Bro I am 1000% serious if a Muslim country today made an fully indigenous mobile phone or laptop with its own OS I would buy it and get everyone I know to buy it.
We need to start thinking big... We rely too much on third party products with backdoor for espionage and vulnerabilities.
I mean if Iran can make advanced ballistic missiles - a mobile phone is child's play - start with simple symbian models and upscale - i would buy an Iranian mobile phone right now.
KSA just made a fully indigenous laptop computer.
KSA/GCC (mostly KSA and UAE) are leading in the Muslim world in several scientific fields, most notably AI. KSA also has the best scientific ranks (most scientific papers per capita, highest scientific growth, most public investments going into STEM) in the Muslim world compared to per capital (population size) and the best ranked universities in the Muslim world.
Oil fuels Saudi Arabia’s rise as a regional science powerhouse.
www.natureasia.com
This was 10 years ago, you can imagine the situation today.
That is why the GCC is also the wealthiest, most stable and most prosperous region of the Muslim world but many so-called Muslims want Arabia to resemble their own failed/war-torn nations out of spite, inferiority complexes and in certain cases outright hatred.
Even though no country (KSA) or people (Saudi Arabian mujahideen participated in the 1000's (more than any other Muslim people per capita) in every single conflict where Muslims were harmed in support of Muslim cases has helped Muslim communities (in the West and in the Muslim world) financially, religiously or militarily or through personal sacrifice more.
Even though I am totally against Hezbollah (the leadership that is which are Iranian implants advancing an alien Iranian regime agenda in the Arab world and in this case Southern Lebanon), even Saudi Arabian Shias have fallen in the ranks of Hezbollah against Israel.
Saudi national Omran Karim was killed in an Israeli attack on Lebanon while reportedly fighting with Hezbollah.
www.newarab.com
This is not about who is better or has done more, those are just pure verifiable facts on the ground, yet for some twisted/strange reason, KSA/Saudi Arabians are constantly attacked by supposed "Muslims" even though 99.9% of ordinary Saudi Arabians support Palestine and Palestinians 100% as very survey can confirm, even those posted by Israeli/Western media.
Yet a strange segment of Muslims want to create an alternative reality and somehow blame this entire conflict and whatever happens in the Muslim world on KSA constantly. It is unhinged behavior and quite frankly psychotic.
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As for this thread, I am not sure why people are talking about KSA. KSA has nothing to do with either Israeli, US or Hamas policies. KSA is the country that has financially supported Palestine and Palestinians that most and is also the country in the region that host the largest Palestinian community that is also (since forever) getting preferential treatment over other expat/foreign communities. KSA caused the most economic/political harm against the US/West during the conflict in the 1970's as well (oil embargo). To this day KSA has not recognized nor had any economic or military ties with Israel (as one of the few Muslim nations that never had any such ties with Israel from the very beginning until 2025), even though KSA could gain the most from such a relationship economically, politically and militarily.
Also there is no "axis of resistance". The so-called "axis of resistance" (Iranian terrorist proxies) is only about keeping Iranian regime interests in the region intact but that failed, bloody, sectarian etc. project has spectacularly failed after the liberation of Syria, setbacks in Iraq and failed control of 80% of Yemen.
Iran did not fire a single missile at Israel UNTIL Israel attacked them repeatedly. Same with Hezbollah. They are not in it for Hamas/Gaza/Palestine despite 40 + years of propaganda and using this as an excuse to mass-murder Syrians for 10 + years.
On the other hand, KSA/Arab states have not had such a false and pathetic rhetoric ever but we have always been very clear. Two-state solution with pre-1967 borders.
Hence the Arab Peace Initiate (Saudi Arabian made) that both Hamas, Fatah, all main Palestinian factions and ALL Arab states support. In fact I would guess all main Muslim nations.
en.wikipedia.org
Nobody from this front (regimes) has made any unrealistic or bombastic claims. Since Israel is a reality in the region and not going away (most importantly it is mostly an ethnically Arab Jewish state anyway - 20% Palestinian/Bedouin Arab + majority of Israeli Jews are Arab Jews or partial Arab Jews), peace (if a two-state solution is established and some form of peace can prevail) it is better/preferable for the people of the region and region as a whole to have at least peaceful ties and preferably mutually beneficial ties.
