Friday’s terror attack in Britain, which left at least 29 people injured in a London underground train, has once again triggered a public debate about fighting terrorism and the root cause of extremist ideology. To discuss the issue, Press TV has interviewed Catherine Shakdam, director of Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies from Tehran, and Richard Millett, a journalist and political commentator, from London.

Catherine Shakdam said the Western powers especially Britain are aware of the fact that Saudi Arabia is promoting Wahhabism, which is spreading extremism and terrorism, but the Western authorities neglect the controversial issue and even continue to sell arms to the Arab country.

“There is a very direct link in between the way that foreign policies are being formulated in Western capitals – in London in particular – towards Saudi Arabia for example ... and terrorism itself,” the analyst said on Friday night.

Until the West addresses the “ideology” behind promoting terrorism, which is “Wahhabism,” the world will continue to suffer from terrorist attacks time and again, she noted.

Shakdam said that she did not think “counter-terrorism is actually countering anything at this point, because we (the West) continue to empower the very radicals to come back to our streets in London, in Paris and in other capitals across the world including the Middle East.”

Referring to the Saudis’ policy, she argued, “Saudi Arabia has empowered radicals to continue to terrorize populations just because they think that they are the most righteous and that they have the right to terrorize and bully people into submission.”

“The only country today that is promoting terrorism is actually Saudi Arabia,” the commentator stipulated.

In July, the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank, reported that Saudi Arabia is the main sponsor of extremism in the UK, urging a probe into sources of money being injected mainly by the Riyadh regime into the institutions promoting radicalism in the European state.

http://presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/16/535320/UK-London-Train-Saudi-Arabia-Terroris...

____ wrote on Sep 16^th, 2017 at 8:55pm:



So don't worry about other disaffected people promoting terrorism, just Saudi Arabia?

Saudi funding of Indonesian education fuels concerns

The specter of radicalism hangs over the spreading of the Wahhabist message into the world's biggest Muslim nation.

https://international.la-croix.com/news/saudi-funding-of-indonesian-education-fu...

____ wrote on Sep 16^th, 2017 at 9:16pm:



I see it is now Turnbull and Shorten. Maybe you should try staying on message.

____ wrote on Sep 16^th, 2017 at 9:32pm:



I attack conservative Muslims and up
In have no problem with atheist Muslims.

BTW, PFP, this is something we agree on.

I've posted here many times I want Australia to have an energy revolution and use everything at our disposal,  renewables, gas, local oil, nukes to be energy independent and buy both from KSA.

The whole world should do this and bring KSA to its knees. I'd even be ib favour of nuking Mecca.

____ wrote on Sep 16^th, 2017 at 9:46pm:


Did I say murder? Nope.   
BTW I know for a fact Mossad closely monitors people like Rhiannon. She's a jew hater.

Which party is in government. Who the PM of that illegitimate mob.

And who died and made you headline police.


If you don't want to discuss the topic, and yet again pick holes on some obscure point, you are dead to me.