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American policymakers are worried that the Saudi government, the country’s charities and wealthy Saudi individuals continue to promote a fundamentalist version of Islam around the world. The author of this note, however, contends that this assessment tends to rely on findings and assumptions that are imprecise and out of date, and that local actors within the kingdom are struggling to fight the extremism festering in their own society. In the last case, he assesses how the struggle is going and how it might impact American policy.