“To say that was a shock to the system is an understatement,” said a senior Saudi official. “We didn’t know how to deal with it,” Prince Mohammed told the Guardian. Now is the time to get rid of it.”No Saudi leader has previously come close to confronting the accommodation between clerics and rulers. “A change of philosophical levels, where the Saudi religious establishment is no longer Wahhabi? That would be a monumental shift, and I’m not sure MBS [Prince Mohammed] is all that interested in taking that up.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2017 05:00 UTC