The root cause of Islamophobia is in part based on the rigid intolerant Wahhabi doctrine promoted by Saudi Kingdom and its Post 1960 propagation

1. Saudi Arabia & Islamophobia
The purpose of this presentation is to explain in greater details the
culture, government, theology and the practices of the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia(KSA). Of course it is all available on the web but my
purpose is to focus on certain details for common people to
understand the role KSA in the middle eastern area politics in
general. But the critical area of concern is its ongoing influence on
the 1.6 billion Muslims living all over the globe. Are they buying
into Wahhabi and Salafi ideology which has an overlap with ISIS
brutal practices in annihilating people randomly. A better
understanding of the complex underlying problem will hopefully
solve this menace diplomatically and peacefully without resorting
to more bloody wars, with tremendous loss of life and resources.
Apologies for any errors and omissions and its limited scope due
to space.

2. Saudi Arabia, Dar-Islam for 1.6 billion
Muslims
Guardian of Muslim Most Holy sites Mecca and
Medina
Father of ISIS ?
Salafi and Wahhabi Islam
Muslim Homeland

3. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 Saudi Arabia founded 23 September 1932
 Population 32.2 million
 Government: Unitary Islamic Absolute Monarchy
 GDP 1.668 Trillion(14th rank)
 Oil discovered 1938,largest producer and distributor, second
largest oil reserves
 Per Capita $53149(12th rank)

4. Riyadh
kingdom Tower illuminated after the Paris deadly
attack 11/17/15

5. Saudi Arabia Muslim Dari slam
 The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) has led to Western
criticism of Saudi Arabia.
 Claiming that the Gulf kingdom, one of the West's most
important allies in the region, is not pulling its weight in the
fight against the Islamic State.
 That the Kingdom promotes a radical brand of Islam which
overlaps with ISIS

6. Saudi Arabia Muslim Dari slam
 Non Muslims argue that the very theology upon which the
Saudi state depends — an ultraconservative brand of Islam
dubbed Wahhabism — is the same as the apocalyptic
distortion of Islam that drives that group to terrible acts. They
argue that, far from being two enemies opposed to each
other, the two powers are hopelessly intertwined.

7. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 A number of human rights scandals in Saudi Arabia
(including cases of public floggings, beheadings and
"crucifixions") have further added fuel to that criticism. In the
aftermath of the Islamic State's attacks in Paris,
Algerian writer Kamel Daoud summed up an article for the
New York Times. "Daesh has a mother: the invasion of Iraq,"
Daoud explained, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic
State. "But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-
industrial complex."

8. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 Saudi Arabia has one of the largest military budgets in the
world. It has been involved in the military fight against the
Islamic State since last year, joining the U.S.-led coalition
against the group in September and before that working with
the United States to train rebels. Remarkably, Saudi princes
even took part in the initial bombing run against the Islamic
State

9. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 However, some analysts believe that the initial willingness to militarily
engage with the Islamic State has ended and that Saudi Arabia and other
Gulf powers are taking a back seat to Western powers in the fight.
 "Beyond the release of a photo purportedly showing F-15 pilots who flew the
initial strike missions in Syria, the Saudis have said nothing about their role
in the U.S.-led coalition," said Jeremy Binnie, Middle East editor at IHS
Jane’s Defense Weekly. Bowen added that the United States has been very
vague about the involvement of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states in the
strikes on the Islamic State

10. Role of KSA in fight against
ISIS
 Disagreements between the Gulf states over the plan of
action may well have been a factor in this withdrawal.
However, it's also likely that the Saudi-led proxy war in
Yemen against Iran-backed forces may well be diverting its
attention.

11. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 On refugees
 An integral part of the crisis in Syria and, by extension, the fight against the Islamic State, has
been the refugee crisis that the civil war has created. The United Nations has estimated that
half of Syria's pre-war population of 23 million has been displaced in the conflict and the
Islamic State has shown itself willing to exploit the chaos for its own gain.
 In Europe and the United States, there has been a wave of criticism against Saudi Arabia and
other Gulf states for their apparent refusal to take significant numbers of refugees in.
Last December, Amnesty International accused these states of offering "zero resettlement
places to Syrian refugees."
 Months later, Saudi Arabia hit back at these criticisms, saying that it had in fact given
residency to a huge 2.5 million or so Syrian refugees. It has also made significant donations to
the U.N. refugee agency, it said, totaling at least $90 million in 2015.

12. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 . Experts have concluded that Saudi Arabia has taken in a large
number of Syrians, though it has not been transparent in how it
went about this and it has not given them the rights that refugee
status would confer. Instead, most seem to come into the
country on visas for foreign workers. “made it a point not to deal
with them as refugees” and that it had not wanted to “to show off
or brag in the media."

13. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 In June 2014, Lori Plotkin Boghardt of the Washington Institute
published a policy analysis, concluded that "no credible evidence that
the Saudi government is financially supporting ISIS."
 Boghardt did note that there appeared to have been significant numbers
of donations to the group from private Saudi citizens, despite the Saudi
state's attempts to block these fundraising efforts. "Arab Gulf donors as
a whole — of which Saudis are believed to be the most charitable —
have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria in recent years,
including to ISIS and other groups," Boghardt noted.

14. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 It's believed that at least 2,500 Saudis have traveled to Syria
to fight for the Islamic State, making the country one of
the main sources of foreign recruits for the organization.

15. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 On theology
 While the Islamic State and the Saudi kingdom view each other as enemies,
it is hard to deny that there are many areas of crossover in their theological
viewpoints.
 According to a report from the New York Times' David Kirkpatrick, when the
Islamic State began closing schools in the areas it conquered, it actually
printed out copies of Saudi state textbooks it found online. Others have
noted that some of the Islamic State's most notorious penalties — death by
stoning for adultery, for example — can often be found in Saudi Arabia
(though they are used with far more discretion in the kingdom).

16. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 "Reform-minded Saudis called for the reevaluation of the educational system and
curricula, they advised deletion of materials that t fostered intolerance and extremism,”
 Additionally, the country has made a big investment in institutions that are designed to
reform extremists and terrorists.
 Most Saudi officials and members of the ruling elite would favor some kind of reform in
their country but that they are beholden to the Wahhabi clerics who hold significant
sway there.
 While the Saudi state has clamped down on the preachers who espouse support for
the Islamic State, those who preach a sectarianism that feeds into extremism have not
been targeted.

17. Saudi Arabia Muslim Darislam
 One big worry is that, ultimately, Saudi Arabia is simply more focused
on its sectarian fight against Iran, the regional Shiite power, than the
Islamic State, a weaker yet still dangerous Sunni threat.
 "There is also a sense that ISIS, ugly as it may seem, is actually a
useful temporary ally for Saudi Arabia so long as it can be corralled in
the direction of Iran and its allies rather than Sunni majority states. The
latter will likely trump any pressure that may be placed on Riyadh from
the U.S., France, etc."

18. Education in KSA
 Saudi curriculum is not just dominated by Islam but suffers from Wahhabi dogma that
propagates hatred towards non-Muslim and non-Wahhabis and lacks technical and other
education useful for productive employment
Memorization by rote of large parts of the Qu'ran, its interpretation and
understandingTafsir) and the application of Islamic tradition to everyday life is at the core of the
curriculum.
 Religion taught in this manner is also a compulsory subject for all University students. As a
consequence, Saudi youth "generally lacks the education and technical skills the private
sector needs”
 The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote in 2010 that "the country needs educated young
Saudis with marketable skills and a capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship. That's not
generally what Saudi Arabia's educational system delivers, steeped as it is in rote learning
and religious instruction.

19. KSA propaganda of Wahhabi Islam
 "the Saudi public school religious curriculum continues to
propagate an ideology of hate toward the 'unbeliever', that is,
Christians, Jews, Shiites, Sufis, Sunni Muslims who do not
follow Wahhabi doctrine
 Saudi Arabia sponsors and promotes the teaching of
Wahhabism ideology which is adopted Nusra Front. This radical
teaching takes place in Saudi funded mosques and madrasas
across the region from Morocco, Pakistan to Indonesia, and the
West.

