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This paper contends that young Muslims in Southeast Asia are becoming increasingly radicalized because Saudi Arabia continues to promote Wahhabism in the region. The text’s author further argues that the US has willingly shielded this effort and that if it is serious about counterterrorism, it should work to break the Saudi-Wahhabi nexus, primarily by dismantling the religious-industrial complex of Saudi-funded mosques and madrassas that serve as "jihad factories" in Africa, Europe and now Asia.