Even Saudis Don't Like Saudi Government

Those of us that worry about the Saudi monarchy and its extremist Wahhabi ideology have company. The
inhabitants of Saudi Arabia. Most of the Saudis think of the ibn Saud family as oppressors and Saudi
Arabia as an empire.

Frontpagemag’s Jamie Glasov
interviews John R. Bradley, author of Saudi Arabia Exposed:
A Kingdom in Crisis. Saudi Arabia is not exactly the monolithic fundamentalist state
we’ve been told about.
The people of Saudi Arabia have been

historically very resistant to Al-Saud-Wahhabi hegemony. In the formative years of
the 1920s, when these regions were being conquered by the Al-Saud and Wahhabi zealots, there
were at least 26 major rebellions, and one historian says as many
as 400,000 rebels resisting the Al-Saud forces were put to the sword.

They remember their local histories and
“see their country as an empire whose various regions were conquered and
are still ruled over by this alien royal
family, who use the Wahhabi ideology to oppress them.” The Saudi people are waiting for the
chance to get out from under the yoke of their Saudi oppressors.