Decades of funding fundamentalism and terrorism throughout the world, decades of horrifically repressive misogynist laws, years of war in Yemen, and we're just now realizing that Saudi Arabia is bad. Well, better late than never I guess.
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It’s a grand bargain between House of Saud and clergy. Saud trades social control to clerics in return for no questions asked about political power and control of state economics. It’s been that way for a long time, predates 1979.
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Read a great bio of St. John Philby, Kim’s Dad, who was with Ibn Saud during WWI, when he was just a minor desert sheikh./1
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Even then the military muscle of the Saud family was wacko jihadists who would slaughter whole villages for not being devout enough./2
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Sadly, wacko violent fundamentalism seems baked into Saudi DNA./3
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