MORE LEGITIMACY: WE WERE AND STILL ARE GOOD MUSLIMS. THAT'S WHY THEY'VE WAGED A CAMPAIGN AGAINST US IN THE WEST

Though Palestine and Arab solidarity loomed largest in the newly-energized Saudi policy to absorb domestic dissatisfaction, the Saudi rulers still felt the need to remind their public that they were as ever devout Muslims. This obviously was a response to the Saudi opposition which literature, found on the internet, accuses the royal family of having deserted Islamic teachings. (SPC has been reviewing the opposition literature; for now, SPC hasn't found it useful to synopsize it.)

King Fahd thus assured Saudis in early November 2001 that the country will "remain fond of the Book of God and the Sunna of [His] Prophet, in word and work, law and principle, and way of life, until such time as God inherits the earth and its inhabitants." Crown Prince Abdallah did as much in late November, in a meeting with the Kingdom's leadership: You know, he told his audience, that the campaigns against the Kingdom is caused by our reference to Muhammadean Shariah.