The Saudi Arabian News newspaper began publishing lists of what it called “promoters of hate”. As defined by editor-in-chief Faisal Abbas, this list aims to track and document “extremist ideologies, hold clerics, writers and activists accountable for their actions, and examine the impact of their words on people in the world.” The irony is that before 2017 – a time before Mohammed bin Salman ascended to power as crown prince and de facto head of the kingdom, writers and intellectuals advocating openness and pluralism were imprisoned for years, the prepared accusations and lists of blasphemy were hanged on the gallows, who at the time were called “secularists”, to discredit them and their writings.

Today, the “Kingdom of Entertainment” has thrown away its entire history of producing extremism and extremists … The country is famous for stick-breaking parties, and clerics lined up at the Emir’s palace to ban sports in women’s schools, and ban parties, music, films and books … All this ended, at the will of Ibn Salman, with the easing of the extremist-religious nature of the rule of the Saudi family, the symbol of which is the “ follows”, which is the religious body of the state and its leading guardian. They publicly promoted their hatred of societal alienation and openness to anyone outside their Wahhabi cloak until the Emir’s order was issued to eliminate all those who refused the new policy, from entertainment to refusal to normalize to the Zionists. The stain of terrorism is ready to be thrown at anyone who angers His Majesty or opposes his new policies. For this reason, according to the English-language newspaper, a “hate list” has emerged, because “terrorism has no color, no faith, no unique political ideology. We do not discriminate against any religion, nationality, gender or political opinion. We will expose preachers of hate from Muslims, Jews, Christians or any other religion, including the Saudis.”
Arab News supplemented the written reports with audio and video recordings that condemned all those on the list on the grounds that “there may be no tolerance for intolerance.” About 29 titles started a newspaper that appeared in Riyadh. The carefully selected list does not include the names of George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, the architects of the war in Iraq, even Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres and Netanyahu, the architects of the wars in Arabs and Palestinians. . The list includes the names of local and Western clerics in Saudi Arabia, who lived up to their personal and public glory when the kingdom’s regime urged “jihad” in Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya, as well as names of Jewish clerics. , Western bloggers, Asian Buddhist and Hindu celebrities known for their extremism and hatred towards Arabs and Muslims.
At the top of the Saudi list is the name of the Saudi cleric Saeed al-Ghamdi, whose criticism can be found in his book “Doctrinal Deviation in Modern Literature and Modern Ideology” against modern literature influenced by Western schools of thought as “an ideological. deviation from Islam and part of a conspiracy against religion.” Al-Ghamdi’s account does not include that he spent most of his life in the Kingdom and received his academic education in its universities, and was also appointed as an assistant professor of faith at the Sharia College of King Khalid University. in the city of Abha…until the wave of entertainment and social modernization pursued by Mohammed bin Salman hit. A wave that Al-Ghamdi describes as a Western conspiracy through “colonialism” in the name of development, as he puts it.
Also named was Omar Abdulaziz, a Saudi-based activist and YouTube blogger. Omar rose to fame years ago for his “Fitna” program, criticizing the policies of the Saudi regime, from his exile in Montreal, Canada. Abdulaziz collaborated with Jamal Khashoggi on several projects, including an “electronic bee army” in exchange for the Riyadh government’s “electronic flies.” After Khashoggi was killed in his country’s consulate in Turkey in October 2018, Omar is working on a new program called Say It and Go. The phrase Khashoggi used to identify himself on Twitter. In a Saudi newspaper report, blogger Abdel Aziz was accused of supporting ISIS in Syria and Iraq and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
Preacher Safar al-Khawali, mentioned on Arab News hate lists, protested before his arrest that the Saudi Arabian government spent about $65 billion on entertainment and theaters, asking: “Isn’t it more better spend these billions on preparing for jihad? “
According to the report, the preacher Salman al-Awda became the voice of the “Islamic Awakening” in the eighties and nineties when he considered television a work of the devil, but he returned and gained his fame locally and socially Gulf through it. Even a program on the MTV channel was devoted to presenting his ideas. with me. C” titled “Life is a word”. Al-Auda was one of the scientists who rejected the idea of ​​Westernization and the presence of American bases in the Kingdom and the Persian Gulf, where he was arrested many times. The last time was in September 2017 because, according to Amnesty International, it was a tweet in which he welcomed the possible reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The reconciliation between the Gulf brothers was finally concluded, but Al-Auda remained in custody until further notice!
He joined the “promoters of hate” Awad Al-Qarni, a professor at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. Al-Qarni was for many years the star of Saudi channels and their favorite mufti. It all ended after the Persian Gulf dispute with Qatar. According to the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, which deals with terrorism cases.
Long list and carefully written materials from which we chose the name of the Indian singer Lakshmi Dube, whose saying “every house will be saffron”, contributing to the dominance of Hinduism in all religion in the Indian continent. Dube decorated the backgrounds of his songs, painting them with colors representing Hinduism or what became known as “saffron pop” adopted by extremist nationalists, and swearing in the lyrics of his songs. to kill anyone who obstructs the construction. of the “God Rama” temple on the site of the Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya in the north of the country, which dates back to the sixteenth century.
Frenchman Robert Menard, one of the founders of Reporters Without Borders and remained its head until 2008, also made the list. But since being elected mayor of Béziers in the south of France, he has made no secret of his outspoken anti-immigration and anti-Muslim views. The report says that after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, Menard made outspoken anti-Islam statements, saying that Muslims only hate the West and nothing but “their religion is insoluble in democracy”!

For years, ready-made accusations and blasphemous lists of “secularists” were hung on the gallows to discredit them and their writings.

Among the Americans is Pamela Geller, an activist against the presence of Islam in the United States. It hosted a cartoon competition called “Draw a Prophet”, with the winner receiving a prize of $10,000. According to Geller, after founding Stop the Islamization of America, Geller became the executive director of Stop the Islamization of Nations, which “aims to build a global coalition to counter the spread of Islamic law.”
So, the new leader of Saudi Arabia laid out his alternative plan for Saudi rebirth: destroy the network of clerics and the extremist industry that marked the face of the kingdom for decades, and give the people more more social freedom and entertainment in exchange for acceptance. political power full of tyranny.