This Saudi-Qatari alliance is the worst alliance in the region since the Baghdad Pact. With its money, suddenly, the Islamist are now in the forefront of the Arab uprisings when they were in the very rear. Look at Tunisia today: this concocted protest at a TV station for what critics saw as an "insult to the Prophet" is nothing but a plot to rejuvenate the Islamists and to advance their fortunes before the elections.