A Saudi Official's Rare Reflection on Extremism's Roots | "Bitter Rivals" | FRONTLINE
February 20, 2018
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as posted by the channelIn Saudi Arabia, it can be rare for leaders to openly acknowledge any link between the kingdom’s ultra-conservative strain of Islam known as Wahhabism, and the global rise of extremism and terrorism. Instead, the government frequently blames extremism on the kingdom’s arch-nemesis, Iran.
But in a conversation with FRONTLINE’s Martin Smith, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Adel Al-Jubeir makes a rare on-camera reflection -- telling Smith that while he primarily blames Iran’s Shia revolution for sparking a rise in Sunni extremist ideologies that were eventually adopted by Al Qaeda and ISIS, Saudi Arabia deserves some blame, too.
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