(Mods - if this contravenes the closing of the specific thread about the murder of David Amess, please delete, but it's meant to be a wider look at the role the Saudi dictatorship plays in the promotion of extremism and how it's brushed under the carpet here for financial reasons, yet has direct - and all too frequently deadly - consequences for us in the West)
With regards to the murderer of David Amess, it's apparent now that he was a radicalised Muslim extremist.
Very much not the first, and certainly won't be the last. We are all still under threat of us or our loved ones being murdered by these brainwashed psychopaths.
It's criminal how little focus is placed on how these people come to be radicalised. When IS were rampaging, there were frequent reports on their recruiting in western countries, and before that the role of Al Qaeda as a recruiting beacon for disaffected young Muslim men.
And yet studies have shown the huge link between the building of mosques with bloody Saudi money, which preach a pernicious and extreme form of Wahhabist Islam, and extremist attitudes. These studies and the general issue have been generally ignored by much of the mainstream media. There were a few years a decade or two ago, when the tabloids had a spell of ranting about 'Mad Mullahs', but never got out the loudhailer to push the direct link with dirty Saudi petrodollars and their Wahhabism.
I have a Muslim friend who's spoken to me about this in detail on a few occasions, and made excellent points about how different the Saudi/Wahhabist version of Islam is, to the peaceful and tolerant Islam that he knows. And he's pointed out how the more extreme preaching has spread through these Saudi-funded mosques. In my mind, I view Wahhbism like the malicious 'fire & brimstone' distortion of Christianity that is prevalent in the US and some other countries.
This is an excellent article from 2017 in the Huff:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/adam-deen/saudi-funded-mosques_b_16825640.html
So why is this not being hammered home to us all? The message that the evil Saudi dictatorship is funding hate and extremism in Islam, and we all - Muslim and non-Muslim alike - have a duty to understand this distinction between 'normal' Islam and the extremist, hate-laden brainwashing promoted by Saudi? And to stop it?
I think we all know. The West is shit-scared of upsetting/offending the evil scumbags who comprise the Saudi dictatorship; that extended and inbred family of vile, corrupt crooks.
For monetary reasons.
The same dictatorship that funds this extremism (and we've not even touched on their even more direct funding & arming of terrorist groups since the 1970s, nor their systematic destruction of Yemen after deciding to involve themselves in a civil war there) has just had the red carpet rolled out for them as they buy a Premier League football club.
And barely a fucking murmur of disapproval from the professional footballing community, from managers to players to journalists to pundits (barring a few principled - and brave - figures like Klopp and David Squires)
I wonder if it will subsequently be discovered that Ali Harbi Ali was a regular in a Saudi-funded mosque, who listened to the extremist sermons from evil turds with their twisted brand of Islam?
If so, I wonder how much of the mainstream media will brush that inconvenient fact under the carpet? And continue to focus on who Saudi Arabia Sportwashing FC might buy in the next transfer window.
As a Muslim man who lived and worked in many middle Eastern countries it's completely different than what you are saying.
There are different groups of Muslims.
- peacefull moderate Sunni and Shiite. Almost all Muslims are like this.
- Radical Sunni led by people like ( Azzam - Palestinian ) ( bin Laden - Saudi ) ( al-Zawahiri - Egyptian ) and so on. They say all Islamic governments and anyone who doesn't stand up against them is non Muslim and it's ok to be killed for the greater good. They attacked Muslim countries and people more than anything else and used Jihad as an excuse to recruit people , most Muslims consider them criminals and some western countries used them for political reasons to get what they want and provided them with weapons and money.
- Radical Shiite. ( Hezbollah , Houthis , Radical Iranians shitte ) who are brainwashed by shitte Mullahs who gave them heaven passports, if they die they go to heaven and they believe there is a man hiding for thousands of years called Almahdi ( Master of the Era , Master of the Obligation , Imam of time ) and for him to come out they need to lay the foundation for that including the world being fucked up.
Now Radical sunnah who you are talking about. Things changed long time ago, nobody support them, they are chased and prisoned especially by Muslims countries only some western countries for some reason go easy with them and create situations where radicals can feed on. Not only some western Countries are soft with them, if everything is better some drama will happen where the they will easily get weapons and a safe place for them to stay.
