Middle east is changing.
Saudi brought salafi and wahabism to other muslim countries to counter iranian threat.
Now they are back tracking and revrting back to saudis in the 1970's where women wear skirts and free to roam wherever they wish.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke of returning to era before 1979, not just Saudi Arabia, but the entire world.
return Saudi to moderate, tolerant Islam after four decades of extreme doctrines
Riyadh has given up using religion as one of its foreign policy tools.
- Four decades ago, Saudi gave free hand to extremist Salafi to stop Shia Iran
- Saudi involved in anti-communism after 1979 Soviet occupation of Afghan
- opposing Khomeini in Iran and exporting Shiah revolution
- Salafism in Saudi Arabia dictated by political needs
- part of means to get rid of Soviet Union and Ayatollah
Saudi abandoning political Islam in all its forms inside and outside Saudi
Saudi will no longer serve as an incubator for jihadists
Saudi chosen to permanently drop political Islam, its ideology, culture
return to the Islam that preceded revolution in Iran and war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia choses to cut ties with political Islam
- Previously, kingdom exported extremism all over Islamic world.
- Now to export tolerance, moderation, peace, stability, development
- Saudi will join majority 1.6b Muslims practising moderate Islam
- new Saudi vision pulls rug from organisations spreading Salafi extremism
- no longer room in Riyadh for mixing religion with politics.