20. Poverty in KSA
 Poverty
 Estimates of the number of Saudis below the poverty line range
from between 12.7%[378] and 25%[379] Press reports and private
estimates as of 2013 "suggest that between 2 million and 4
million" of the country's native Saudis live on "less than about
$530 a month" – about $17 a day – considered the poverty line
in Saudi Arabia. In contrast, Forbes magazine estimates King
Abdullah's personal fortune at $18 billion.[379]

21. Educational Reform in KSA
 Following the 9/11 attacks, the government aimed to tackle the twin
problems of encouraging extremism and the inadequacy of the country's
university education for a modern economy, by slowly modernize the
education system through the "Tatweer" reform program.[419] The Tatweer
program is reported to have a budget of approximately US$2 billion and
focuses on moving teaching away from the traditional Saudi methods of
memorization and rote learning towards encouraging students to analyze
and problem-solve. It also aims to create an education system which will
provide a more secular and vocationally based training.[409][421]

22. Religion is Mandatory
 Islam is the state religion of Saudi Arabia and its law requires that all
citizens be Muslims.[311] Neither Saudi citizens nor guest workers have
the right of freedom of religion.The official and dominant form of Islam in
the kingdom – Wahhabism—arose in the central region of Najd, the
eighteenth century. Proponents call the movement "Salafism",[297] and
believe that its teachings purify the practice of Islam of innovations or
practices that deviate from the seventh-century teachings of
Muhammad and his companions.

23. Religious Police in KSA
 Saudi is one of the few countries that have “religious police" (known as
Haia or Mutaween), who patrol the streets "enjoining good and
forbidding wrong" by enforcing dress codes, strict separation of men
and women, attendance at prayer (salat) five times each day, the ban
on alcohol, and other aspects of Sharia (Islamic law). (In the privacy of
the home behavior can be far looser, and reports from the Daily Mail
and WikiLeaks indicate that the ruling Saudi Royal family applies a
different moral code to itself, indulging in parties, drugs and sex.[313])

24. Women in KSA
 In public women are required to wear a black abaya or other
black clothing that covers everything under the neck with the
exception of their hands and feet, although most women cover
their head in respect for their religion. This requirement applies
to non Muslim women too and failure to abide can result in
police action, particularly in more conservative areas of the
country. Women's clothes are often decorated with tribal motifs,
coins, sequins, metallic thread, and appliques.

25. Wahhabi Practices
 Celebration of other (non-Wahhabi) Islamic holidays, such as the
Muhammad's birthday and the Day of Ashura, (an important holiday
for the 10–25% of the population that is Shīʿa Muslim), are tolerated
only when celebrated locally and on a small scale.
 [ Shia also face systematic discrimination in employment, education,
the justice system according to Human Rights Watch.[
 Non-Muslim festivals like Christmas and Easter are not tolerated at
all, although there are nearly a million Christians as well as Hindus
and Buddhists among the foreign workers.

26. Wahhabism Doctrine
 Commanding right and forbidding wrong
 Wahhabism is noted for its policy of "compelling its own
followers and other Muslims strictly to observe the religious
duties of Islam, such as the five prayers", and for "enforcement
of public morals to a degree not found elsewhere".[
 While other Muslims might urge abstention from alcohol, modest
dress, and Salat prayer but following the preaching and practice
of Abdul Wahhabi that coercion should be used to enforce
following of sharia,
 The so-called "religious police”) in Saudi Arabia—the one
country founded with the help of Wahhabi warriors and whose
scholars and pious dominate many aspects of the Kingdom's
life. Committee "field officers" enforce strict closing of shops at
prayer time, segregation of the sexes, prohibition of the sale and
consumption of alcohol, driving of motor vehicles by women,
and other social restrictions.

