Gulf Royals in The Demise of Islam

Abstract

Arab royalties have never seen themselves below Islam and God’s authority but rather always saw It as a tool. Since the first monarchy in Islam, as established by Muwaiyah and Yazid by usurpation and massacre, Islam came to be under the firm grip of tyrannical royalties. Over a long period, the Muslim Arab monarchies resulted in the reemergence of the tribalistic leadership in Prophetic Arabia known as Sheikhdom which has also maintained the core features of royalty. Colonial European powers supported the royalties and their respective Arab jurisdictions creating modern gulf states. So modern Arab states of Gulf thus in no way represent an Islamic creation neither in maps nor in political structure but Islam remains as a symbol. Arab royalties being a product of European colonialism and current American neocolonialism have acquired an unIslamic western psychology more than an Islamic one. Of course, no western political academic will study these royalties in this perspective because it does not suit their interests, but it is paramount for Muslims to understand the misguidance of their rulers. This psychological unfiltered unchecked western inclination can be seen in their personal lives, in their spending, economic, foreign and cultural policies. The following discussions will focus on their westernized psychology and how this has been destroying Islam and Muslim Islamic development.

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Gulf Royals in The Demise of Islam
Mohammad M Rahman
Arab royalties have never seen themselves below Islam and God’s authority but rather always
saw It as a tool. Since the first monarchy in Islam, as established by Muwaiyah and Yazid by
usurpation and massacre, Islam that came to be under the firm grip of tyrannical royalties was
to be known as Sunni Islam while the Islam that came to be against the Arab royalties was to be
known as Shia Islam. This is the political way of seeing the two denominations of Islam and this
is completely fair. Unlike Shia Islam Sunni Islam rarely had its moment of revolution against
monarchy towards a fully theocratic model as was practiced even by the first four caliphs of
Islam, as to Sunnis the first three caliphs were not monarchial but pious and extremely
knowledgeable in religious understanding. Since the first monarchy of Islam, the perpetual
exploitation and abuse of Islam by the Arab royalties has sucked the political content out of
Islam in Sunnism and today it’s full effect can be seen among the gulf Arab royalties and
geographies. The psychological misguidance has reached to the point where obeying royals is
seen as obeying God and rebelling them is seen as rebelling God unlike the early Muslims, right
after the Prophet of Islam, who had developed strong sense of justice and accountability that
the Islamic ruler must abide by. Those early Muslims who were led by Imam Ali, Imam Hassan,
Imam Hussein and others knew that in world history monarchy has been mostly dark,
oppressive and cruel so they engaged in wars against the early Arabs establishments to stop
them from usurping political power and also creating monarchy in Islam even facing
widespread persecution and massacre.
Over a long period, the Muslim Arab monarchies resulted in the reemergence of the tribalistic
leadership in Prophetic Arabia known as Sheikhdom which has also maintained the core
features of royalty. Colonial European powers supported the royalties and their respective Arab
jurisdictions creating modern gulf states. So modern Arab states of Gulf thus in no way
represent an Islamic creation neither in maps nor in political structure but Islam remains as a
symbol. Following the British treaty of 1820 Arab ruling families of the Gulf began to seek
British protection as a means of securing their rule and safeguarding their territories. By signing

the Perpetual Maritime Truce of 1853, the Arabs formally surrendered their right to wage war
at sea in return for British protection against external threats to their royal rule. Britain had
imperial political offices spread throughout Bahrain, Kuwait, Sharjah, Muscat, Doha, Dubai and
Abu Dhabi and the discovery of oil meant these regions had become strategically important.
The British encouraged the Gulf rulers to invest their surplus oil revenues in Britain, a practice
which the Arab royalties have extended beyond Britain to the western civilization in general. To
this day political, economic and military liaison between Britain and the Arab Gulf States remain
strong as also evidenced by the tragedy in Yemen.
Arab royalties being a product of European colonialism and current American neocolonialism
have acquired an unIslamic western psychology more than an Islamic one. Of course, no
western political academic will study these royalties in this perspective because it does not suit
their interests, but it is paramount for Muslims to understand the misguidance of their rulers.
This psychological unfiltered unchecked western inclination can be seen in their personal lives,
in their spending, economic, foreign and cultural policies. The individual psychology is
extremely important in shaping the greater worldview of any individual and if such an individual
has power it will be expressed through this power affecting lives of countless Muslims. It is
completely fair for a Muslim, at the end of this paper to question the Islamic faith of the Arab
royalties.
The following discussions will focus on their westernized psychology and how this has been
destroying Islam and Muslim Islamic development. I will not be able to give exhaustive
examples of their sins, corruptions and misguidance but few major ones which have come out
in public to expose them. The discussion mainly focuses on Saudi Arabian and Emirati royal
families as they have control of Mecca and Medina, have most resources and power, but ends
with Islamic republic of Iran to help readers understand the massive differences between
Islamic system and its people, and monarchy and its people. All the references are western
because western media have no motive in lying or demonizing these royalties which sustain
western hegemony.

