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To me this doesn't read as government support, but support by private interests within the country. The population of KSA is generally more conservative than t
by fossuser 11y ago
To me this doesn't read as government support, but support by private interests within the country. The population of KSA is generally more conservative than the government (though the government is hardly progressive). ISIS is a threat to the stability of KSA and they're definitely not interested in supporting them.
- Salamat 11y agoIdeological links between Saudi Arabia and Isis are tangible, includes beheading and violence against others, when arms shipments to ISIS have been exposed in Turkey, many western media outlets downplayed the incedent as it counters western propaganda. ISIS seems a renegade Wahabi faction but still it is Wahabi as Saudi is, which means it holds the same beliefs of Jihadi Salafism.. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi-arabia-exported-main-source-global-terrorism http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-... and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism... AND http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/saudi-arabia-anxious-ideological-links-isis http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/saudi-a... But nobody nails it as good as Dore Gold in his book in 2003, yet he is in secret talks with Saudi Arabia now: http://www.jcpa.org/hkingdom.htm http://www.jcpa.org/hkingdom.htm