‘You have to kiss a lot of frogs until you find your handsome prince,’ the saying goes, but in the case of Saudi Arabia, it is the reverse. We have been kissing lots of Saudi princes for more than 70 years and what we ended up with is an ugly toad, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The promising reformer, known to the world as MBS, the rising star, the darling of the west, the one who was going to modernize Saudi Arabia and Islam, the cute young prince who let Saudi women drive and brought Mickey Mouse movies to a Saudi theater near you; is now accused of committing the savage killing of Saudi citizen and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
