Oil Will Write Our Epitaph

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Demo before Saudi Embassy to protest financing of Salafis

Members of the Egyptian Shia community and several people claiming descent from the family of the Prophet Mohamed staged a protest on Tuesday before the Saudi embassy in Cairo, protesting against the involvement of Saudi Arabia in the funding of Salafi groups.
They claim Saudi Arabia is financing the Salafis in order to incite sectarian strife and disrupt Egyptian national unity.
A number of Coptic Christians joined the protests and raised banners condemning Saudi Arabia for hosting the deposed Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and interfering in Egypt’s internal affairs.
“This is the second time since the revolution that we have staged protests to warn against the Wahabi influence,” said leading Shia figure Mohamed al-Dariny. “The government should put Saudi Arabia and those Salafis under the microscope.”

The Salafi groups were involved in the recent burning of a Coptic Christian Church, and have been a source of intolerance for a long, long time. Their fundamentalist organizations have been funded by Saudi Arabia for an equally long time.

What do you want to bet that we ignore Egypt? That we refuse to engage with them as helpful, sometimes critical, friends in their move to the future? Why? Because we are too much in thrall to Saudi oil.
Oil will write our epitaph.
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