You do know that the royal family controls Aramco, and that they are spending billions to spread a Wahhabist ideology that is essentially the same extremist philosophy Osama preaches?scareduck wrote:Because of course the people running Saudi Aramco are just like Osama bin Laden.TallDave wrote:Remember, this is the country that produced Osama bin Laden and most of the 9/11 hijackers
I'll take "Collective Guilt" for $500, Alex ... sheesh ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi
You are aware that about half the suicide bombers in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia?. A study by the NGO Freedom House found wahhabi publications in a number of mosques in the United States preaching that Muslims should not only "always oppose" infidels "in every way," but "hate them for their religion ... for Allah's sake," that democracy "is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century," and that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were infidels.
I'll take Blindingly Obvious for $1000 -- DAILY DOUBLE!! Thank you Alex, I'd like to bet everything on Saudis continuing to be irrational.
That's not to say they won't take some pragmatic measures to try to sustain their petrokleptocracy as the oil runs out, but there isn't much evidence that reason and enlightenment are their guiding principles. The "scientific discovery cannot contradict Allah's will, as defined in the Koran" paradigm has been ascendant for many centuries, and particularly so in Wahhabist SA.