What makes you assume that? In the Arabian Gulf States the Sunni population apply this rule. Some Muslim Brotherhood terrorist-sympathising leftists try to infiltrate and distort that, and they have been largely successful in Qatar, but it remains in the head of the people. It is simple.

I will give you an example: my close friends from the Shammar tribe were once at war with the Saudis and allies. They took over Riyadh at one point, and ruled Nejd between the Second and Third Saudi States. During that time the Aal-Rasheed ruling family were greatly unpopular in what is now the provinces of al-Qassim and ar-Riyadh. The people however, did not revolt against them, and merely had patience with the motto "we hear and we obey" (our ruler) being foremost above their preferred Aal-Saud overlords especially in al-Qassim. They waited until Abdulaziz Bin Abdurahman al-Faisal aal-Saud came out from Kuwait and took back his family's kingdom.

Did they patiently wait, or were they just afraid of severe punishment if they rebelled? Just because a ruler remains long in power does not mean that there are no attempts to overthrow him. And if power changes in a dictatorship, things often become violent. In a democracy, change of power is expected and bloodless.

Also, one has to note that if a dictator consolidates his power so much that overthrow is impossible, then the society is so repressive that no progress will be possible. Both fascist and communist societies had severe restrictions on freedom of thought and speech. Saudi Arabia implements censorship of the internet. People will think and know what the Saudi government wants, not necessarily what is good for them.

But America does the same thing in a more subtle way... it uses it's propaganda machine to make people think that everything apart from the government's position is foolish. That's why Western politics are always alternating between centre-leftism and centre-rightism.

All countries use propaganda to some degree. There is lots of American propaganda, and there is lots of anti-American propaganda. Still, nobody is forced to watch American propaganda if they don't want to. They can turn off the TV or not visit US propaganda websites. But it's more difficult, if not illegal, to circumvent government internet censorship, like the one in Saudi Arabia.

Minority opinions might be viewed as foolish in the USA, but they are not illegal or censored. Clearly, the USA is superior to Saudi Arabia here.

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Clearly Saudi Arabia is superior here. Saudi Arabia doesn't degrade people merely for holding an opinion.
If it goes against the religion, they just flog or behead them depending on the severity, and they take preventative measures to protect the population. Only things like pornography or dissident blogs are censored. It's not like the whole internet filters out the minute detail which might insult the royal family... also, all censored websites are done so on the request of a member of the public. It is then reviewed by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and action is taken accordingly.

In my honest opinion, I see no difference between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Wow, Saudi Arabia is so humane. They don't ridicule dissident opinions, they just murder all dissidents. Funny how you claim that beheading religious dissidents is "protecting the population".

Only things like pornography or dissident blogs are censored.

How open-minded of Saudi Arabia! Only porn and differing opinions are censored! Poor Americans, they have it so bad!

It's not like the whole internet filters out the minute detail which might insult the royal family...

So criticism of the royal family is forbidden... and nobody knows exactly what constitutes criticism of the royal family. How convenient. If a government official doesn't like somebody, he can just accuse them of insulting the king! After all, what's insulting is subjective.

also, all censored websites are done so on the request of a member of the public. It is then reviewed by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice

And the government isn't part of the public? Of course they can censor whatever they want. Also, I love the name of that ministry. It's like just out of 1984.

"the overthrow, trial and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraq" Not a revolution

"the far-right-led Euromaidan revolution which led to the overthrow of the Yanukovich regime Ukraine" Not far right - what media do you read to miss this?

"the revolution and the overthrow of Communism in post-Tito Yugoslavia which led to the formation of seven separate states..." Obviously a fallacy as Tito was a revolutionary himself. - For you to say what came after was bad you need to admit that his revolution was good. Which would disprove your point.

"What do revolutions bring about except chaos and insurrection?" - Wasn't The Prophet Muhammad a revolutionary himself ... Oh sorry that doesn't work with your argument either ... we'll just move on ey?

Talking about prophets ... Jesus Christ he's a Muslim prophet ... and oh damn ... a revolutionary too, peaceful but yeah still a revolutionary.

Washington (American Independence), Ghandi (Indian self rule), Nelson Mandela (Ended Apartheid), Emmeline Pankhurst (Won British women the vote, Women's suffrage) Martin Luther King & Rosa Parks (American Civil Rights movement), William Wilberforce (A major player in illegalizing the British slave trade) etc etc ...

Oh I forgot one ... the Al Sauds ... revolted against Ottoman rule in The Arabian Peninsula leading to the formation of errr ... Saudi Arabia.

Now if the Al Sauds had been good Muslims like you suggest:

in a famous tradition which has been verified that you should "Obey your ruler even if he beats your back and takes your wealth", and also "even if he is an Abyssinian slave" (from an unprivileged background).

They would have obeyed the Caliph in Istanbul.

