Saudi Arabia has made leaps in recent months to catch up with the modern world – and now, the kingdom’s representatives are pushing away their conservative roots in a dramatic fashion.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced yesterday that he would be taking a direct stance against the kingdom’s puritanical religious clerics and pushing for a more “moderate Islam”.
“We want to live a normal life. A life in which our religion translates to tolerance, to our traditions of kindness,” said the prince at an economic forum in Riyadh.
“Seventy percent of the Saudi population is under 30, and honestly we will not spend the next 30 years of our lives dealing with destructive ideas. We will destroy them today and at once,” he added.
The 32-year-old Crown Prince, who is next in line to be Saudi Arabia‘s king, is one of the first major political figures to directly denounce the country’s regressive religious nature. In an interview with the Guardian, the prince explained…
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