“This is a private individual who made a personal statement that has nothing to do with the state.”
Of course. But he is one among many who share these views.
“Saudi cousin of Mohammed bin Salman threatens West with ‘jihad and martyrdom,'” Middle East Eye, October 16, 2022:
A cousin of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has issued a violent threat against the West amid souring relations over a decision by Opec+ to cut oil production.
In a message “to the West”, Prince Saud al-Shaalan is seen in a video circulating on social media saying “anybody who challenges the existence of this kingdom, we are all projects of jihad and martyrdom”. The prince is heard issuing his warning in English and French.
Saud al-Shaalan is a tribal leader and grandson of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, according to Saudi human rights advocate Abdullah Alaoudh.
His intervention comes as relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia have hit a nadir. With energy prices rising following Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, Washington has lobbied members of the Opec+ oil cartel, particularly Saudi Arabia, to increase production….
Alaoudh, who belongs to the Democracy in the Arab World Now group set up by Khashoggi, said on Twitter that Saud al-Shaalan’s video showed “a direct cousin” of Mohammed bin Salman threatening the West with “jihad and martyrdom”.
However, Saudi lobbyist Ali Shihabi said the prince was a minor royal with no official role.
“This is a private individual who made a personal statement that has nothing to do with the state,” he tweeted.
Jim J Fox says
Do we need any more reason to get rid of dependence on oil???
NO of course f***ing NOT!!
gravenimage says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Non sequitur. We were rid of our dependence on foreign oil when we were fracking just 2 years ago. Talking about the US, not Australia. Only reason we are dependent again is b’cos of Biden and the retards who run his government
Walter Sieruk says
Since the Saudi prince feels to strongly that “jihad and martyrdom” is such a grand thing to do that he will endorse it and encourage other Muslims to do it , then he should set an example for them by strapping on a bomb vest and then go out and blow himself up.
John ..Smith says
+1
tim gallagher says
Yes, Walter, if this maggot did that it would improve the human race a great deal. Of course, this piece of shit won’t do any such thing, he will send others out to do his dirty islamic terrorism.
Jefffixler1 says
No. The Saudi elites leave that for their brainwashed minions. In the meantime, they can enjoy the pleasures that Western societies offer them. Luxury goods, palatial estates, Western prostitutes and the like.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Just that last line “Do you still wonder where terrorism comes from?!” is proof from the horse’s mouth of the Saudi Royal’s involvement in the 9-11 attack and Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
ben sherfort says
a private individual with how much personal fortune in money and property???? therefore a private individual that can happily fund terrorist activities as his personal views demand…
what was osama bin laden in saudi arabia before september 11th ???? he was just another private individual with a soaring fortune that funded the terrorist attack on the twin towers….
these individuals have so much money that when they become radicalised they directly fund terror….
but who is not radicalised from the prosperous kingdom??? almost all of them that hold fortunes are radicals….
and saudi arabia does not fund turkey who runs the interantional terrorism directly but through katar they do….
so anyone ever wonder why islamic terrorism is so succesful in the west and africa???
mick says
The view from my armchair is that Qatar and Saudi fund different ‘jihadi’ groups. Qatar funds or funded most of them including Al Shabaab (Somalia), Taliban, Daesh…. and the recently ousted Pres Faramaajo (Somalia).
I am not clear who the Saudi state and private, respectively, support. JW would do us a favour with a summary.
somehistory says
is he to the saudi kingdom like biden’s son hunter is to the biden administration?
Is he a kissin’ cousin to the head cheese “prince”?
Did he “speak without authority’? He didn’t speak anonymously, so does he have authority to speak?
Rarely says
Hardly a surprise. In fact, it is to be totally expected and not because they are muslims.
gravenimage says
Rarely–with all respect–who else but Muslims are threatening critics with “Jihad and martyrdom”? Your claim that non-Muslims do this is mistaken.
Then, threatening murder over criticism of production cuts is *not* “to be totally expected”. What other nation has done this? It is not only not the norm; I can think of no cases involving Infidel countries.
Despite our disagreement here, glad to see you posting again.
PRCS says
Surely, he’s been radicalized, eh?
Rarely says
Maybe and maybe not. At present he and his family have a very firm hand on the controls. Any threat to that control would bring a reaction. The threat of suicide bombers (very hard to stop) would be seen as a pretty good deterrent.
