Why Many Muslims Hate the West. (You probably won't read this post.)

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73. Again, oversimplified blame-whiteyism

The alliance between al-Wahhab's group and the ibn Saud family extend back to the 1700s, and they had conquered the whole area before the Ottomans restricted them to one region. When the British became the big dogs, it was Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud who played nice with them and held back the Wahhabis, who naturally hated the British as much as any outsiders. The great dominance of the ulama stared really long afterwards in the mid to late 20th century, and this time the Saud family, which had massively intermarried with the descendants of al-Wahhab, were either uninterested in or unable to hold back their doctrinal theocratic and xenophobic excess that far predated the British.