Opening of cinemas
Opening of theaters
Striping religious police of its powers
Planning to open luxury beach resorts where women can wear bikinies
Endorsement of Valentines day through a fatwa and calling it a "Positive activity"
Lifting driving ban on woman
Sending troops to India for training
Praising isreal openly
And this whole damn thing happened in one calendar year. May be, saudies want to reduce their dependence on oil and want to build their economy on other factors..... Or is there something more to the story ?
Well it had to happen some day, I am wondering what will happen to all those un employed male drivers who were needed to drive the Female Folks around?
Opening cinemas, it is kind late for that since every one carries a full cinema show in the palm of our hands right?
However it is all happening by decree and not by Democracy, I think somethings are laible to backfire!
The royal family should understand that they can’t run KSA like any other state, since they are the custodian of Hijaz. They can not and should not go from one extreme to another. All the things i have listed above will take saudies to a dead end. The only thing i support is lifting the driving ban, though it will bring unemployment. I feel Muhammad bin Salman is playing with the fire and Vision 2030 will cost him his throne.
It’s said Prince Salman plans to bring “moderate” Islam to Saudi. The plan supposedly also entails eventually splitting up the country into 4 territories (to be used by Israel at some point) and decentralizing Makkah/Medina. That’s one theory I’ve come across. Allah knows best.
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Anybody see the irony that the country spreading fundamentalism in other countries itself is now ruled by a liberal (not moderate) Prince now?
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^Right lmao.
Anyways most of these changes are superficial as hell or aren’t that surprising.
I will not be surprised if it happens in just a few months given the fact that Muhammad bin Salman is made crown Prince for a reason. Remember he replaced someone else, and this type of replacement never happened before in the history of Aly-Sauid… He looks to be the strongest crown Prince and no one can stop him from doing anything since his father is the King..
the royal family wants rule no matter what it takes. while they have been enforcing Islam never tried to tried tableegh and islah of thier people in true spirit. youth is getting into politics as they are afraid of qatar and egypt model of governance could take place in the kingdom. they have to control thier youth as they are finding it hard cover thier kingdomship under the guise of sharia. same is reason they sponsored masacre in egypt. saudis are not happy with qatar for being soft on Ikhwan, youth and Iran. the reason saudis feels no pain on attrocities in palestine is same that saudi version of Islam is not there.
As far as i know, both countries follow same version of Islam… Salafism.
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Qatar is soft on hammas which follows a little different version than saudi Salfism. also hammas is politically affiliated to MB that is threat to saudi kingdomship as the wave is reaching KSA. the major reason is saudis dont want political Islam and they can easily convince West that political Islam is nurturing extremists while Saudis themselves can fund extremists.
Those changes should have happened long time ago for the right reasons, but now seem to have been implemented for political appeasement of the West and for mental conditioning of Saudi people who have been lead to believe the new leadership is on their side really wanting to bring about positive changes into their lives which of course is a sham and just a ploy to hang on to power for as long as possible.
I’d take the Malaysian model of a progressive, tolerant and modern yet traditional example of an Islamic country in the 21st century any day over Saudi whose fundamentalist (and now quickly being discarded) policies some people here seem to have taken a liking to and been endorsing.