"The Saudi Crown Prince as I know him – Part 2
Saudi citizens recall that Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz offers the Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Sunnah [Prophet's teachings] and Contemporary Islamic Studies, and that he is also a defender of the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
In the West, they reduce all this by purporting that he is a zealot and that he is close to the Salafist religious establishment.
But if I were to describe Prince Nayef with one word, I would say that he is a believer.
He is a believer whose eyes are wide open, and for this reason, we find that his faith has never prevented him from seeing the excesses of Saudi Arabia’s guests that were affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood. For instance, he once told me:
When the Muslim Brotherhood members were expelled from Egypt and Syria, they came here and we embraced them (I know that they were given positions and jobs), only for us to receive from them the equivalent of Sinnimar’s reward (The origin of this expression is known. Sinnimar was perhaps a Nabatean Aramaic architect who built the Al-Khawarnaq castle for King al-Numan in Al-Hira. Sinnimar told the King that there was a brick, or a stone, in the castle that, once removed, the whole castle would crumble down beginning with its foundations. Al-Numan asked him whether anyone else knew this. When he said no, al-Numan ordered him to be thrown from the rooftop of the castle to guard this secret).
…The Muslim Brotherhood was backed by Britain, and it has spread deviance in the Arab world. They and the Takfir wal Hijra [Excommunication and Exodus] group have influenced youths, in the beginning through university professors affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood and who spread their ideology. As a result, extremism emerged in our country, and they [the extremists] then went to Afghanistan.
We warned the youths against extremism and convinced many of them to change their attitudes, and they have since become upstanding citizens…" (thanks Mohammad)
