jpk, the reason the problems in Saudi Arabia are as bad as they are is because the US is propping up a totalitarian regime in that country. In that particular case, the totalitarian regime that the US is propping up is Muslim. But there are plenty of non-Muslim totalitarian regimes that the US is also propping up. To the detriment of the people of those countries, I might add.

The reason the US props up totalitarian regimes all over the world is so that it can control the natural resources of those countries, or at the very least, have exclusive access to those resources. And also for the purpose of putting military bases in those countries, again, in order to achieve and to maintain world domination.

In Iran, for instance, there was a fledgling democracy there for a short while prior to the reign of the Shah's totalitarian regime. This fledgeling democracy was crushed by the US through a CIA backed coup, and the Shah and his totalitarian regime were installed in the place of the democratically elected government. This was for the purpose of controling that country's oil. The Islamic revolution in that country that brough the Ayatollahs to power was a direct result of the oppression of the Shah's brutal regime, in his capacity as client and puppet of the United States.

The people of Saudi Arabia are not at all happy with their government. The fact that the US is propping up that government (and also keeping military bases in that country) against the wishes of the majority of people there is a very big part of the reason the people in that country are very angry with the US.