The Brussels bombings, like the Paris terror attacks earlier, are a reminder that jihadist-minded citizens of European Union states can turn into suicide killers by imbibing the insidious ideology of Wahhabism. Blaming the Islamic State group solely for the new terror in Europe risks condoning the role of the ideological mother of Islamist terrorist organizations — Wahhabism, whose international spread has been bankrolled especially by Saudi Arabia.
If Saudi Arabia is to be stopped from continuing to export radical Islamic extremism, the United States and Europe will have to make necessary adjustments in their policies. By wielding only carrots and no stick, the West allows the double-talking Saudi royals to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds — at grave cost to the security of many countries.
Jihadism and sectarianism are institutionalized in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world named after its founder, commonly known as Ibn Saud.