Saudi royalty is completely westernized, and Islam has been the greatest tool of abuse and
exploitation for them. US diplomats have described a world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll behind
the official pieties of Saudi Arabian royalty. Jeddah consulate officials described an
underground Halloween party, thrown in 2009 by a member of the royal family, which broke all
the country's Islamic taboos. Liquor and prostitutes were present in abundance, according to
leaked dispatches, behind the heavily guarded villa gates. Such wastage in sins cannot exist in
any Muslim let alone their rules. One may say this is a prince gone rogue but there are more.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, paternal grandfather, King Abdulaziz, created Saudi Arabia,
considered to be the richest man in Saudi Arabia and one of the richest people in the world can
be said as a pristine example of Arab royal debauchery and wastage. Alwaleed’s investments
are not only local to Saudi Arabia in his Kingdom Holding Company and his Saudi real estates
but also in investments in western public and private companies, including Twitter.
Al-Waleed and his wife; Who would say these are Islamic cultured people?

Female employees with western miniskirts at Al Waleed home
While every poor Saudi has to go through forced Salafi indoctrination in the schools and
colleges the royalties avoid such Salafi upbringing and are trained in west to have unchecked
unfiltered western outlook and worldview. It was while attending Menlo College in Atherton,
California that he acquired a western world outlook.
His main palace in Riyadh has 420 rooms, filled with marble, swimming pools and portraits of
himself. If he needs to go on a business trip, he has his own 747, a la Air Force One, except
unlike the President, his plane has a throne. If Alwaleed wants a change of pace, he can go to
his 120-acre "farm and resort" at the edge of Riyadh, complete with five artificial lakes, a small
zoo, a mini-Grand Canyon, 5 homes and several outdoor spots designed for his entourage to
take dinner together. In 1991, when Alwaleed was 36, he made a high-stakes decision to invest
in Citicorp, which made him $800 million. By 2005, that had turned into $10 billion.
In 1991, when Alwaleed was 36, he made a high-stakes decision to invest in Citicorp, which
made him $800 million. By 2005, that had turned into $10 billion. This shows Arab royal success
entirely depends on the success and stability of western economies and businesses. Self-reliant
Islamic economic independence is never the primary agenda of Arab royalties. This can be also
corroborated by the fact that Saudi royalties finance American elections and top politicians. For

example, Alwaleed bailed Trump twice. The bailouts in question refer to purchase of a 280-foot
yacht from Trump in the 1990s, and the acquisition of half of the Plaza Hotel, which relieved the
New York property mogul of some crippling debt payments.
Wikileaks documents since 2010 offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the secretive
Saudi royal family and shed light on the Kingdom’s interference in regional affairs. They
highlight the Kingdom’s longstanding hostility against Islamic Republic of Iran, its support for
Syrian terrorists (Salafi Al-Nusra front) and Egypt’s military-backed government Sissi who
removed an elected president of Muslim brotherhood. The documents also highlighted
rampant wastage of money and vanities among the Saudi royalties. Even though the general
people of Hejaz (now Saudi Arabia) have less money than before, the royalty has same or even
more. Under Salman, princes appear to enjoy a lot more material privileges, and the core
allowance system has not been changed which is in billions of dollars. The sale of oil provides
billions of dollars in annual allowances, public-sector sinecures and perks for royals, the
wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank
accounts, wear couture dresses under their Hijab and frolic on some of the world’s biggest
yachts out of sight of commoners. Apart from these moral vices, wastage, and vanities the
Saud family, especially MBS has been increasing ties with Zionists. He has had several meetings
with Zionist leaders from USA.
US Zionist evangelical delegation led by Joel Rosenberg meeting with Mohammed bin Salman
bin Abdulaziz, in Saudi Arabia 2018.

