Saudi Arabia: a story of pure darkness

[Anomalocaris]

No,  local thugs, leveraging your local religion,  made you so easily invaded.

Historically, Muslims took down Spain and Constantinople when they were more religious.
Defeat and disasters came during during the illumination period in Europe, when many Muslims wanted to replace the religious model with a European one.

You might as well argue that just because stone axes carried you to victory when everyone you faced also only had stone axes, so in the age when everyone else had machine guns and aeroplanes the key to your freedom from conquest and further victory remains more stone axes.

Religion is an effective force when everyone are equally ignorant about reality and mere brutish unquestioning fanaticism religion promotes confers an formidable advantage.  Religion is becames an inveterate source of uncompensarable ignorance and therefore fatal weakness when the other side possesses knowledge about reality sufficient to translate into hard power capable of overwhelming any mere fanaticism.

Islam use to be a source of strength when everyone else were just as ignorant.   Now Islam is but a source of ignorance when everyone else are so knowledgeable as to be able to flick off any faith and Ferber Islam can promote in a struggle.

But such is the rot promoted by Islam in the minds of muslims like you for the sake of the now useless institution of islam, that muslims are blinded to the fact that it is Islam that made them slaves to other wiser man while they imagine themselves to be some favored slaves to  some nonexistent god that would protect them, and are seeking to make themselves more inescapably slaves to the west by being more ferverishly Muslim in their own outlook.

Escaping from Islam will be painful. For a while when devoid the of pain numbing and Appearently purpose giving influence of Islam things will look worse. But with Islam things will never get better. Without islam, after things get worse, you now have the power to make things better through clearer vision and more enlightenely directed efforts.