Unlike what many Western pundits think, Saudi Arabia does not represent Sunnis

"In his column in the New York Times on November 27, Roger Cohen described Saudi Arabia as “Sunni Central.” It is not, was never so, and will never be." "The history of Sunni Islam does not lend any of that to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." "These could not be more different in their social influences and theological understandings of Islam from Wahhabism, the highly strict, almost literalist discipline that the Al-Saud family allied itself with in the eighteenth century. This is one reason why Wahhabism remained almost totally confined to the Arabian peninsula up until the early 1970s,"