J.R. said:
SipEmBears said:
Waco1947 said:
SipEmBears said:
https://instagr.am/p/DcUAAX2SCe1
You are mistaking religious practice for a religious government. Sharia is a government.
It's not a govt, but many governments use it as law.
Where Sharia actually functions as law
A small number of countries treat it as the primary legal system (Saudi Arabia, Iran, Maldives).
Many Muslim-majority countries use mixed systems: Sharia for personal status (marriage, inheritance) and secular or civil codes for everything else.
that how I understand it. However, Saudi takes it a wicket step up (Wahhabism ). Fat Boy is cutting deals with those killers
The USA has been cutting deals with those killers since FDR.
All the usually establishment suspects and bipartisan politicians.
Do we need to post all the pics of Biden, Obama, Bush the lesser, Bill Clinton, Bush the elder, and the rest of our Presidents holding hands and kissing with the Saudi geriatric Kings?
[In 1931 the
U.S. Department of State extended full diplomatic recognition to the newly unified Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under King Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Commercial ties took root in 1933 when King Abdulaziz granted a major oil concession to the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal, now Chevron), launching the search for oil that led to the discovery of major petroleum reserves in 1938.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdulaziz aboard the
USS Quincy in the Suez Canal, cementing a strategic long-term partnership centered around security and energy cooperation in 1945]
And in fact Trump has pushed MbS the new ruler on taking on Islamism... and MbS (despite being ruthless) is probably one of the most moderate rulers that Saudi Arabia has ever had.
[For decades, Saudi kings empowered the
Mutawa (religious police) to roam public spaces. They strictly enforced gender segregation, public dress codes, and prayer-time business closures.
MbS stripped the religious police of their powers to pursue, question, or arrest citizens. Today, their presence on Saudi streets has effectively vanished.
MbS explicitly vowed to return Saudi Arabia to a "moderate Islam open to the world". He lifted the decades-long ban on women driving, dissolved major components of the male guardianship system, reopened movie theaters, and allowed massive, co-ed music festivals...
The state under his rule has largely halted the unchecked global funding of foreign religious institutions.
MbS refocused Saudi international outreach around foreign direct investment, tourism, and soft-power diplomacy rather than religious propagation.The ruling Al Saud family operated under a historic power-sharing pact with the Wahhabi clerical establishment; the royal family held political power, while the clerics controlled social, judicial, and educational life.
MbS effectively dismantled this independent power base.
Clerics who preach radicalism, criticize social liberalization, or express independent political opinions have been systematically arrested or sidelined.]
