Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar's more tolerant, liberal Islam: Not what it seems - Middle East News
Follow Dec. 13, 2020 It wasn’t long ago that Gulf states were actively promoting ultra-conservative interpretations of Islam, and didn’t shy away from cultivating political Islam either. The U.S. National Intelligence Assessment from April 1970 judged Riyadh as "likely to support conservative non-governmental groups in the Arab world, such as the Muslim Brotherhood." But times are changing. Gulf states are being forced into a comprehensive rethink of their religious, political and economic systems, triggered by, most immediately, the prospect of drastically declining oil revenues as globa...
Source: haaretz.com