Now whether or not October 7th was a good idea or not, is not for me to decide, this is a question that Gazans (actual citizens) have to answer if it was worth it. Personally I consider it a human/Islamic/Arab right to fight against your oppressors and I will leave it at that.
As for the whole idea of KSA being anti-Muslim Brotherhood, it simply boils down to this simple fact. When the Muslim Brotherhood (an Egyptian POLITICAL movement originally now with some branches elsewhere in the Arab world - it is not a religious sect or anything special for Muslims or Islam - it is 1 out of 100's of Islamic movements in the region historically) was persecuted severely in Egypt during the time of Nasser, also in Syria among the Al-Assad regime, KSA was the Arab country that gave them refugee and employed many of the educated MB members in the education system and elsewhere in KSA. In fact for a long time, KSA supported the MB as a counterweight to Nasser and Arab Baa'thism because those ideologies wanted the removal of monarchies in the region even though most people were/are content and doing/living way better off than those who want political changes within our lands. Which is an irony but that is for another topic altogether.
The problem simply bails down to the fact that some MB branches have openly called for the toppling of monarchies in the Arab world (the most stable governments in the Arab world) and this despite the historical support that the Arab monarchies have been given the MB. The hostility was a one-way street and quite a surprise. Now there is mutual mistrust which is not necessary at all.
If the MB wants to be taken seriously they should first regain power organically in Egypt or other Arab States and seek partnerships not to act like ISIS or other groups (no comparison otherwise) that seek the abolishment of existing regimes through violence and force. This is not the way forward.
Any way I have personally nothing against the MB (by default I am not against political parties that want to emphasize the Arab Islamic identity of our nation) or any other similar group. I believe that in a perfect world, they would/could share power in the Arab world along with other main political groups. All working for the benefit of our people and nation. In the future that might very well be the case and when people/countries get more mature politically and more political freedom is granted or taken.
Besides if there will ever be regime changes in KSA/Arabia/Arab world (which there will be eventually) or political changes, they will come naturally through the people and society, not through outside interference/bad faith actors.
Just like it is wrong to impose systems/groups upon Gazans and Palestinians from the outside. I am totally against that anywhere in the Arab world.
Now I don't know what to say or believe about this "deal" or what is going on behind the scenes, the only thing that I care about is the well-being of ordinary Gazans as a whole and our Palestinian brothers and sisters and that they will soon have their own independent Palestinian state in one form or another. That has always been the position of not only all KSA governments but also practically every single Saudi Arabian.
As for Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath those are run by private Saudi Arabian individuals (Al-Ibrahim) and 1 Saudi Arabian prince (not in power or governance) and many Saudi Arabians do not like much of their coverage (can easily be seen on Twitter or Arab social media) but not everything they do is bad. They are not official state Saudi Arabian media which has a very different coverage. In any case I believe (personally) that there should be every type of media and angles on conflicts (from the most conservative to the liberal to other) as this fosters discourse, as long as there is no incitement or hate speech. In any case I personally don't watch traditional media any longer but just follow journalist (Arab and non-Arab) which are in the field. All those state-owned media have their own agendas (political) like anywhere else. Citizen media is preferred for this reason.
Anyway we will not (ordinary Saudi Arabians and Palestinians and Arabs as a whole) accept provocateurs and agents of foreigners to create artificial hatred/hostility/rivalries between us (ordinary people) or to drive an imaginary wedge between us.
@Falcon29 @Unknowntruth
@RescueRanger Brother thank you for the PM. You are more than welcome to create such a thread but not sure if it deserves an entire thread. We have two KSA-related threads that deal with developments within KSA. 1 on this section (1 of the sticky threads) and the other on the Arab section but purely military-related.