27. Wahhabism Origin
 Regions
 Wahhabism originated in the Najd region, Glasse credits the softening
of some Wahhabi doctrines and practices on the conquest of the Hejaz
region "with its more cosmopolitan traditions and the traffic of pilgrims
which the new rulers could not afford to alienate”.
 The only other country "whose native population is Wahhabi and that
adheres to the Wahhabi creed", is the small gulf monarchy of Qatar,
whose version of Wahhabism is notably less strict. Unlike Saudi Arabia,
Qatar made significant changes in the 1990s. Women are now allowed
to drive and travel independently; non-Muslims are permitted to
consume alcohol and pork. The country sponsors a film festival, has
"world-class art museums", World Cup, and has no religious force that
polices public morality. Qatari's attribute its different interpretation of
Islam to the absence of an indigenous clerical class and autonomous
bureaucracy (religious affairs authority, endowments, Grand Mufti), the
fact that Qatari rulers do not derive their legitimacy from such a class.

28. Wahhabism Beliefs
 Defining aspects of Wahhabism include:
 Strict adherence to the athari school of divinity, including the
affirmation of the "clear" (i.e. exoteric or literal) meaning of
the Qur'an, and especially the prophetic traditions. Atharis
engage in an amodal reading of the Qur'an, as opposed to
one engaged in Ta'wil (metaphorical interpretation)
 Opposition to the practice of grave veneration and the act of
tawassul through other than Allah tawhid into three parts as
according to Ibn Taymiyyah, elucidated in the theological
mansucript Kitab al Tawhid written by Abdul Wahhab

29. Wahhabism and Women's rights
 Senior Wahhabi leaders in Saudi Arabia have determined
that Islam forbids the traveling or working outside the home
by a woman without their husband’s.
 Wahhabism also forbids the driving of motor vehicles by
women. Sexual intercourse out of wedlock may be punished
with beheading[230] although sex out of wedlock is permissible
with a slave women

30. Salafism
The Salafi movement is often described as being
synonymous with Wahhabism, but Salafists
consider the term "Wahhabi" derogatory. At other
times, Salafism has been described as a hybrid of
Wahhabism and other post-1960s movements.
No need to split hairs ,terms are interchangable

31. Reform in Wahhabi practices
 Foreign non-Muslim troops are forbidden in Arabia, except when the king
needed them to confront Saddam Hussein in 1990; gender mixing of men
and women is forbidden, and fraternization with non-Muslims is discouraged,
but not at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Movie theaters and driving by women are forbidden, except at Aramco.
 And more general rules of what is permissible have changed over time.
Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud imposed Wahhabi doctrines and practices "in a
progressively gentler form" as his early 20th-century conquests expanded
his state into urban areas, especially the Hejab. After vigorous debate
Wahhabi religious authorities in Saudi Arabia allowed the use of paper
money (in 1951), the abolition of slavery (in 1962), education of females
(1964), and use of television (1965). Music, the sound of which once might
have led to summary execution, is now commonly heard on Saudi radios.
Minarets for mosques and use of funeral markers, which were once
forbidden, are now allowed. Prayer attendance which was once enforced by
flogging, is no longer. [235]

32. KSA as a Homeland for Muslims
 Muslims are allowed to enter KSA to perform Annual Hajj
(pilgrimage) and visas are granted for a few weeks of stay in
Jeddah, Mecca and Medina.
 Workers are allowed temporary visas and permanent
residency and citizenship not permissible.
 Muslims cannot opt to go and settle in KSA.
 It is utopia for 1.6 billion Muslims to think KSA is their
homeland.. A tragic myth!

33. What Muslims can do ?
 Study this presentation and reflect and draw your
conclusions regarding whether Saudi practices make sense
in this day and age
 Don’t feel guilty or be under peer pressure to adhere to these
rigid rules if you cannot follow them. Keep an open mind and
have broader perspective, hope and unselfishness pays off.
 Follow the civil and criminal judiciary laws of the country of
residence and encourage public education over madrasas for
your children.
 Read about other religions, literature and critical articles and
other controversial subjects. Education is antidote to
radicalism and ignorance is an evil.

34. Conclusion
 What Muslims need to ask what they are about, what they
represent , how they want to be perceived, how they want to
live in a multicultural predominantly non-Muslim society,
What values and belief system they practice and what they
teach their children to lead a happy and successful life
without worrying about, Is the price too high? Or risk too
great and how fellow Muslims will treat them?