Imagine you are a newly formed Muslim country in the 1930s with vast, open borders.
One day, you strike black gold and become rich overnight.
Now, you are a massive target. And you know it.
You don't even have the infrastructure to extract or sell oil yourself. An American company, Standard Oil (which later became Aramco), steps in to build it.
But extracting and selling oil in a volatile region requires security. So, you rely on your own limited means and foreign partnerships to protect the fields.
But as your wealth grows, so does the danger.
Fast forward to 1990. Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. His massive army is now sitting right on your border, ready to march into the heart of the Gulf.
So, who do you call for help? You look around at your Muslim and Arab neighbors. You ask for an Arab force. But the Arab world is divided, and the forces sent are too small to stop a massive invasion.
Saudi Arabia is left with a choice: wait for a divided Arab world to save them, or call the only superpower willing to protect them.
They turn to America. But they don't just do it on a whim. They consult the senior scholars. Fatwas are given by scholars like Shaykh Ibn Baz, permitting foreign troops to defend the land.
Think about it. If a Muslim breaks into your house and attacks your family, do you refuse to call the non-Muslim police? Do you let your family die just because the police officer isn't a Muslim?
No. You use the means available to protect your blood and your wealth. This is the exact same thing, just on a larger scale.
Operation Desert Shield wasn't about helping the West; it was about saving the Gulf from a tyrant.
Look at Iran today. They play their tricks through proxies.
They have repeatedly tried to overthrow the Sunni government in Bahrain, forcing Saudi troops to intervene. The Houthis turned Yemen into rubble. And we all know what Hezbollah and Bashar did in Lebanon and Syria.
What do you expect?
That the Gulf sits completely defenseless and lets missiles rain down on their cities?
That they fight ballistic missiles with sticks and slogans?
To be clear: There are no permanent, U.S. owned sovereign bases in Saudi Arabia. These are Saudi military facilities and the U.S. is a guest, operating under strict Saudi control.
The wealth Allah gave them required protection. The Haramain required protection. And they took the means to protect it.
This is the reality that naive people don’t understand while they sit on a sofa in the West issuing fatwas of Kufr.
@ahmadhamadien إيران هي اللي قطعت العلاقات عام 1979 بسبب كامب ديفيد وليس بطلب خليجي، واقتصادها المحاصر اصلاً لم يمنح مصر يوماً هذا الرقم ولا يملكه، اترك سواليف السعه
My next fight is one of the last in my career.
They say Prates is too dangerous for me and Morales is too good for me.
So I want to face the best of them and prove to the world once again who is the best in world.
@Moh_MW انا اشوف انه بالعكس الحين هذا يثبت ان فيه سوق مستعمل لقطع الذكاء الاصطناعي وهذا ازدهار في المجال، واللي يوريك قد ايش المجال في مجال للنمو ويحتاج قطع زيادة انه قد بيع بالفعل
ازدواجية معايير ونفاق علني ، لمجرد ان شخص يشترك معك بقبيلة تتغاضى عن كل ما قاله ولم تنكر عليه حتى ، نفاق
قال عز وجل: وَإِذَا قُلْتُمْ فَاعْدِلُوا وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا قُرْبَى الأنعام: 152
ما كل عودة تستحق الحشود
ولا كل شخص يستحق أن يُستقبل وكأنه بطل
التوبة بين العبد وربه، لكن التطبيل للمعصية ورفع أصحابها فوق قدرهم مصيبة بحد ذاتها
اللهم لا تجعلنا ممن يزيّنون الباطل، وارزقنا البصيرة والثبات على الحق، واهدِنا جميعًا