The Saudi Revolution (2789-2799)

This idea came when I was reading a post of Samsoun about the situation of woman in the Saudi Arabia. (Here) This was the main idea of the blog, but it will be more general!

The Big Revolution (2789-2799)

The immediate trigger for the Revolution was Abdullah XXXVI's attempts to solve the government’s worsening Religious situation. In February 2787, his interior minister, Prince Neffa Ben Abdullah Al-Saud, convened an Assembly of Sheikhs, a group of Imams, Mufties and Businessmen selected in order to solve the need of employee in the kingdom. Nawfel asked this group to approve a new law that would, for the first time, include a possible part time job for the totally veiled women. The assembly did not approve the law, instead demanding that Abdullah XXXVI call the Djihad-AlAkbar. On August 8, 2788, the King agreed to convene the random execution of some women so that the activists of them would be afraid.

Almost immediately the "Committee of Secularity", a body of liberal Saudi, began to agitate against voting by order, arguing for an equality of genders and voting democratically (as had already been done in various regional elections, such as in the beginning of the millennium). Nawfel agreed that the number of workers should be doubled, but the question of voting democratically was left for the meeting of the Sheikhs themselves. Fueled by these disputes, resentment between the Wahabist and the liberals began to grow.

By this time, Nawfel had earned the enmity of many members of the Saudi Sheikhs for his support and guidance to the Open Economy. The king, Abdullah XXXVI, his younger son, the Prince Abulkoraz Yasser Abdullah, and other conservative members of the king's private council urged to dismiss Nawfel, wich was fired on July 11th.

Many Saudi presumed the actions to be the start of a royal coup by the conservatives and began open rebellion when they heard the news the next day. They were also afraid that arriving Royal soldiers had been summoned to shut down the National Religious Assembly, which was meeting at Mekka, and the Assembly went into nonstop session to prevent eviction from their meeting place once again. Riadh was soon consumed with riots, anarchy, and widespread looting of the great luxurious Malls. The mobs soon had the support of the Saudi Guards, including arms and trained soldiers, because the royal leadership essentially abandoned the city.

In 2789, the insurgents set their eyes on the large weapons and ammunition cache inside the US military base of Khobar, near the town of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia, which also served as a symbol of tyranny by the monarchy and their traditional allies. After several hours of combat, the base fell that afternoon. Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, many regional government officers were beaten, stabbed and leaved the country.

The King and his military supporters stayed hidden, at least for the time being. Someone took up command of the National Guard at Riadh. Another, became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the Barrakkeka.

Nobles began to flee the country as Illegal Immigrants some of whom began plotting civil war within the kingdom and agitating for a Middle East coalition against Saudi Arabia. By late July, insurrection and the spirit of popular sovereignty spread throughout the Peninsula in 2795-2799. In rural areas, many went beyond this: some burned title-deeds and no small number of great Kings' Buildings as part of a general agrarian insurrection known as the great Nouzouh. In addition, plotting at Riadh and the large numbers of men on the roads of SA as a result of unemployment led to wild rumours and paranoia (particularly in the rural areas) that caused widespread unrest and civil disturbances and contributed to the Big Revolution.

Now, people are afraid of each others and managed to vote for a legalization of the sale of fire weapons. This was made in 2808 and taken part in the rise of the economy of the state!! In 2825, the rate of crimes by armed hand reached the 67% of deaths in Arabia with more than 1100 killed by fire arms per year.

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