Religious cults are collapsing under the influence of the internet. In this video I concentrate on the fact that a religion which calls itself Islamic (in this case the major cult of Sunnism) is now on the back foot.
Link to Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/18/saudi-scholars-to-vet-teaching-of-prophet-muhammad-to-curb-extremism
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My original FB post on this:
HOUSE OF SAUD TRYING TO KEEP THE LID ON
KEY QUOTE: "A royal order issued this week by King Salman established a global body of elite scholars based in the holy city of Medina to root out and “eliminate fake and extremist texts”."
TRANSLATION: "The so-called hadiths are a real problem, but the Saudis (and all other "Muslims") need them to keep the religion not found in the Qur'an going, so the Saudis are going to set up an Islamic Vatican so they can dictate what stays in and what goes out."
The Saudis understand – along with anyone else with a functioning brain – that the so-called hadiths are a liability. The problem is, that the whole "Islamic" religion ceases to exist without them (which should tell you something).
Let's be clear: all so-called hadiths are – by universal consent and by dint of their very nature – hearsay. And hearsay has no place in establishing truth about God.
The broader picture is that the ruling elite need the Muslim sheep to bring about the long-awaited clash of civilisations.
They're just going to work out what the best way of steering those sheep over the cliff is.
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The remainder of the article (i.e. what I do not quote in this video):
King Salman, the custodian of the two holy mosques in the cities of Mecca and Medina, appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Hassan al-Sheikh, a member of the senior scholars council, as chairman of the complex’s scientific council. Members are to be appointed by royal decree.
The Saudi authorities have been worried about extremism, both as a domestic threat and as a strain on its relations with the west, since 9/11, said Jane Kinninmont, a senior research fellow at Chatham House.
“They would say the accusations are out of date, but they know this issue is their achilles heel in the west. The new leadership in Saudi cares much more about its image and PR than before and is genuinely trying to get to grips with extremism,” she said.
Saudi Arabia was also facing international pressure over Yemen, she added. Last month, the UN agreed to set up an independent investigation into alleged abuses of human rights in Yemen by all sides in the three-year civil war.
Saudi Arabia is backing Yemen’s president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Saudi Arabia and its allies have been accused of conducting unlawful airstrikes in Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians and hit schools, hospitals, markets and homes in the neighbouring country’s civil war.
Earlier this year, a report from the conservative Henry Jackson Society claimed that Saudi Arabia was promoting and funding extremism in the UK.
It said: “Saudi Arabia has, since the 1960s, sponsored a multimillion-dollar effort to export Wahhabi Islam across the Islamic world, including to Muslim communities in the west.
“In the UK, this funding has primarily taken the form of endowments to mosques and Islamic educational institutions, which have in turn played host to extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature. Influence has also been exerted through the training of British Muslim religious leaders in Saudi Arabia, as well as the use of Saudi textbooks in a number of the UK’s independent Islamic schools.”
The Saudi embassy in London said the claims were “categorically false”.
