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
The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
Key Notes
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.
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.
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.
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.
He frames transnational capital and the British imperial order as an alliance between Sabbatean networks and the British royal sphere, then generalizes that empires repeatedly sponsor radical sects, from Wahhabis to Bolsheviks to ISIS, in order to destabilize regions.
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"...House of Saud, as we know, they were supported Wahhabis, okay? Wahhabism, which is this radical Islamic movement. The British have a history of..."
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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..."
"...and it practices the most extreme form of Sunni religion called Wahhabism, okay? Wahhabism. In 1744,"
"...Arabia. And the agreement was this, that the Wahhabis could, the Wahhabism would become the national religion of Saudi Arabia, and the Wahhabis would..."
"...tried to resolve the conflict is to export the religion of Wahhabism throughout the world. And the way that Saudi Arabia has achieved that..."
"...so let's go back to 1950s and the spreading of um wahhabism throughout saudi arabia and throughout the islamic world which then became of..."
"...obvious example of this. There has been a rise of Jewish. Wahhabism and evangelical Christian Wahhabism, so to speak. I mean, you've seen this..."
"...know who support the rights of the house of assad and wahhabism the right guys so you can argue like you know the the..."
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