In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the ‘Holy Kingdom’

King Salman (R) and MBS

Saudi loyalists and the world’s media are erroneously portraying Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), as the architect of the recent radical moves by the Saudi government. 

On Tuesday 5th March, British newspaper, Guardian, cited an anonymous source, who said King Salman and the crown prince he selected himself are increasingly at odds on issues such as Yemen war.

They try to obfuscate the fact that the crown prince was installed by his father, King Salman, who is still alive and well. A prince is a prince and is ever a subordinate of a King pending when he becomes King himself. 

Bin Salman will never order the arrest of anyone in the kingdom without the knowledge and tacit approval of his father. 

Hence, the vision 2030, secularization of Saudi Arabia, the bloody war in Yemen, arrest and murder of Islamic scholars and activists, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October, normalizing ties with Israel and all other initiatives that have been ascribed to the crown prince have been in error; those initiatives were fashioned in the name of the king, and the kingdom; the prince is only a henchman- a patsy or better still; a fall guy. 

The kingdom figured it would be highly immoral for a reigning king to directly spearhead such vain ambitions so, they put the spotlight on a neophyte whose naivety could be blamed in the wake of criticism. 

The similitude of this is America recruiting a mentally unstable Donald Trump to do the dirty deals for the current period so that the ‘holy’ name of American policy would be left intact. 

In the future, American politicians would only look back and say, ‘It wasn’t America’s fault, we only happened to have a lunatic for president at that time.'