Friday, April 10, 2015

The problem with this article in the Financial Times

"King Salman of Saudi Arabia is a “lion” and the pilots leading bombing raids against Houthi rebels in Yemen are “soldiers of God” in the latest poem penned by Aayed al-Qarni, a popular Saudi cleric.

Available online with images of jets streaking across the sky and bombs exploding, the ode calls on the Saudi air force to “batter the gathering places of Satan’s band, the worshippers of idols”. In an attack at Iran’s supreme leader, it adds: “Let [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei die of frustration and anger.”" She seems to assume that all the Saudi media speak freely of the moods and opinions of the Saudi people (or the people in the Gulf).