Isis is, of course, a physical threat to Saudi Arabia, where online polling suggests it hasalarmingly high support. But the main fear of Saudi rulers is of being outflanked on the religiousright by the jihadi extremists. The competition, therefore, is between Wahhabi absolutists andthe Sunni supremacists of Isis as to which of them is a more credible scourge of the Shia —branded in both ideologies as polytheist heretics and rafidah (“rejectionist).

当然，ISIS对沙特阿拉伯造成了切实威胁，该国在线民调显示，ISIS的支持率高得惊人。但沙特统治者主要担忧的是，在宗教权利方面，他们会被作为圣战极端分子的ISIS所超过。因此，竞争是在瓦哈比专制派别和ISIS的逊尼至上主义派别之间展开的，以决定他们哪个更有可能给什叶派造成麻烦——两种教义均将什叶派贴上多神主义异教徒和拒绝派(rafidah)的标签。

The speeches of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared Isis caliph, are often marinated inpieces of Islamic lore ripped from their context and always threatening. But they repayexamination. In mid-May, he labelled the Yemen operation, which the Saudis called Storm ofResolve, “the kick of a dying person.

ISIS自封的哈里发阿布贝克尔巴格达迪(Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi)在演讲中往往夹杂着断章取义的伊斯兰教义，始终在危言恫吓。但这些演讲值得研究。今年5月中旬，巴格达迪将空袭也门行动称为“垂死之人的挣扎——沙特称为“决心风暴。

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