The Mecca Uprising: An Insider's Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia by Nasir al-Huzaimi

Author:Nasir al-Huzaimi [al-Huzaimi, Nasir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Religious Intolerance; Persecution & Conflict, Personal Memoirs, Social Science, Middle Eastern, Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, World, Islamic Studies, Terrorism
ISBN: 9780755602155
Google: MAcGEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 51541432
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-12-10T11:09:26+00:00

Publishing Juhaiman’s Writings

One day I ran into Abd al-Latif al-Dirbas, an Ikhwan I knew quite well. He had Kuwaiti citizenship and had burned his identity papers some time ago and settled in Medina. Then he moved to a tent in the desert, and even though he was originally a townsman, he praised Bedouin life in an affected and crude way. That is the nature of converts, be it religious or social, such that you see them desperately trying to prove they are worthy of their new position. Abd al-Aziz al-Sadhan mentioned to me that one time he was at the Ikhwan’s tent in Kuwait with Abd al-Latif al-Dirbas, and he, Abd al-Aziz, put out breakfast. One of the men in the tent acted like the food was disgusting. Al-Dirbas then stood up as a rebuke against that person and threw dirt on the food. He said, “Eat it.” Abd al-Aziz al-Sadhan replied that that was contrary to Sunnah. Dirbas said, “What is your evidence?” So Sadhan recited the Prophet’s words to a man who was eating dates and when he dropped one, the Prophet told him, “Remove its dirt and eat it.” Al-Dirbas said, “You want to confuse me about my religion.”

Anyway, Sadhan told me that Juhaiman had composed an essay called Removing Confusion about the Religion of Abraham160 and that it would be printed in Kuwait. He said that Abd al-Latif took it first to the Dar al-Qabas publishing house, but it asked for a large payment to print it, so then he took it to the leftist Dar al-Tali’ah publishing house. When al-Dirbas told them about the difficulties of writing it and that the author was wanted by Saudi security forces, the publisher became enthusiastic and printed it for a small price, less than one riyal per copy, while Dar al-Qabas had asked for three riyals per copy. So the essay was printed. Dar al-Tali’ah was asked to leave out the name of the publisher and the place of publication, and it did so. The same publisher that printed this essay printed some others as well.161

There were, however, some serious printing errors. For instance, in some print runs, the back cover had the name of the publisher Dar al-Tali’ah and the place of publication in Kuwait. The Ikhwan used razors to cut out the publisher’s name from every copy. They did not want the publisher and the place of publication to appear because they wanted to avoid detection of the route they were using between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia via Hafr al-Batin to smuggle the essays into the kingdom. Ikhwan who did not have passports or identity papers used the same route for clandestine travel to and from Kuwait. Almost all Ikhwan destroyed their identity papers due to their fanatical attitude against images and their position on existing regimes. In their view, establishing national borders and shackling them with passports are signs of tyranny that are not ordained by God. It is better for Muslims to disobey and oppose such tyranny.

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