Second meeting with Joel Rosenberg shakes hands with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at
a palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on September 10, 2019
He has emboldened India and gave a signal of normalcy towards oppression. However, this visit
to Saudi Arabia by India’s security head only shows fear and desperation from India because the
India knows if Saudi makes a move against Kashmir, they won’t be able to save Kashmir from
getting independence. However, these Arab money worshipping Bedouins are only thinking
about their investments in India.
The visit between NSA Doval and Saudi Crown Prince is expected to further strengthen the ties
between India and Saudi Arabia

MBS also supports Chinese oppression of Uyghurs. MBS has remained silent over China's
treatment of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang.
That's despite the ruling Al Saud family's image of itself as the defender of Muslims across the
world and protector of Islam's two holiest shrines.
Saudi Arabia along with Emirate have destroyed Yemen and created one of the worst
humanitarian disasters of the century only to counter Shia Islamic rise in Yemen and know that
Shia Islamic resistance has always been against Arab royal tyranny and exploitation since the
time of despotic Muwaiyah.
What drives the Saudi royalty towards these unIslamic lifestyle and policies? Greed, ambition
ad pursuit of fame. According to seven people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for

fear of reprisal from the Arab world's richest man, and who used to work for prince Alwaleed
FORBES' list of global billionaires is how he wants the world to judge his success or his stature.
Various thresholds--a top 20 or top 10 position--are stated goals in the palace, these ex-
employees say.
The house of Nahyan and Maktoum, two royalties are the mouthpieces and hands of western
neocolonialism and are ardent enemies of Islamic revival and political Islam. These royalties are
cruel and against the cause of Islamic rule over Muslim lands.
Who would say these are Islamic cultured people?
Some of their accomplishments against Islam and Muslims are severely destructive to Muslim
diaspora. Throughout the 1990s, a plan called ‘drying the springs’ was implemented to exclude
Islamic revivalists from public office and restrict their activities in the public domain. They
closed local Zakat funds for the poor and the needy. Quranic study circles operating inside
mosques were then closed and banned. Palestinian resistance detained and tortured. They also
funded military coup against President Morsi and tried to topple a United Nations recognized
government in Libya by supporting terrorist Haftar. They also destroyed Yemen and created

one of the worst humanitarian disasters while supporting Zionists and Israel. The following
picture shows Israeli cabinet minister’s visit to Abu Dhabi’s grand mosque (Left) and the same
minister in a film festival with an insulting dress to Al-Aqsa (right).
Israel's Culture Minister Miri Regev (C) visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates October 2018 (Left). Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev’s dress, at Cannes
Film Festival May 2017.
Muhammad Bin Zayed also honored the genocidal maniac and butcher of Gujrat and now
Kashmir, Narendra Modi. Modi was banned from United States and European countries for his
genocide of 2000 Muslims in 2002 in Gujarat. Modi is part of a greater ideology called the
Hindutva which seeks to destroy or convert all Muslims in India and Kashmir.

Narendra Modi was conferred the highest civilian honor of the UAE, the Order of Zayed by the
Crown Prince HH Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
He has failed to put any pressure to India’s atrocities and occupation of Muslim Kashmir. He
rather abandoned those helpless Muslims at the mercy of Hindutva.
Emirates is also supporting Chinese oppression against Uyghurs. The pattern of Emirati
apostasy and hypocrisy against Muslims and Islam is consistent and continuous.

China thanked the United Arab Emirates for backing its security crackdown in Xinjiang, state
media said, as President Xi Jinping played host to Abu Dhabi's crown prince.
MbZ, as he is colloquially known, has a personal fortune of around US$30 billion, is Deputy
Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, and enjoys close bonds with
both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. When Sheikh Mohammed married Princess Salama in
1981, he ordered the construction of a stadium where 20,000 guests could easily be
accommodated for the seven-day ceremony. The wedding was estimated to have cost US$100
million. He owns two private jets – a Boeing 747 (A6-UAE) and a Boeing 787 (A6-PFC).
MBZ with a model; No Islamic protocol followed!

Opposite the wasteful unIslamic lifestyle and rule of Arab royalties lie the Islamic system of Iran.
Iran is based on Islamic system of theocratic meritocracy. Quran has put the knowledgeable and
pious in charge of our affairs. These intellectuals are theologians jurists and pious men whose
motivations are not influenced by secular corporate funding but by spiritual and religious
motivations to serve God and His prophet. The system is designed to filter out non-religious and
corrupt people for any public office. In the Iranian system of Islamic rule, one has to earn his
place and not buy his place to office. For example, Imam Khomeini’s life imitates the life of
Prophet. Imam Khomeini was rejected by the elites like Prophet, was evicted and emigrated like
the Prophet and returned to Iran victorious as Prophet returned victorious to Mecca. The
current leader Ayatollah Khamenei is a war veteran and lost his hand in the war. Overwhelming
majority of the parliamentarians are well versed in Islamic law and theology and many are Hafiz
of Quran.
Since the victory of Islamic revolution of Iran Islamic culture and sentiments have come to the
forefront of existence. Islamic symbols, icons and slogans are seen in public. Islam’s enemies
are portrayed for information war and public awareness. Islamic reminders are in display for
people to know and remember their purpose in life and society. All forms of immoralities and
vices are shunned, such as prostitution, gambling, pornification, nudity and promiscuity.
Welfare of the people are preferred over welfare of the elites and powerful.

