The announcement that Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition against ISIS is laughable.
They are playing a different tune now for public relations but we know better. This is still them.
It's like putting the mafia in charge of fighting illegal gambling. Saudi's are behind ISIS and agree with their ideology/theology but only disagree on who should lead the Muslims to this Islamic promise land.
They fund it with their petrol money.
This is more the truth.
What is the difference between ISIS and Saudi Arabia?
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Why Saudi Arabia's coalition against terrorists might not be all it appears
Saudi Arabia said all the right things in announcing a 34-nation Islamic military coalition against terrorism. And the move could help in some ways. But it could also largely be window dressing.
Washington — A group of Muslim countries announced Tuesday a coalition aimed at doing what the United States and other powers have long called on the Islamic world to do: make the war on the Islamic State and other Islamist terror groups its own.
Saudi leaders announcing the 34-nation coalition and some participants said all the right things in trumpeting the new antiterror alliance. Terrorist ideology is an evil force within Islam that must be confronted first and most adamantly by Muslims themselves, these leaders say, while the war on Islamist terror must be fought and won by Muslims.
Speaking of a “disease” that has “affected the Islamic world,” Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman said that the new coalition underscores “the Islamic world’s vigilance in fighting” the scourge of terrorism.
Yet as encouraging as the new coalition and the rhetoric around it may sound, the effort may end up as little more than window dressing. The announcement may be aimed at assuaging a world that after the Paris and San Bernardino attacks is demanding action by Muslims against the rising Islamist terrorist threat, some terrorism analysts say.
“The Saudis are under a lot of pressure, for what they’re doing in Yemen, from the accusations that they’re spreading Wahhabi ideology, and for what they are not doing on the military side of the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq. So I can see that this would have some propaganda value for them,” says Aaron David Miller, a former US diplomat in Middle Eastern affairs who is now a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington.
“We already have a coalition of 65 countries engaged in the fight to defeat ISIS, and only a half dozen of those countries count and are of any practical value,” he adds. “So I just don’t see how a coalition of 34 very diverse Muslim countries is going to have any more than symbolic value.”
Announcement of the coalition could ring especially hollow if Muslim countries – and Sunni Arab countries like Saudi Arabia in particular – cannot address the conflicts that have opened the door to groups like the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS, some regional experts say.
“I think [the new coalition] is more symbolic than anything. It’s a response to international criticisms that the Saudis aren’t doing enough to stop ISIS,” says Farea al-Muslimi, a specialist in Gulf and Yemeni politics at the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon.
Saudi leaders announcing the 34-nation coalition and some participants said all the right things in trumpeting the new antiterror alliance. Terrorist ideology is an evil force within Islam that must be confronted first and most adamantly by Muslims themselves, these leaders say, while the war on Islamist terror must be fought and won by Muslims.
Speaking of a “disease” that has “affected the Islamic world,” Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman said that the new coalition underscores “the Islamic world’s vigilance in fighting” the scourge of terrorism.
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“This is our war and the Muslims’ war,” the government of Jordan said in a statement announcing adherence to the coalition.
“The Saudis are under a lot of pressure, for what they’re doing in Yemen, from the accusations that they’re spreading Wahhabi ideology, and for what they are not doing on the military side of the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq. So I can see that this would have some propaganda value for them,” says Aaron David Miller, a former US diplomat in Middle Eastern affairs who is now a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington.
“We already have a coalition of 65 countries engaged in the fight to defeat ISIS, and only a half dozen of those countries count and are of any practical value,” he adds. “So I just don’t see how a coalition of 34 very diverse Muslim countries is going to have any more than symbolic value.”
Announcement of the coalition could ring especially hollow if Muslim countries – and Sunni Arab countries like Saudi Arabia in particular – cannot address the conflicts that have opened the door to groups like the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS, some regional experts say.
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