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<\/a>Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon analyzed the dramatic weekend events in Saudi Arabia on Monday\u2019s edition ofBreitbart News Daily<\/em>\u00a0on the SiriusXM Patriot Channel.<\/h3>\nBannon said a driving force behind the transformation of Saudi Arabia and other major events in the Middle East is the recognition by many regional powers that \u201cPresident Trump and the United States of America have had enough of it and are just not going to tolerate anymore this financing, the exporting of radical Islamic terror into Western Europe and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
He recalled Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi\u2019s giving a landmark speech several years ago about \u201chow Islam had to reform itself internally to Islam, just like Christianity went through a huge reformation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, I think the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation was a couple of weeks ago,\u201d he remarked. \u201cChristianity had gone through things like the Thirty Years War and the Reformation, et cetera, to reform itself. By the way, I\u2019m a Catholic, so I\u2019m not saying everything in the Reformation was great.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\u201cMy point is, these religions go through internal reformations: Gen. Sisi in Egypt, Mohammed bin Zayed in the United Arab Emirates, MBS, the new Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia. These guys have been at the forefront of trying to modernize and reform Islam internally, with Muslims doing their reformation,\u201d said Bannon.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne the things that you\u2019ve seen at the summit President Trump had in the spring is that the United States is not prepared to tolerate any more people in the Middle East financing the exporting of radical Islamic terrorism into Western Europe in the United States. I think you\u2019re seeing some of the leaders over there take active control of this,\u201d he proposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was the whole thing I said at the Hudson Institute, that the Qatar situation is, I believe today \u2013 even with everything going on in the Northwest Pacific \u2013 the most important national security and foreign policy situation the United States has,\u201d Bannon argued. \u201cYou can tell now with what\u2019s happening with the Kurds and what\u2019s happening in Turkey and Lebanon with the prime minister stepping down, thinking he could be assassinated. The Middle East, I\u2019m telling you right now, is on a knife\u2019s edge, in the last 48 or 72 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019ve got to tell you, for all the elites out in the world, the Party of Davos guys are sitting there today gobsmacked, absolutely shocked,\u201d he said. \u201cThe largest financier in the Arab world, the Muslim world, is Prince Alwaleed. He\u2019s got stakes in just about every high-tech company. He\u2019s a huge partner of Rupert Murdoch. When he came to the United States back in the early nineties, he was actually a client of my firm as he got into Hollywood; he got into media. He owns a huge stake in Citicorp, he saved Citicorp from going bankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are stunned today that he was put under house arrest, put under arrest yesterday in Saudi Arabia, in this situation of what they called corruption, money laundering, et cetera. People are thinking this is directly tied to the financing of the Muslim Brotherhood, this whole thing about cleaning up Saudi Arabia to take care of this. You\u2019re going to see a lot of changes. This thing is far, far from over. You\u2019re at the top of the first inning. You\u2019re probably at the first batter,\u201d Bannon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook at what\u2019s happening in Iraq now. Look at what\u2019s happening with this expansionist Persia, Erdogan; John Bolton just said it. Erdogan is going to announce an Ottoman caliphate on the 100th anniversary of Ataturk. I\u2019ve said it from day one: Erdogan is one of the most dangerous guys on the world stage. He believes in his heart that he\u2019s a man of history. Those guys can be dangerous. We\u2019ve got a mess in the Middle East, and President Trump, I think, has done a tremendous job of representing the vital national security interests of the United States over there,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n
Bannon said that at President Trump\u2019s summit meeting with dozens of Arab nations in Saudi Arabia, \u201cmodernization and reformation\u201d were a big part of the agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cMBS, the young Crown Prince, put this thing called Vision 2030 out there, which was to revitalize and change the economy. His point was, the oil is not going to be here forever. We have to do something to get ourselves off of oil. We have to make ourselves more productive. We have to become more engaged in technology, et cetera. Along those lines, he started to do some pretty fundamental things along with women\u2019s rights, women\u2019s empowerment in the modernization over there,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell people, you\u2019re not going to wave a wand or snap your fingers. It\u2019s not going to happen immediately. But you\u2019re seeing, I think, pretty big fundamental changes take place,\u201d he said, noting the enthusiastic support President Trump expressed for those changes in his weekend phone call from Japan to Saudi King Salman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cMy point is, these religions go through internal reformations: Gen. Sisi in Egypt, Mohammed bin Zayed in the United Arab Emirates, MBS, the new Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia. These guys have been at the forefront of trying to modernize and reform Islam internally, with Muslims doing their reformation,\u201d said Bannon.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne the things that you\u2019ve seen at the summit President Trump had in the spring is that the United States is not prepared to tolerate any more people in the Middle East financing the exporting of radical Islamic terrorism into Western Europe in the United States. I think you\u2019re seeing some of the leaders over there take active control of this,\u201d he proposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was the whole thing I said at the Hudson Institute, that the Qatar situation is, I believe today \u2013 even with everything going on in the Northwest Pacific \u2013 the most important national security and foreign policy situation the United States has,\u201d Bannon argued. \u201cYou can tell now with what\u2019s happening with the Kurds and what\u2019s happening in Turkey and Lebanon with the prime minister stepping down, thinking he could be assassinated. The Middle East, I\u2019m telling you right now, is on a knife\u2019s edge, in the last 48 or 72 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019ve got to tell you, for all the elites out in the world, the Party of Davos guys are sitting there today gobsmacked, absolutely shocked,\u201d he said. \u201cThe largest financier in the Arab world, the Muslim world, is Prince Alwaleed. He\u2019s got stakes in just about every high-tech company. He\u2019s a huge partner of Rupert Murdoch. When he came to the United States back in the early nineties, he was actually a client of my firm as he got into Hollywood; he got into media. He owns a huge stake in Citicorp, he saved Citicorp from going bankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are stunned today that he was put under house arrest, put under arrest yesterday in Saudi Arabia, in this situation of what they called corruption, money laundering, et cetera. People are thinking this is directly tied to the financing of the Muslim Brotherhood, this whole thing about cleaning up Saudi Arabia to take care of this. You\u2019re going to see a lot of changes. This thing is far, far from over. You\u2019re at the top of the first inning. You\u2019re probably at the first batter,\u201d Bannon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook at what\u2019s happening in Iraq now. Look at what\u2019s happening with this expansionist Persia, Erdogan; John Bolton just said it. Erdogan is going to announce an Ottoman caliphate on the 100th anniversary of Ataturk. I\u2019ve said it from day one: Erdogan is one of the most dangerous guys on the world stage. He believes in his heart that he\u2019s a man of history. Those guys can be dangerous. We\u2019ve got a mess in the Middle East, and President Trump, I think, has done a tremendous job of representing the vital national security interests of the United States over there,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n
Bannon said that at President Trump\u2019s summit meeting with dozens of Arab nations in Saudi Arabia, \u201cmodernization and reformation\u201d were a big part of the agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cMBS, the young Crown Prince, put this thing called Vision 2030 out there, which was to revitalize and change the economy. His point was, the oil is not going to be here forever. We have to do something to get ourselves off of oil. We have to make ourselves more productive. We have to become more engaged in technology, et cetera. Along those lines, he started to do some pretty fundamental things along with women\u2019s rights, women\u2019s empowerment in the modernization over there,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell people, you\u2019re not going to wave a wand or snap your fingers. It\u2019s not going to happen immediately. But you\u2019re seeing, I think, pretty big fundamental changes take place,\u201d he said, noting the enthusiastic support President Trump expressed for those changes in his weekend phone call from Japan to Saudi King Salman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n