Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC

January 26, 2016

CDHR’s Commentaries and Analyses

The Saudi Royals’ Perilous Responses to External Conflicts, Economic Downturn, Domestic and Regional Threats, and Declining Influence

Saudi Mass Executions: A Colossal Miscalculation

CDHR’s Commentary: While most people in the world are celebrating the dawn of 2016 and are hoping for a better year that is free from extremism and terrorism, the Saudi people are forewarned by their absolute ruling princes of a year of increased institutionalized state terrorism, costly repercussions of external wars and punishing economic hardships due to the drastic decline in oil revenues. The beheadings and death of 47 people by the state’s executioners and death squads in different cities in Saudi Arabia today (Jan. 2, 2016) are a reminder of the lethal ideology (Salafi/Wahhabi dogma) upon which the Saudi judicial system is based. It’s the same ideology upon which ISIS’s, Al-Qaeda’s and other Muslim terror groups’ manifestoes are founded. Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

Apprehensive Saudi Response to Emerging Global Unity Against Terrorism 

CDHR’s Analysis: Shaken by the November 13^th carnage in France, the downing of a Russian plane and killing of its 224 passengers and crew in Egypt, carnage at a hotel in Mali, and the impact of these lethal events on Europeans and others  (as demonstrated by the curfew and shutdown of public schools and transportation in Brussels), the major European powers and Russia have no choice but to work in unison to defeat their formidable and ambitious common enemy, the Muslim/Islamist terror movements. The United Nations’ Security Council’s immediate unanimous passage and adoption of a quick resolution, which was followed by meetings between Western and Russian leaders go beyond the normal rhetoric of bombing terrorists in Iraq and Syria. “The (UN) resol ution, introduced by France in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris a week ago, calls on the international community to mobilize and to organize efforts against the global threat posed by terrorism, to block the flow of foreign fighters and to crack down on terrorist finances.”  Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info    

“Saudi Arabia Is Underwriting Terrorism” versus “Jihadism Is Not Saudi Arabia's Fault”

CDHR’s Commentary: The Saudi political and religious oligarchs can always count on American intellectuals and their institutions to defend them and promote their policies even at a time when many countries (including the US) are reeling from Saudi/Wahhabi inspired and financed terrorists’ attacks. In a recent article, apparently motivated by personal and institutional intent for financial gains, one of the critics of Saudi Arabia’s lethal dogma, Dr. Bernard Haykel of Princeton, calculatedly joined many Western intellectual Saudi ap ologists/defenders. This transformation from being somewhat critic of the Saudi establishment's Jihad incitements (including destruction of Christian churches) and support for extremists and terrorists to being a born again vindicator of the Saudis’ well-known role in exporting and financing Jihadis worldwide, is curious at best. By reversing his position on Saudi culpability for Jihadism, Dr. Haykel did not only contradict some of the most well-informed and credible Muslim historians, scholars, politicians and authorities at centuries old institutions, but denied well-known and documented Saudi/Wahhabi links to violent Jihadism. Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

Saudi Economic Downturn=Dire Consequences 

CDHR’s Analysis: Consecutive Saudi kings have declared and reiterated (one king after another) that they would embark on economic reforms and creation of desirable and secure jobs (Saudization) for their millions of unemployed subjects, especially for the burgeoning male and female youth. None of this has ever materialized. The downright failures to implement any meaningful economic reforms are due to many factors which include, but are not limited to, the government’s fear of a financially self-reliant society, which is less likely to be held hostage to those who control their means of income and public services, such as healthcare, electricity, water, education and property ownership. Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

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