Thread by @YasMohammedxx

This is worth watching. Though I have a major criticism. There’s no such thing as Saudi Islam. It’s true that Mosques and schools funded by Saudi are more fundamentalist, but that’s because the books and scholars from SA are more direct and literal Islam.
dailymotion.com/video/x5m0n45

I’m definitely no fan of Saudi, but this documentary was totally unfair. They’re painting Saudis as these villains trying to spread some ideology w nefarious intent. No. They are simply funding the spread of Islam. Everything they were teaching is clearly taken from the religion.

As I outline in my book, our Mosque and Islamic school was run by an Imam from India. Things changed significantly when we got funding from Saudi. The Indian Imam was replaced w an Egyptian Imam w a wife in niqab. But it was not ‘Saudi’ ideology. It was just a more literal Islam.

Our Imam before was a very sweet man, but he didn’t know his religion. I preferred him as Imam of course, I think we all did. But there’s no doubt that he was not educated in Islam. He avoided reciting in Arabic. He taught general life lessons- nothing from Quran or Hadith.

It’s hard to explain it all in tweets but essentially, this doc makes Saudi out to be a bad guy here when all they did was offer up the religion. Don’t be mad at Saudi scholars for saying it, they’re just repeating the literal words of Allah.