{"id":55171,"date":"2017-05-19T02:18:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T02:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55171"},"modified":"2017-05-19T02:18:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T02:18:35","slug":"two-sides-of-the-saudi-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55171","title":{"rendered":"Two sides of the Saudi coin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; sunni \/ salafi hope, shia fear, when the us weighs saudi oil against iranian nukes &#8212; what say the sufis? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context one:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First stop on Trump\u2019s first official trip overseas signals Saudi Arabia\u2019s importance <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kIfCiVesxh\">https:\/\/t.co\/kIfCiVesxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blogs of War (@BlogsofWar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlogsofWar\/status\/865343769339731968\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context two:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iraqi Christians visit Imam Hussain shrine in Kerbala &amp; pray at one of the oldest churches in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMG5UcmadB\">https:\/\/t.co\/NMG5UcmadB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iraq?src=hash\">#Iraq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jvOm6GCSNT\">pic.twitter.com\/jvOm6GCSNT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICID (@IraqiCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiCouncil\/status\/865344516135559170\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beautiful. It&#39;s this wonderful coexistence, diversity and tolerance that Saudi Arabia, ISIS and Al-Qaeda fear. They all want to erase this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/evPJqPJMcq\">https:\/\/t.co\/evPJqPJMcq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayder al-Khoei (@Hayder_alKhoei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayder_alKhoei\/status\/865345678272331776\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having said that, returning to the Saudi visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hayder al-Khoei<\/strong> is less than enthused:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the aim of Donald Trump&#39;s visit to Saudi Arabia \u2013 and it isn&#39;t good for Shia communities <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n3EJlJCVXU\">https:\/\/t.co\/n3EJlJCVXU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayder al-Khoei (@Hayder_alKhoei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayder_alKhoei\/status\/865250963489267712\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fisk: The aim is simple: to prepare the Sunni Muslims of the Middle East for war against the Shia Muslims. With help from Israel. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pt?src=hash\">#pt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayder al-Khoei (@Hayder_alKhoei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayder_alKhoei\/status\/865339474397601792\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The fact that most of the Middle East\u2019s \u201cterrorism\u201d \u2013 Isis and al-Qaeda \u2013 have their fountainhead in Saudi, must and will be ignored. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pt?src=hash\">#pt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayder al-Khoei (@Hayder_alKhoei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayder_alKhoei\/status\/865339752354127872\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fisk: The fact that Isis \u2013 Trump\u2019s mortal enemy \u2013 is a creature of the same Salafist cult as Saudi Arabia, is neither here nor there. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pt?src=hash\">#pt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayder al-Khoei (@Hayder_alKhoei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayder_alKhoei\/status\/865340167858663425\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; sunni \/ salafi hope, shia fear, when the us weighs saudi oil against iranian nukes &#8212; what say the sufis? ] . Context one: First stop on Trump\u2019s first official trip overseas signals Saudi Arabia\u2019s importance https:\/\/t.co\/kIfCiVesxh &mdash; Blogs of War (@BlogsofWar) May 18, 2017 ** Context two: Iraqi Christians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,526,93,45,1078,1047,753,90,1082,786,446,714,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-charles-cameron","category-iran","category-iraq","category-is","category-isis","category-islam","category-nuclear","category-oil","category-saudi-arabia","category-shia","category-sufi","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55191,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55171\/revisions\/55191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}