Comment by Zaheer | Hacker News Reader

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All of these questions can be answered with some research online.

1) Yemen is a result of Saudi-Iran Proxy war: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-probe-details-fallou...

2) There will surely be challenging times but every country that had liberated itself from monarchy has gone through similar struggles.

3) >The Saud family is understood to be more liberal than the general Saudi population I don't have an answer on this but what is well known is that the Saud family partnered with Wahab family to push Wahabbism, since the start of Saudia Arabia. This alliance of faith & state was done to control the people similar to many times in history when faith has been hijacked to recruit supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

Granted we're talking about nations and their peoples and their histories and they are always long, deep, and tangled up and there are no simple truths. I'm aware of the origins of Wahabism through The Arabs (Eugene Rogan). I was looking for individual perspectives than what's easily available online. I've also tried reading up on the animosity between Iran and Saudi, and couldn't find any straight answer.

Iran is primarily Shi'a and Saudi Arabia is primarily Sunni.

This is not a sunni shia battle as portrayed by western media.

...which didn't use to be a reason for war. I recommend watching Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake. The west has more involvement in shia/sunni split and hate than it'd like to admit.

3) you’re missing tons of history here, especially in ‘79 when those wahhabists who were great friends of the Saudi family committed a coup and the ulama demanded power in exchange for their blessing in putting the uprising down.

Saudia Arabia and Wahhabism are also responsible for 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

More than that with regard to 9/11 if you consider where Osama bin Laden came from and what led him to start al-Qaeda.

And that the funding came from members of the House of Saud.

It is known that Prince Bandar is one of the individuals who directly funded the hijackers. He was the Saudi Ambassador for 20 years and close friends with the Bush family.

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