al-Hasani
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Incidents like these will speed up the phase out of clergy from Saudi politics. As nowadays an average Saudi has no interest in religion.
How did you reach such a nonsense conclusion I wonder? This incident is unprecedented and will not change much other than confirming the strong social fabric of KSA and unity. Which the calls of unity on the social media and in practice were a marvelous confirmation of.
This maybe a horrible thing to wish for, but sometimes I really do wish for a war to cleanse Saudi Arabia from religious fanaticism filth once and for all. But wither they like it or not the grip of religious fanaticism dies by education, and Saudis are being educated very well recently, and this will lead to their death sooner or later.
The solution is not violence and murder (would that make you any different than the ones that you hate and criticize so much?) but dialogue and education. We are talking about a small minority anyway. Often youngsters from difficult homes with social and other problems as a I described.
Issues such as unemployment can also create rootlessness and make people prone to doing unlawful things whether crime, drugs etc. or occasionally joining militant movements in order to become a part of something bigger than yourself.
If that is dealt with the few radical "clerics" would speak to deaf ears but I am also very much for dealing with them as well. But you can't just remove a few bad apples among the clerics and then think that everything will be perfect. The other problems will still be there.
Besides such radical people don't need any clerics. Do you know that many of those that joined ISIS from across the world basically just became radical after reading FORUMS or watching videos? They don't need any cleric at all actually.
Playing with religion in KSA is like playing with fire.