You mistake sunni Islam with a new terrorist ideology called wahabissm, these people are not sunnis but extremists, they declared the Ottomans as non muslims and declared 90% of world sunnis as non muslims but yes the petrodollar, building of 10,000s of mosques, 100,000s of madrassas, billions on propaganda increased their voice in the sunni world, they use the media to control the masses, plus have 2 countries spending billions annually on them, this made them powerful force. The majority of sunni world is in chaos unfortunately.