La fin de l’année 2017 a vu s’effondrer le «califat» de l’Etat islamique (EI), au terme d’offensives antidjihadistes d’envergure en Syrie et en Irak. Mais si l’EI a perdu presque tout contrôle territorial en Mésopotamie, ses adhérents terroristes restent à l’affût à travers le monde, et en Europe en particulier.
A la lumière de ces développements, les analystes tentent d’améliorer leur compréhension du groupe pour en finir avec lui. Pour certains d’entre eux, la source d’inspiration de l’organisation se trouve en Arabie saoudite. Néanmoins, avec un regard plus précis, nous pouvons affirmer que l’Etat islamique est engagé dans une guerre théologique avec l’établissement religieux saoudien, afin de déterminer lequel des deux épouse avec le plus de pureté les principes de l’islam sunnite.… Seguir leyendo »
The word “Wahhabism” has become a boogeyman in the West, deemed responsible for the radicalization of Muslims around the world. And since Wahhabism is a strain of Islam that has its origins in the Arabian Peninsula and is the dominant religious doctrine of Saudi Arabia, that country is often viewed as the prime culprit in the propagation of violent extremism.
But blaming Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia for Islamist radicalism is a dangerous red herring. This single-cause explanation distracts from the complex political, economic and psychological reasons people join terrorist groups. In doing so, it impedes our ability to effectively fight terrorism.… Seguir leyendo »
Years ago, at the height of the Arab Spring, I asked Zbigniew Brzezinski about prospects for democracy in Saudi Arabia. The grand old man of muscular American foreign policy — national security adviser to Jimmy Carter and a believer that the US had become “the first truly global power” — looked decidedly unimpressed.
“Democracy, in Saudi Arabia?” he rasped. “How do you know they wouldn’t elect Osama bin Laden?”
We moved on to other topics. America generally does move on to other topics when the subject of Saudi Arabia is raised. Those self-styled “grown-ups” who run US foreign policy regard any serious questioning of the relationship with the desert kingdom as a sign of weakness, pottiness, or childishness.… Seguir leyendo »
In July, after approval from the Obama administration, Congress released a 28-page chapter of previously classified material from the final report of a joint congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said that the document had ruled out any Saudi involvement in the attack. “The matter is now finished,” he declared.
But it is not finished. Questions about whether the Saudi government assisted the terrorists remain unanswered. Now, as we approach the 15th anniversary of the most heinous attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, it is time for our government to release more documents from other investigations into Sept.… Seguir leyendo »
Last Friday, the infamous “28 pages” from the 2002 Congressional Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks were declassified. For years, this final section of the report was kept from the public, which led some to believe that it contained evidence that the Saudi Arabian government was behind the attacks, either indirectly by financing al Qaeda or directly by providing support to the actual terrorists on the planes. Now that the pages have been released, the truth is out, and in the words of the 9/11 Commission: “[there is] no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded [al Qaeda].”… Seguir leyendo »
The Brussels bombings, like the Paris terror attacks earlier, are a reminder that jihadist-minded citizens of European Union states can turn into suicide killers by imbibing the insidious ideology of Wahhabism. Blaming the Islamic State group solely for the new terror in Europe risks condoning the role of the ideological mother of Islamist terrorist organizations — Wahhabism, whose international spread has been bankrolled especially by Saudi Arabia.
If Saudi Arabia is to be stopped from continuing to export radical Islamic extremism, the United States and Europe will have to make necessary adjustments in their policies. By wielding only carrots and no stick, the West allows the double-talking Saudi royals to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds — at grave cost to the security of many countries.… Seguir leyendo »
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi deputy crown prince and minister of defense, announced last week the formation of a kingdom-led, 34-state Islamic coalition to combat terrorism.
The statement from Riyadh cited "a duty to protect the Islamic nation from the evils of all terrorist groups and organizations, whatever their sect and name, which wreak death and corruption on earth and aim to terrorize the innocent". The major allied partners in the group include Pakistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia and most of the Gulf Cooperation Council states.
This move is based upon some of the core tenets of the emerging Saudi Defense Doctrine, which has been developing over the last several years to address certain regional issues.… Seguir leyendo »
Les événements tragiques de Paris avaient suscité une grande émotion et une profonde tristesse dans la société saoudienne. Les Saoudiens comprennent bien l’ampleur de la catastrophe qu’a vécu la France et partagent la peine et la souffrance du peuple français qui pleure des innocents lâchement tués au nom d’une doctrine aveugle qui n’a rien à voir avec l’Islam. Pour exprimer la solidarité des Saoudiens avec la France et les Français, la tour « Kingdom », monument le plus symbolique de Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite à Riyad, s’illuminait chaque soir aux couleurs du drapeau français. Cette solidarité n’est pas feinte : le royaume a souffert de tragédies similaires à celles de Paris, face au même ennemi après plusieurs attentats terroristes.… Seguir leyendo »
Daesh noir, Daesh blanc. Le premier égorge, tue, lapide, coupe les mains, détruit le patrimoine de l’humanité, et déteste l’archéologie, la femme et l’étranger non musulman. Le second est mieux habillé et plus propre, mais il fait la même chose. L’Etat islamique et l’Arabie saoudite. Dans sa lutte contre le terrorisme, l’Occident mène la guerre contre l’un tout en serrant la main de l’autre. Mécanique du déni, et de son prix. On veut sauver la fameuse alliance stratégique avec l’Arabie saoudite tout en oubliant que ce royaume repose sur une autre alliance, avec un clergé religieux qui produit, rend légitime, répand, prêche et défend le wahhabisme, islamisme ultra-puritain dont se nourrit Daesh.… Seguir leyendo »
Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. In its struggle against terrorism, the West wages war on one, but shakes hands with the other. This is a mechanism of denial, and denial has a price: preserving the famous strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia at the risk of forgetting that the kingdom also relies on an alliance with a religious clergy that produces, legitimizes, spreads, preaches and defends Wahhabism, the ultra-puritanical form of Islam that Daesh feeds on.… Seguir leyendo »
On peut rire des imams saoudiens pour qui la Terre est plate (grand moufti Abd Al-Aziz Ibn Baz) ; qu’elle ne tourne pas autour du soleil (cheikh Al-Bandar Khaibari) ; des efforts de la Muslim World League pour faire reconnaître le créationnisme version coranique ; rappeler les premières destructions archéologiques, dont le fameux cimetière Al Baqi des compagnons du Prophète (cheikh Mohamed Al-Tayeb) lors de la prise de La Mecque ; ou s’étonner que les juges ne soient pas tenus d’enregistrer le témoignage de non-musulmans. La liste des inepties saoudiennes, aussi longue que les interdits concernant les femmes, occuperait un double annuaire téléphonique.… Seguir leyendo »
The rise of the Islamic State has once again turned the spotlight on Saudi Arabia, which is accused of supplying the theological foundation of the movement’s brutal ideology, as well as many of its fighters and funders.
