Then there's Saudi Arabia, our loyal and stable, or at least secure, ally. Right?
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1499049
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“With pride, I announce my defection from Al Saudi family in Saudi Arabia,” he wrote in his statement.
“This regime in Saudi Arabia does not stand by God’s rules or even (country’s) established rules and its policies, decisions, and actions are totally based on personal will of its leaders.”
“All that is said in Saudi Arabia about respecting law and religion rules are factitious so that they can lie and pretend that the regime obeys Islamic rules.”
He criticized the royal family for considering the country as its own property while silencing all voices from inside and outside the government calling for any change and reforms.
Khalid Bin Farhan said the ruling family has deliberately pulled the country to the current condition where cries of oppressed people are ignored. “They don’t think about anything but their personal benefits and do not care for country’s and people’s interests or even national security,” he added.
He warned that current problems of Saudi Arabia are not “temporary or superficial” and they do not end at unemployment, low wages and unjustified distribution of common wealth, facilities and services.
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This resentment has been festering for decades. Remember where 17 of the September 11 hijackers came from? A lot of people in this country hate their leadership, and by association, hate the west in general and the US in particular.
IIRC there was some civil protest in Saudi in 2011, which was bought off by cancelling student debts and stuff like that. I recall thinking that they had just bought time, although I was looking in the 6 to 12 month range.