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One year ago, just before Mubarak was forced out in Egypt, the Mufti of Saudi Arabia got his orders and issued a fatwa against protests. Here is how that post starts:
 
The Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Shaikh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaikh severely criticized those who protest and demonstrate in Arab cities. He said the demonstrations are part of a plot to weaken Arab and Muslim countries and, get this, to transform them from big strong nations to weak backward nations. Shaikh Al said these protesters are spreading lies….. He said that security and stability are most important, using the example of Saudi Arabia, which he said follows the word of Allah and has become an example cited all over the world. (Somehow I had missed the part about it being cited as an example to be followed, unless Angela Merkel is now proposing to behead sorcerers and magicians in Germany, for example)

The Mufti, besides being intellectually the equivalent of a Neanderthal, is also a keen propagandist for Wahhabism and for the absolute royals. But that is okay, they appointed him. Besides, he had no choice: the Saudi king himself publicly called the Egyptian youth who started the revolution “foreign infiltrators”. For the king, these youth are foreigners since they are not Saudis.

FYI: Shaikh Al is a direct descendant of Shaikh Mohammad Bin Abdulwahab, an early ally of the al-Saud after whom the strict Wahhabi doctrine was named. They got to name a whole country after their family, and the shaikh got to name a whole sect after his family. Shaikh Mohammad Bin Abdulwahab should not be confused with the late great Mohammed Abdelwahab, the Egyptian composer and singer who was never a Wahhabi nor a fundamentalist.
Cheers
mhg


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