Vision 2030: Modern Saudi Arabia and the era of post-Wahhabism

What does it mean for the world order when we move away from dependence on oil, and Saudi Arabia is no longer called upon to play the transformational role it has until recently? We may be on the brink of a Copernican shift, and we may be witnessing the secularization of Saudi Arabia, and the slipping of the holy sites of Islam away from Islamic protection, where the country may become no more Muslim than Dubai. As the birthplace of the religion, the country of Saudi Arabia is a living symbol of Islam, whose sanctity gives the Muslim world a sense of security, despite whatever upheavals might be happening to Muslims elsewhere. For 1300 years, Arabia was able to remain protected from any imperialistic encroachments. Then came the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War II. With the establishment of the state of Saudi Arabia, the regime managed to maintain a semblance of Islam, which temporarily allayed the fears of Muslims that their holy sites would no longer fall under an Islamic authority. 

The reality is, the Saudi state is a Zionist puppet created to manipulate Islam’s transformation into a neutralized opponent. The country have been adherents of what is called “Wahhabism,” founded in the eighteenth century by a fanatic named Mohammed Abdul Wahhab. According to the infamous Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, Wahhab was a British agent. The Wahhabi movement was designed to undermine Islam by proposing that Muslims needed to bypass the centuries of Islamic scholarship, and return to the “sources” of the Shariah.[1]

The precedent they made use of was Ibn Taymiyya, a radical Islamic scholar of the thirteenth century, who was highly controversial, and even jailed several times during his lifetime, until he was finally denounced as a heretic by Sunni scholars a few centuries later.[2] The same adherence to Ibn Taymiyya also inspired the Salafi movement, founded by Jamal ud Din al Afghani in the late nineteenth century. Not only was Afghani a British agent, but he was also Grand Master of the Freemasons of Egypt, and a source for the occult teachings of H.P. Blavatsky and the synarchism of Saint-Yves d’Alveydre.[3]

Those occult traditions laid the groundwork for the founding of the Nazi Party, which maintained close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, which would remain closely associated with the Saudi regime in their service of the Zionists by way of the CIA.[4] When the reigning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was asked about the Saudi-funded spread of Wahhabism, the Washington Post reported that “he said that investments in mosques and madrassas overseas were rooted in the Cold War, when allies asked Saudi Arabia to use its resources to prevent inroads in Muslim countries by the Soviet Union.”[5]

A year after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932, the Rockefellers were granted concessions, to what became the world’s largest source of oil. And as most people know, most of the wars in the twentieth century have been fought over oil. That wealth permitted the Rockefellers to fund the Rockefeller Foundation, which was one of the principal fronts of the CIA, allowing them to carry out not only covert operations and the overthrow of democratically-elected governments around the world, but the wholesale transformation of Western culture, from Abstract Expressionism, feminism, the New Left and political correctness, and even the New Age and Environmentalist movement.[6]

When the Americans wanted a covert war against the Soviet Union, they funded the Muslim Brotherhood in Afghanistan, which forced the Russians to retaliate. A triangle was put in place where Israel illegally traded weapons with Iran, whose proceeds were used to finance the right-wing Contras of Nicaragua, through the purchase of cocaine, which was shipped to Mena, Arkansas, under Bill Clinton’s supervision, igniting the devastating crack epidemic across the US.[7]

Those proceeds were then transmitted to the Pakistani secret service, the ISI, for distribution among the so-called “Mujahideen.” Those same “Mujahideen” were then educated in “Madrassas” supported by Saudi Arabia, and taught in the austere “Deobandi” tradition of India, which has had long-standing ties with Wahhabism, thus producing the infamous Taliban, which has substantially marred the reputation of Islam, with their phony brand of “Shariah.”[8] The bagman was Osama bin Laden, whose group of Wahhabi Jihadist were responsible for the attack of 9/11. [9]

Evidently, Saudi Arabia has played a central role throughout the twentieth century in the advancement of the Zionist goals, using the United States as proxy. That political order now stands to be completely transformed, with the numerous reforms being recently put in place by bin Salman.

Until recently, the Saudi state had also been chiefly responsible for also transforming the belief and practice of Islam throughout the world. It was estimated that the Saudis controlled as many as 80% of the mosques in the US. Their worldwide spending for the spread of Wahhabism had been characterized by some of the largest propaganda campaign in history. "Our allies demanded that we use our resources to accomplish this task," Bin Salman said. The Crown prince also admitted that successive Saudi governments have gone astray, and now “we have to get it all back.”[10] 

But now MBS, as bin Salman is called, is making an explicit break from the Wahhabi past, to what has been described by some as the "post-Wahhabi era". A decision was enacted to celebrate the "Saudi Founding Day" annually on 22 February to commemorate the 1727 establishment of Emirate of Dir'iyah by Muhammad ibn Saud, rather than the past historical convention that traced the beginning to the 1744 pact of Ibn Abdul Wahhab. According to MBS, the traditions of Wahhabism are not the only legitimate interpretation of Islam, and he has allowed for a return for the acceptance of the role of the 4 traditional schools of legal jurisprudence, known as Maddhabs.[11]

While that should normally represent a return to the true traditional practices of Islam, in the context of Saudi Arabia, they serve an entirely other objective: the secularization of the Saudi state, and the marginalization of Shariah in favor of an economic transformation designed to prepare the country for its move away from singular dependence on oil, known as Vision 2030.[12] Women have been finally given the right to drive, cinemas and other forms of Western entertainment have been permitted, and even the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice have been largely disbanded. Tourists have now even been allowed to enter the sacred city of Medina, which had been off-limits to non-Muslims for centuries.[13]

[1] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Three, Chapter 6: Black Gold. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-three/black-gold

[2] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume One, Chapter 6: Eastern Mystics. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-one/eastern-mystics

[3] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Two, Chapter 20: Theosophy. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-two/theosophy

[4] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Three, Chapter 22: The Cold War. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-three/cold-war

[5] Karen DeYoung. “Saudi prince denies Kushner is ‘in his pocket’” Washington Post (March 22, 2018).

[6] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Five, Chapter 11: The New Age. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-five/new-age

[7] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Five, Chapter 3: The Reagan Doctrine. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-five/reagan-doctrine

[8] Yōgīndar Sikkand. “Stoking the Flames: Intra-Muslim Rivalries in India and the Saudi Connection.” Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (January 2007), 27 (1):95-108.

[9] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao, Volume Five, Chapter 3: The Reagan Doctrine. Retrieved from https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-five/reagan-doctrine

[10] Karen DeYoung. “Saudi prince denies Kushner is ‘in his pocket’” Washington Post (March 22, 2018).

[11] “Ibn Abdul Wahhab is not Saudi Arabia, reaffirms Crown Prince.” Saudi Gazette (March 3, 2022). Retrieved from https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/617728

[12] “Saudi Arabia’s Religious Reforms Are Touching Nothing but Changing Everything.” In Islamic Institutions in Arab States: Mapping the Dynamics of Control, Co-option, and Contention (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2021). Retrieved from https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/07/saudi-arabia-s-religious-reforms-are-touching-nothing-but-changing-everything-pub-84650

[13] Avi Jorish. “I went to Medina as a Jew, Biden should go too - opinion.” Jerusalem Post (July 1, 2022). Retrieved from https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-710916