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Used for the extreme Sunni current allied with the Al Saud dynasty and later put in tension with Saudi oil wealth and modernization.
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Wahhabism
Used for the extreme Sunni current allied with the Al Saud dynasty and later put in tension with Saudi oil wealth and modernization.
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He treats postwar Anglo-American support for Islamic extremism as a later example of the same security-state pattern: destabilize rivals, undermine nationalist or socialist oil politics, and support the Saudi-Wahhabi compact.
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The speaker defines Wahhabism as the extreme Sunni form practiced in Saudi Arabia and says its 1744 alliance with the Al Saud family exchanged national religious status for allegiance to the dynasty.
diagnosis
The speaker argues that Saudi oil wealth pushed the kingdom toward Westernization, secularization, and modernization, creating renewed conflict with Wahhabi constituencies that he says account for 20 to 40 percent of Saudi Arabia.
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The speaker says Saudi Arabia tried to resolve internal conflict with Wahhabis by exporting Wahhabism globally, including through Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and the formation of Al-Qaeda.
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"Okay? So there were no Islamic minorities within America, but guess what? There are lots and lots of Islamic minorities within the Soviet Union...."
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"...So a long time ago, the Saudis made a pact with Wahhabism, which is a fanatical ideology within Islam. And so by supporting Islamic..."
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"...and it practices the most extreme form of Sunni religion called Wahhabism, okay? Wahhabism. In 1744,"
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"...Arabia. And the agreement was this, that the Wahhabis could, the Wahhabism would become the national religion of Saudi Arabia, and the Wahhabis would..."
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"...tried to resolve the conflict is to export the religion of Wahhabism throughout the world. And the way that Saudi Arabia has achieved that..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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