Current leader of Islamic Republic of Iran in his humble home
These have been a result of Imam Khomeini’s vision:
We are supporters of the oppressed. Whosoever is oppressed anywhere, we support him-
Imam Khomeini, Sahifeh ye-Imam, Vol 5, page 146
The disappointment comes up if we cannot pull down the corrupt people a bit and pull up the
oppressed a little... We are liable to think and we do it through legal aspects and divine
guardianship- Imam Khomeini, Sahifeh-ye Imam, vol. 10, p. 246
Former president of Islamic Republic of Iran and his family in their humble home

The difference between an Islamic wife and an Arab secular wife
Saudi Arabia and Emirati royalties reveal the ugliness of Arab royalties. Such sins and
degradation in the psychology and policies stretch across almost all Muslim rulers, especially
Gulf royalties. The Muslims are under perpetual exploitation and thus oppression. Arab and
Muslim rulers having so much wealth still Muslim suffering is widespread. The World Bank's
biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report finds that the rate of extreme poverty in the
MENA region rose from 3.8% in 2015 to 7.2% in 2018 — the latest year for which data is
available. In a country with vast oil wealth and lavish royalty, an estimated quarter of Saudis
live below the poverty line. In Emirates exploited workers who make luxury apartments for the
wealthy are not reported by the government. Reporters are not encouraged to write about
poverty, or exploited workers. Allen writes in her article for BBC’s Panorama that she and her
crew were asked to leave after following a group of workers home. She and her crew returned
later to talk with the workers and saw camp conditions that included raw sewage all over the
camp and no water supply in one of the toilet blocks. As the government controls information
about the United Arab Emirates poverty rate. and the exploitation of foreign workers, those
workers themselves don’t tell the families back home how things really are.

So not only the vast wealth of these despotic Arabs is being wasted but also have failed to
remove poverty from Muslim demography. These Arab wasteful Bedouins could have sustained
all the unemployed Muslim families of their localities and beyond for decades, but no one is
asking them to give such perpetual charity but rather give the Islamic taxes and invest in human
capital to create jobs which they fail to do and promote the most basic of human rights. These
Arab royals are afraid of an educated aware human capital because they may become
independent thinking and resist royalty at some point. They are afraid of eradicating modern
slavery because they think it will impede productivity and exploitation of workers.
How do these royalties find justification for their sins? Traditional Salafism is the ideology by
which Arab royalties find their so-called religious validation. Salafism has always existed in a
symbiotic relationship with secularists and imperialists that is experienced as cruel, violent and
invasive as the history of Salafism shows. These wahhabist scholars have produced various so-
called preachers of peace whose main political agenda is to make Muslims accept their rulers
without criticism and resistance. These preachers of peace will talk about God's will and
destiny, about patience and charity but all articulated to brainwash Muslims to self-destruct
resistance and political acumen and abandon Jihad (one of the most important acts in Islam).
They want Muslims to feel as helpless and nothing can be changed because efforts (Jihad) are
against God's destiny.
There is still hope that Muslim world can rid itself off from these leeches and vermin. Both Shia
and Sunni believe in the coming of the twelfth Imam, but Shias believe he is alive and was born
long ago. The twelfth imam is waiting for the correct atmosphere to be created to come out.
The prelude to such an atmosphere started since 1979 Islamic revolution and today various
Islamic resistances in the middle east have risen. According to Hadiths prophecies Iraq will be
the first place for imam Mahdi’s movement to emerge. Today we have possibly the predecessor
of this Mahdi movement called Hashd Shabi in Iraq. As the Shias prepare more and more along
with many Sunni movements, creating the correct atmosphere, the twelfth imam will emerge.
He will establish justice and equity and that means he will engage in wars, revolutions and
evolving governance of Muslim demography. His arrival will see drastic changes in global
politics and international diplomacy.

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