Saudi Arabia takes lead organizing a Muslim coalition to defeat ISIS

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– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News
Saudi Arabia takes lead organizing a Muslim coalition to defeat ISIS.
The Saudi government announced today that it has pulled together a 34 country coalition of Muslim majority countries to eradicate the scourge of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, more commonly referred to as ISIS by non-Muslim countries.
Apparently, the House of Saud has reached its basta point and now seeks to see the end of the blood thirsty apostate blasphemers of the Word of Allah.
That and perhaps also to show up Western counties that have for too long dithered about what to do with rabid pillagers and worse.
Coalition members include a long list of Arab countries including Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates as well as Islamic countries ranging from Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan.

The Saudis plan to set up the command center for the coalition in the Saudi capital of Riyadh as well as surely put to use what all its military has learned from its largely rolling up of the rebels in Yemen and so secure a promising ceasefire.
Most military analysts view Saudi Arabia as having the best military in the Gulf region as well as more powerful than the Iran’s military and which is conspicuous by its absence in the 34 country coalition.
Then again, the Saudis and the Iranians have long been at loggerheads to be the leader of the Muslim faith.
Militarily, however, there is no question that the Iranian military offers no serious challenge to the Saudi juggernaut.
Iran’s military hardware is mostly obsolete and its soldiers mostly middling, if not arguable cannon fodder.

The Saudis, on the the other hand, have one of the most modern and well-trained militaries in the world.
Decades of stupendous oil wealth and close relationships with Western powers have resulted in the Saudis having modern as well as often low mileage weapons of war, first class and well-hardened military facilities scattered about its vast countryside and a well-trained military enhanced by expert support from Western allies.
Plus, as the home of Medina and Mecca, two of the most sacred venues to Muslims, it would appear that the Saudis are now perhaps following the lead of Saudi Aramco’s purportedly exemplary corporate social responsibility within what is admittedly an ancient and not exactly progressive country but which is trying to move towards some semblance of modernity.
While maybe not liberalizing fast enough for at least some outsiders, at least the Saudis are not regularly beheading foreign journalists or innocent aid worker hostages as has the Islamic State.
As such, expect no quarter to be asked as well as none to be offered.
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