Continuation of the answer to: What is your opinion regarding the position of the Saudi state toward the Iraqi aggression against Kuwait?

The Shaykh : And I personally believe, very much to my regret, that the Saudi state did not have the option to seek the assistance of the American state or other states. Because we used to say in some of our answers to such questions that the Saudi state could have sought the assistance of some Islamic states. And that was a correct and very regrettable answer. Do you think, O Shaykh, that if the Saudi state had sought the assistance of these Islamic states now, which are with them and in the army of disbelief, they would have responded to the call of Saudi Arabia if it had sought the aid of Islamic armies? They say, and their saying is the truth, that these states would not respond if the Saudi state called them. Why? Because they all move in the orbit of American rule. So, America imposed upon the Saudi state that it be occupied under the cover that the Saudi state is free and that it is seeking the lesser evil to repel the greater evil. Whichever of the two was the reality, whether it was what is rumored about the Saudi state—and this is supported by the fact that some distinguished sheikhs have affirmed this rumor—that it was at the request of the Saudi state, or the other, as we suspect, that it was imposed upon them, that we must come to you to defend you or to repel the evil of the Iraqi invasion, just as it invaded Kuwait, and they submitted to this request. That is something we do not consider unlikely at all. That is something we do not consider unlikely at all. Because we have not seen a position of any of the states existing today that is honorable, affirming its Muslim identity before the will of the disbelieving state, especially if it is the great power, as they say today. So, I think you have received the answer. In brief, it was obligatory for the Saudi people to mobilize entirely, and then to seek the assistance of the Islamic states. If any of them responded, that is good and excellent. Otherwise, Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs. And if the Islamic lands, or some of the Islamic lands, are occupied, it is better to defend them with dignity than to hand them over as a mouthful of food to the disbelieving states, which have proven their enmity toward Islam and Muslims throughout this past century, and which enabled the Jews to occupy Palestine.