraini Sunni elites have cosy tribal affiliations with the Saudi elite (going to the extent of granting Bahraini citizenship to Saudi Sunnis on demand) but maintain a distance from the majority Shiite population at home.
Shiites have been suppressed and treated as second-class citizens in a number of societies since the time the Prophets grandson, Hussein, was beheaded by Sunnis in A.D. 656. Today, there is a Shiite reawakening across West Asia, with Jordans King Abdullah II even raising the spectre of a Shiite crescent stretching from Iran and Iraq to Syria and Lebanon. Sunni-run sheikhdoms plus Iran hold some two-thirds of the global oil reserves and that Saudi Arabia alone is projected by 2025 to produce more oil than Africa and the Caspian Sea basin combined.
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