Proving nothing. Saudi Islam is a particularly strict and conservative form of Islam, sometimes too much so. There’s more than one strand of Islam just as there’s more than one form of Catholicism or of Christianity.
But there is only ONE reality, and the reality is that Saudi Arabia, despite it merely being a British creation of tribal favoritism, does control Mecca- the absolute place to pilgrimage for every mohammedan. It is the direction of prayer. They are the keepers of the teachings of mohammed in the true nature of what the purpose of mohammedanism is. The Shi’a, while equally cruel, also display a variant of moahmmedan doctrine, specifically in the realm of rightful heirs and eschatological phenomena which are largely self-affected and self-fulfilled. I suspect we shall see an example of steps in that regard today (15 February), or in the coming days; certainly we shall see the move within a year.
Same faction has the loyalty and material support of Hezbollah, Bashar Al-Assad and his regime, HAMAS, and the Muslim Brotherhood. In essence, they have the power in the region. Saudi Arabia merely has itself, Jordan, and a few of the other gulf states. Even Iran’s historical enemy, Iraq, is moving closer to a Persian mindset in regard to the shared Shi’a majority.
While both schools of general thought are largely disparate in appearance, they both engender the same awful reality: shariah law and the enacting of examples from the hadith and historically developed mohammedan jurisprudence in matters such as that.
As a person born into mohammedanism, his rejection IS apostasy and punishable by death in that system. This extends to all countries which are officially mohammedan. Afghanistan, Pakistan, “Palestine”, all of North Africa, etc.
Whatever happy-go-lucky variant you are studying is not anything more than a trap for your Western gullibility, or is some variant like Ahmadiyya.
To reject historical mohammedanism in favor of some other modern variety which is more agreeable is like someone converting to Pentecostalism and claiming they’re Catholic.
The historical reality matters, as do the historical fruits in light of the historical text.
In this regard, mohammedanism fails most spectacularly.
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