PETALING JAYA: As the scourge of IS spreads cancer-like over the globe, it has surfaced that Saudis had acknowledged its suffocating presence in their society long before armies were formed and beheadings were carried out on infidels.
Made clear through the many Twitter messages that Saudis tweet as a means to vent their anger, indignation and frustration over this, many have also directed blame to their own government’s policies that perpetuate IS ideology.
In an article appearing on The Independent, it was reported that Saudis largely felt that religious clerics were to blame, in particular Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi clergy, for the indoctrination of the brand of extremism that IS promotes.
Calling IS the fruit of “the tree of Wah[h]abi preaching”, Abu Hamza al-Masa’ary tweeted that the clergy was largely to blame for turning Faisal Shaman al-Anizy, a Saudi doctor into a suicide bomber.
Echoing his sentiments was Abdullah al-Kwalit who tweeted, “You [government] should punish these snakes [preachers] … Allah dam[n] them”.
Others too have taken to Twitter to state either their disgust or dismay at how the clergy has played a pivotal role in getting Faisal to willingly embrace human destruction when his profession was one that called on him to do just the opposite.
Even Wahhabi sheikh Adil al-Kalbani, admitted, “Isis is a Salafi [fundamentalist] offshoot … a reality we should confront with transparency”.
Lamenting the lack of “tolerance and religious pluralism” that other countries teach their citizens, one Saudi tweeted, “they did not teach me that one day what we are learning will be implanted by Daesh and its offshoots”.
In the wake of IS, the Saudi government has redoubled its efforts to convince the people that Sharia law and not that of IS would be practiced.
The result has been a spate of beheadings and religious raids conducted on private homes including the charging of 27 Asian Christians for holding a church service.
Taking a somewhat philosophical slant, Souad al-Shimmary, a Saudi, tweeted, “Where did Daesh (IS) come from? It’s our product returned to us.”
Rajah al-Jihni however put the blame squarely on the nation’s education policy.
He tweeted, “Your schools are the ones that produced Daesh… what are you waiting for when you seek this educational policy?”
So while the liberals take to Twitter to air their frustrations and anger, there is little else they can do, as the religious climate in Saudi Arabia remains one that many cannot tolerate.
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