Jihad Khazin and prostration to House of Saud

Jihad Khazin (columnist for Al-Hayat, the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Bin Sultan--one of the dumbest Saudi Princes ever)  would have been a fine columnist had he not prostrated years ago to King Fahd and devoted his life to services to various Saudi princes. I tell talented Arab writers always that opportunism is a killer of talents.  I would not read me if I convert to the Saudi cause, for example.  So Khazin wrote a week or so ago a column in which he argues that Arab caliphs including the "four rightly guided caliphs" with the exception of Abu Bakr were not great at all.  And he dishes out dirt on some Arab caliphs (by the way, the information he uses was the stuff in the writings of Egyptian secularist, Faraj Fudah, who relied much on information on caliph on a great book from turath, called Tarikh Al-Khulafa' by Siyuti).  (Khazin attacked one caliph for being "deviant"--his reference to gayness or to same sex sexual orientation.)  So there was wide reaction against the column and some Saudis started to attack his sponsor, Prince Khalid Bin Sultan who is looking to succeed his father as Minister of Defense.  So Khazin did what all columnists for House of Saud do: he apologized said that he "withdraws his past article" and promised to be more loyal and then, for extra benefit from House of Saud, he attacked the Jewish religion.  And then you wonder why I detest the House of Saud and their propaganda outlets?