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

August 16, 2016

Yemen Quicksand, Impact of Extremism, Saudi Haters

CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries

The Saudis Should Have Known That Yemen is a Quicksand

CDHR Commentary: Having failed to terrorize the impoverished 26 million Yemenis into submitting to the Saudi rulers’ military and financial might, the Saudis seem to have reverted to their original but equally doomed plan: dividing Yemen, which they tried to do in the past. Partitioning Yemen into two countries, as proposed here, and linking the South (Aden, which controls the Bab Al-Mandab Red Sea shipping jugular) to the GCC alliance is a recipe for continued death and destruction, not only in Yemen, but along the Saudis’ 1,100 miles mile southern border. Dividing or colonizing Yemen in one form or another is not new, nor should the plan come as a surprise, given the Saudi oligarchs’ historical obsession with Yemen and practices of inst igating and sustaining conflicts in other Arab states. This is one way of manipulating their disenfranchised population; creating mayhem in other Arab countries to divert the people’s attention from focusing on their stark and repressive domestic political, economic, religious and social conditions. Read more: www.cdhr.info

Detesting Saudi Arabia has Nothing to do With Its Wealth

CDHR Commentary: Attributing abomination (hatred) of Saudi Arabia in the media to envy by its haters is a gross exaggeration, if not claptrap all together. According to this Saudi/Brazilian reporter, “There is so much hate directed at the Kingdom that it becomes alarming and tiring at the same time to have to constantly defend our country from the criticisms that come mostly from those who hate and envy us for our blessings of wealth which come from our natural resources.” Read more: www.cdhr.info

Devastating Impact of Saudi/Salafi Institutionalized Obstacles to Human Development

CDHR Commentary: Despite its wealth and exposure to outside ancient and modern peoples and cultures for centuries, Saudi society remains among the least developed in the world. This is NOT due to lack of good genes or that the Saudi people are innately unable to explore, learn, create and decide for themselves. The primary reason for the underdevelopment of Saudi society is the state’s imposed, institutionalized and enforced Salafi taboos (“Haram, un-Islamic, Bid’ah”) created by the Saudi/Wahhabi alliance nearly 300 years ago.

Through their Salafist mindset (adherence to the 6^th century social structure and way of life as practiced when Islam was established more than 14 centuries ago), the Saudi/Wahhabi autocratic and theocratic ruling elites regulate what their disenfranchised population is allowed to see, learn and think. However, the autocratic Saudi ruling elites are losing control over the population due to the arrival of the uncontrollable social media. Read more: www.cdhr.info

Impact of Extremism on Saudi Children and Women

CDHR Commentary: It should not have come as a surprise that Saudi children kill their parents for not being ISIS-like Muslims or that Saudi women join ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Wretchedly, these acts are the results of marginalizing Saudi women and an extension of the way male children are indoctrinated at homes, schools and mosques. Children are constantly reminded of the purity and supremacy of Sunni Islam and its superlative values. 

If there were four phrases to describe the Saudi socialization process, they would be submission to authority, fear of the unknown, belittling of women and intolerance of differences, especially religious. This process starts in infancy when children are trained to obey their parents from cradle to grave. This includes kissing parents’ hands, foreheads, knees and, in some cases, feet. As offspring grow older, they are instructed and expected to extend such “imposed submission” to teachers, clerics and mostly to the rulers, the king and his ruling family (Walat El’mer, Masters of Destiny.) Read more: www.cdhr.info

Prince Turki’s Speech in Paris: Pinnacle of Hypocrisy

CDHR Commentary: On July 9, 2016, the former head of the Saudi spy agency (Mukhabarat) and Ambassador to the UK and US, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, told a large number of secular anti-Iranian-theocracy participants at a rally in Paris that the Muslim World supports their cause “both in heart and soul.”  The Saudi royal went on to address the female leader of the rally: ‘And you, Maryam Rajavi, your endeavor to rid your people of the Khomeinist cancer is an historic epic that, like the Shanameh will remain inscribed (in) the annals of History.’ (Interestingly, Shanameh is the epic of Persian Kings, the last of whom was killed when Muslims invaded and conquered Persia.) Read more: www.dchr.info

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