The kingdom faced similar criticism in 2001 after 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 terrorist attacks were found to be Saudi. As a result, when King Abdullah ascended to the throne four years later, he established the Financial Investigation Unit to halt terror financing and cracked down on extremist rhetoric in the mosque. But the heart of his campaign against extremism was a major revamp of the nation’s education system.… Seguir leyendo »
A une époque où les frontières sont fluides et contestées, où les conflits sont indirects et se font par procuration, à l’exemple de l’Ukraine, les Etats sont tentés d’utiliser des «courts-circuits» et des clients pour leurs propres objectifs politiques.
Les Etats-Unis, avec ses alliés en Afghanistan; Israël, qui a soutenu le Hamas lors de sa création; l’Iran qui, dans les années 1980, a sponsorisé différents mouvements nommés Hezbollah; le Pakistan, qui se tient derrière le réseau Haqqani: tous ont cédé à la tentation. Dans la plupart des cas, ils se sont repentis du retour de balancier qui s’est produit quand ces groupes se sont avérés volatils, imprévisibles et indépendants.… Seguir leyendo »
Along with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islam’s birthplace. Non-Muslims are forbidden to enter this part of the kingdom, so there is no international scrutiny of the ideas and practices that affect the 13 million Muslims who visit each year.
Last week, Saudi Arabia donated $100 million to the United Nations to fund a counterterrorism agency.… Seguir leyendo »
There are three things that the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strives for above all others: peace, stability and security, for the international community, for our region, and for our country and our people, whether they are old or young, men or women, Sunni or Shia. These are the cornerstones of our government and they lie at the foundation of our thinking.
The escalating and alarming situation in Iraq is of serious concern. These are our neighbours, our friends, and we watch with distress as this terrible situation escalates next to us.
As our foreign minister, HRH Prince Saud al Faisal, told the Islamic Conference of regional leaders in Jeddah this week, “this grave situation… carries with it signs of civil war that has implications for the region we cannot fathom”.… Seguir leyendo »
Tahar Ben Jelloun, escritor. Premio Goncourt 1987 (LA VANGUARDIA, 04/06/04)
Arabia Saudí -guardián de los santos lugares del islam y país productor de petróleo- se encuentra ahora en la tesitura de tener que luchar contra el terrorismo que tan duramente la ha golpeado en diversas ocasiones. Lo cierto es que no estaba preparada para afrontar un día esta modalidad de guerra ciega. Pensaba hallarse al abrigo de esta plaga para ser, definitiva e indiscutiblemente, "Dar-al-islam" (la morada del islam) por oposición a "Dar-al-harb" (la morada de la guerra); vivía, replegada sobre sí misma, dedicada a cultivar sus tradiciones y costumbres, cerrando su corazón y sus puertas a la modernidad, la que garantiza la democracia y el reconocimiento de la persona individual y del Estado de derecho.… Seguir leyendo »
Mateo Madridejos, periodista e historiador (EL PERIODICO, 02/06/04)
El ataque de Al Qaeda contra uno de los pilares del triángulo de oro saudí, al confirmar hasta la exasperación que la guerra preventiva no crea la paz ni mitiga el terrorismo, suscita una inquietud desestabilizadora en el mercado de hidrocarburos. El petróleo fue el motor del colonialismo, el acicate populista del nacionalismo árabe y el arma de los derrotados por Israel, hasta provocar el primer infarto petrolero en 1973 que clausuró la era del precio barato. Desde 1980, con el imperativo de la petropolítica, según la doctrina de Jimmy Carter, el petróleo se identifica con los intereses vitales de EEUU, aunque la alianza con la monarquía de los Saud es anterior a la segunda guerra mundial.… Seguir leyendo »
Por Amir Taheri, coautor de Irak, la historia oculta, su obra más reciente, publicada en Francia (EL MUNDO, 18/11/03):
Con el ataque terrorista de hace unos días en Riad, que mató al menos a 17 personas, les ha tocado a los saudíes experimentar la pesadilla que muchos otros regímenes árabes y musulmanes han sufrido ya: el monstruo islamista que crearon se ha vuelto contra ellos.
El Sha de Irán se pasó veinte años lanzando a los islamistas contra la izquierda y los liberales. Fue derrocado en 1979 por una revolución dirigida por los islamistas. El presidente egipcio Anwar el Sadat dio impulso a los islamistas contra los panarabistas durante toda la década de los setenta.… Seguir leyendo »
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