Juan Cole
Juancole.com - May. 30, 2015
Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) took responsibility for a terrorist attack Friday on the Shiite al-Husayn Mosque in Dammam, which left three victims dead.
Saudi security forces are taking credit for spotting that the car the
terrorists were driving was suspicious and preventing it from getting
too near the mosque. But Shiites are saying that two youth from the
mosque blocked the attackers and were blown up themselves.
Relations were already bad between the ruling hyper-Sunni Wahhabis and the Shiite minority before the bombings this month.
Saudi Arabia produces 10.3 million barrels
a day of petroleum. The whole world only produces 93 million barrels a
day, so Saudi Arabia is doing like 11 percent of world production.
When
you say Saudi Arabia has petroleum, you are really talking about the
Eastern Province along the Gulf littoral. There’s something
demographically distinctive about that area. It has traditionally had a
big Shiite population. Most of the kingdom’s 2.4 million or so Shiites
(out of a citizen population of a little over 20 million) live in the
Eastern Province where the oil is. Significant numbers of the workers
on the oil rigs are Shiite.
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