Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

thumb|Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (1934, Taif – 16 June 2012) was the interior minister of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 2012. Quotes There were "evil people", who "wanted to make the kingdom a place for chaos and marches that are void of noble goals". At a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in March 2011 The Saudis are brought [to Iraq] in order to carry out bombings. Either they strap on explosives belts and blow up in public places, or else they drive a car, crash into some place, and blow it up. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abd Al-Aziz to Saudi Preachers: Saudis Who Go to Iraq Are Used for Suicide Bombings, video clip, June 2007 Quotes about The House of Saud had barely survived this double challenge to its legitimacy. To maintain their grip on power, they knew it was time to deliver on the deal they had struck with the clerics during the Juhayman crisis. When the minister of interior Prince Nayef was asked during a press conference in January 1980 whether the kingdom would now clamp down on men who appeared zealous because they sported a beard, for example, he scoffed. “If we did this most Saudis would be in prison by now,” he said. Even before the attack in Mecca, Prince Nayef had been amenable to the blind sheikh’s implorations on trivial matters. Bin Baz had complained about “violations of Islamic morality” in Riyadh, like foreign women eating in public, Christians wearing visible crosses, Western music being played in stores, and the apparently corrupting game of foosball, idolatrous because of the little statuettes. Directives were promptly sent to address Bin Baz’s complaints—but only in Riyadh and the province of Najd. Kim Ghattas Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020) External links http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647239,00.html Vice Squad Time Jul. 26, 2007 2007-08-01 http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/07/saudi_militants.php Saudi militants in Lebanon and Iraq embarrass homeland Ya Libnan 20 July 2007 2007-08-01 Category:Interior ministers Category:Islamic fundamentalists Category:1934 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Muslims Category:Politicians from Saudi Arabia