How much is religious fervor and how much is despotism is anyone’s guess. My guess is that they love the power and control more than they love any deity. It doesn’t matter though because the result would be the same. What is virtually certain is that they would use religious fanatics for any suicide missions where seen as necessary.
PRCS says
Given the radical/radicalized label politicians and so-called journalists typically assign to Allah’s most devout slaves, the post was facetious.
But, I do take your point.
gravenimage says
Rarely, other nations have had “trade wars”, and sometimes rhetoric can become heated. But threatening to murder people all over a multi-nation region because one member was critical of production cuts? I can’t recall having ever seen this, let alone it being the norm as you claim. If you have examples, please refer to them.
tim gallagher says
Sounds like basic islam is what this piece of crap is talking about. islam has been nothing but 1400 years of murderous evil and that is all that the violent, totally barbaric creed will ever be about. That is all that islam has. The world would be so much better if islam would somehow become extinct in the way that other vile religions (such as the old Aztec religion) have disappeared from the world.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the +1, gravenimage.
Jefffixler1 says
As I stated the other day, the failure of the United States to hold SA accountable for the 911 attacks has continuing consequences. This Saudi “prince” is merely stating what is on the minds of many who hold sway in the dirt Kingdom. If the 911 attacks weren’t an act of war, then nothing is! The way I see it, the Saudis owe us about $2-3 trillion in free oil to compensate us for the economic damage of those attacks.
joanofark06 says
So you have definite proof that they were the ones that caused 9/11?
Jefffixler1 says
We know 15 of the 19 scumbags were Saudi citizens. We know the Saudis have been using those unearned ( accident of geology) oil billions to propagate Islam around the globe. It isn’t necessary to prove that the attacks were planned by the Saudi royal family. They probably weren’t. The point is the Saudi regime bears enormous responsibility for the attacks due to their malice of forethought by spreading their Wahabbi Islam ( normative Islam, really) around the globe. The behavior of the Saudis immediately following the attacks is also quite telling of consciousness of guilt. Saudi citizens fleeing U.S. soil, and perhaps most tellingly, Saudi funds temporarily removed from U.S. holdings. The Saudis feared that U.S. courts might freeze their assets while lawsuits by the victim’s families were heard. Alas, to the shame and discredit of American politicians, the Saudis would not be held to account in order to protect our Saudi “Allies”. Now, what are you going to tell me? That George Bush or the CIA or Israel was behind the attacks? What a joke!
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia in no friend of any Western nation, Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate.
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.” [1]
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran.
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, page 106
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.
As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003, published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young men from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islami Foundation.’
The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “
Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE, in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”
So, with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread, influence and infiltration of the Western nations, this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of America or any other country of the West.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not an innocent nation when it comes to the subject of promoting Islamic terrorism by setting up Muslim brainwashing centers in which impressionable Muslim youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of Quran based jihad violence with much killing of people who are not Muslim for the advancement of Islam. As the Quran instructs, for example 2:191., 5:33. 9:5,111,112,123 47:4,89.
One scholar, Brigitte Gabriel, who is an from the Middle East had in her book with the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED informs her readers on page 114. “Saudi Arabia is one of the leading financial contributors to Islamic terrorism worldwide. Part of that contribution is made by funding madrasas throughout the world and the brainwashing of Muslim children with intolerant teaching towards anything non-Muslim.”
Likewise, a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, in his book which has the title of THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM on page 353 reveals that “Saudi Arabia has spent millions on Islamic propaganda and on building madrassas.”
Further on the subject that there are Muslim mind control and mind programming places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered-down, hard-core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.”
Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a ex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31.
Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools,
called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique, and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”
In short, Saudi Arabia is very guilty of promoting Islamic terrorism as Iran.
Hank says
Not to mention the funding of those humongous mosques in Europe and around the world.
gravenimage says
Saudi prince threatens West with ‘jihad and martyrdom’
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Now, I find Biden’s criticism of the Saudi’s cutting oil production rather hypocritical–but threatening the West with Jihad terror as a result? I would say this is unhinged, but it is actually orthodox Islam. Same thing, really.
Fitna says
This idiot is basically putting a target on his head. I’m a little surprised that the US doesn’t just go after these dirtbags, take all their wealth and their oil fields and put them 6 ft under and bring real freedom and democracy to Muslim countries…they used to belong to non-Muslims in the past.
And if you were a really nice person, you could take that money and help rebuild their infrastructure, give back to the citizens that deserve it. Though the more ‘devout’ Muslims will probably need to be dealt with.