Somehow "advising" hasn't managed to succeed in the Saudi kingdom. For a country that bans political parties because they are divisive, how is it possible to ignore the fact that a ruling council is making a statement that sounds an awful lot like what a political council would say? They hardly sound receptive to any advice from others outside of their group. Al Jazeera:
The warning from Saudi's council of senior scholars on Sunday follows a similar announcement by secular authorities a day earlier.
The 10-member council's statement, carried by state news agency SPA, said that "the correct way in sharia [Islamic law] of realising common interest is by advising, which is what the Prophet Muhammad established".
"Reform and advice should not be via demonstrations and ways that provoke strife and division, this is what the religious scholars of this country in the past and now have forbidden and warned against," the statement said.
"The council warns of deviant ideological and party-political connections since this nation is one and will adhere to the ways of the pious ancestors.
"The kingdom has not and will not allow ideas from the West or the East that take away from this Islamic identity and divide the unity of the whole."