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And the Sauds when they finally succeeded to conquer territories which would become later Saudi Arabia (you can see here how modest they are giving their family name to an entire nation) with the help of the British, they brought Salafism and Wahhabism as the dominant sect of Islam in Saudi Arabia and surrounding states (Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad bin Saud were allied).
Their retrograde vision helped greatly to develop some obnoxious ideologies, and as a real contributing factor it led to what we know today: Islamist terrorism, intolerance, hatred and violence, everything here comes from those obscurantist Wahhabi/Salafi ideologies. Because Wahhabism is truly the fountainhead of Islamist terrorism.
Not really suprising to see that the historical Al Qaeda leader, Usama Bin Laden came from a very important Arab family supporting the Al Saud.

Giving you some really worrisome figures and infos:

"It would be troublesome but perhaps acceptable for the House of Saud to promote the intolerant and extremist Wahhabi creed just domestically. But, unfortunately, for decades the Saudis have also lavishly financed its propagation abroad. Exact numbers are not known, but it is thought that more than $100 billion have been spent on exporting fanatical Wahhabism to various much poorer Muslim nations worldwide over the past three decades. It might well be twice that number. By comparison, the Soviets spent about $7 billion spreading communism worldwide in the 70 years from 1921 and 1991."

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Ska2D2 is the epitamy of the sad state of the infected minds of the post-Cold War West.

You made a few mistakes in your terrible analogy of my speech...

First of all you stated that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was not a revolution. Revolution or not, the Shi'ite militia assisted the Americans extensively during the invasion. My point remains unanswered.

Secondly, you have said that the Euromaidan protests which led to the Yanukovich's regime to be overthrown was not far-right led. The group which led the entire movement was the right-sector. They are fascist in ideology. The militias which morphed out of the right-sector-led Euromaidan movement include full-blown Nazis such as Azov Battalion. You need to get yourself educated. I generally only read BBC News, so I haven't been reading any Russian propaganda, I assure you.

Thirdly, you have suggested that the Prophet Muhammad was a revolutionary. Guess what? Wrong again! He was not a revolutionary at all, and he did not lead any kind of revolution against anyone. When the Prophet was being oppressed against by the pagans from his own tribe, he never rose up against them or tried to take them over. He only became a leader of a state when it was decided by the tribes of al-Madinah to give him rulership over their city due to their recent conversion to Islam.

Fourthly (yes, you made this many factually incorrect statements), the Aal-Saud of Nejd never revolted against the Ottoman Empire at all. Whoever told you that the Ottoman Sultanate was a Caliphate is highly misinformed. The Ottomans never even considered themselves to be the Caliphate until World War One when they adopted the title in order to convince Indian Muslims to revolt against British rule.
From the characteristics which they lacked in order to become the Caliphs was the rule of every Muslim land in the world and they had to have been a descendant of the tribe of Quraysh. They possesed neither of these characteristics, and actually the Saudis had already ruled over Dir'iyyah even before the rise of the First Saudi State. They never revolted against anything. The Ottomans never controlled Nejd, and the Saudis already had a State before they were destroyed by the Ottomans. The spiritual leaders of the Saudi State held that revolt against a Muslim ruler is impermissible, and they would never violate this, as it would make them Khawaarij or renegades against Islam.

Please revise your facts before spewing nonsensical garbage.
Thanks,
HRHCPCH(TRF)

Their retrograde vision helped greatly to develop some obnoxious ideologies, and as a real contributing factor it led to what we know today: Islamist terrorism, intolerance, hatred and violence, everything here comes from those obscurantist Wahhabi/Salafi ideologies. Because Wahhabism is truly the fountainhead of Islamist terrorism.
Not really suprising to see that the historical Al Qaeda leader, Usama Bin Laden came from a very important Arab family supporting the Al Saud.

^Implying that the Saudis invented a new type of religion. Complete and utter misinformation.

Most sane scholars and professors of history and "Islamist terrorism" know that the modern al-Qaeda and ISIL are not born out of Wahhabism. Osama Bin Laden wasn't extreme before he left Saudi Arabia.

No, al-Qaeda and ISIL are actually born out of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt. They are Marxist Leninist Socialist revolutionaries who believe that the "rectification of the Muslim nation" will only come about by a "Muslim-wide revolution against all the Western puppet governments of the Islamic world". They are Sufi Ashari in origin, and not Salafi.

Not worth replying to you. :)

Travel, read, study, talk to educated people. Then it may be worth having a conversation with you. I won't hold my breath though you seem pretty set in your ways.

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I am pretty moderate. I do not condone terrorists like Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, al-Shabab, ISIL or Boko Haram.

You're an idiot

I don't condone terrorists!

Congratulations, you're like most people. Still doesn't counter what Ska2d2 said. Actually, now that I think about it, not a single thing you've said has legitimately countered him. It's just ad-hominem and tu quoque

It's my debating style. Get as much out of him, degrade him, then accuse him of backtracking.

He slaughter of Jews who did not accept his religion, he fought in Mecca and subdued the pagan tribes.
So yes, he fought not much but fight, and if it is against opinion of Muhammad, why his heirs did conquering the Middle East and North Africa?

I slaughter Jews and Muslims all the time, and then I roast them and eat their balls because I like it.