Tuesday, April 05, 2016

The Saudi monarchy has spent more than $100 billion spreading its fundamentalist Wahhabi interpretation of Islam around the world

"The U.S., the U.K., France and other Western countries consider Saudi Arabia a close ally. It sits on the world’s second-largest oil reserves and has done more than $100 billion in weapons deals with Western governments in the past several years. Critics compare the theocratic Saudi absolute monarchy’s religious extremism to that of groups like ISIS. The Saudi monarchy has spent more than $100 billion spreading its fundamentalist Wahhabi interpretation of Islam around the world."