The actual reason he hasn’t faced consequences for it is that he’s largely doing what the West wants, the secularization of SA. Calling it a theocracy just isn’t quite right anymore, even if Islam as a whole tends to dispute the very idea of the separation of church and state.
I think that’s one of the things Christians, or former Christians, don’t want to admit in this little religious rivalry, that Muslims are every bit as varied in their take on fundamentalism as Christians.
Lol the Saudis used Israeli spy tech to spy on the family of the journalist they murdered, Jamal Khashoggi. They may well have used it on him as well, however his devices were never recovered so that was never proven. The sale of the tech was approved by the Israeli government, and the company that sold it claims they have full oversight over who their customers target.
That’s completely beside the point you were making, but I really felt the need to mention it nonetheless. War is a tangled web, the only consistent thread is money.
Not quite.
You know Crown Prince MBS? Hacks up journalists MBS?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/saudi-clerics-crown-prince-mohammed/2021/08/02/9ae796a0-e3ed-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html
The actual reason he hasn’t faced consequences for it is that he’s largely doing what the West wants, the secularization of SA. Calling it a theocracy just isn’t quite right anymore, even if Islam as a whole tends to dispute the very idea of the separation of church and state.
I think that’s one of the things Christians, or former Christians, don’t want to admit in this little religious rivalry, that Muslims are every bit as varied in their take on fundamentalism as Christians.
Lol the Saudis used Israeli spy tech to spy on the family of the journalist they murdered, Jamal Khashoggi. They may well have used it on him as well, however his devices were never recovered so that was never proven. The sale of the tech was approved by the Israeli government, and the company that sold it claims they have full oversight over who their customers target.
That’s completely beside the point you were making, but I really felt the need to mention it nonetheless. War is a tangled web, the only consistent thread is money.