Turkey and Saudi Arabia responsible for the growth of extremism

A prominent Russian analyst took Turkey and Saudi Arabia responsible for the growth of extremism in his country, and said extremism has penetrated into Russia through the promotion of Wahhabism in the country.

“The phenomenon of religious extremism was created among Muslim Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Rais Souleimanov, a senior analyst with Russia’s national strategy institute, told FNA.

He explained that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Riyadh and Ankara sent their religious missionaries to the region, built religious schools and mosques, trained the Russian children and sent a large number of Russian youth to Saudi Arabia and Turkey to study religious courses.

“The Soviet Union Muslims did not at all have the problem of religious extremism, but today this phenomenon is a reality of this atmosphere and is threatening countries’ stability and security as well as materialization of their numerous political, economic and social plans,” Souleimanov said.

In relevant remarks in January, US Senator Richard H. Black said that the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar are giving unequivocal support to the ISIL terrorists operating in the Middle-East, stressing that America along with its western and Arab allies are seeking to turn the region into a safe haven for terrorists in an attempt to achieve their vicious goals.

“Around the time that Libya fell, al-Qaeda operatives sent the first 600 jihadists through Turkey to fight against Syria. For the past four years since that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the US have sent tens of thousands of jihadists and enormous quantities of arms to fuel the terrorists’ brutal uprising,” Republican Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black said in an interview with FNA.

He further described Saudi Arabia as the main backer of terrorism across the globe, and said, “Allied efforts have promoted global terrorism. Today, terrorists are being trained at camps in Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.

Every terrorist recruited, trained and armed by those powers has become a threat to world order. Thousands of highly-skilled terrorists will return, determined to overthrow the nations from whence they came.

Today, even Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest financier of global terrorism, has grown more fearful about returning terrorists. All nations that sponsor terrorism in Syria will suffer the consequences of that foolhardy scheme.”

“The ISIL was created by nations that now claim to oppose it. The ISIL follows Saudi Arabia’s radical theology of Wahhabism. Their remarkable barbarism and brutality stem from this teaching. ISIL was originally financed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Turkey.

Much of this funding is driven by religious hatred toward Christians, Alawites, Shiites and other faiths. ISIL is sworn to murder all who deny Wahhabism, and they train even children to butcher helpless victims,” Black said.

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