Saudi clerics are not doing enough to discourage militancy among Saudi youth, including those who want to fight in Iraq, Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in comments published on Saturday.| That would be militancy against the House of Saud. Militancy against kuffarim and other enemies of the regime is A-OK. |
| The House of Saud is like the guy who wants a 'bad-d-d-d' dog, so he buys a pit bull and mistreats it. Then he's surprised when he's bitten. Hard. |
Hundreds of Saudis are thought to be among foreigners fighting with Al Qaeda in Iraq against US forces and the US-backed government, and there have been reports in Saudi Arabia about sons of prominent Saudi clerics trying to join the Al Qaeda insurgents in Iraq.
Saudi authorities are worried that Saudis could return to continue their fight in the kingdom. Commentators have said reports of Saudis in Iraq have embarrassed the country.
In 2003, Saudi militants allied to Al Qaeda launched a campaign of suicide bombings and attacks on government installations, energy facilities and foreigners, in an effort to topple the US-allied royal family. The Saudi royal family, while allied with the clerics in promoting an austere form of Sunni Islam, has been embarrassed by the way some clerics helped create Al Qaeda which then turned against the countryÂ’s rulers.