Is Wahhabi Islam Linked to Tobacco Control?

Is there an association between Saudi Wahhabi Islam and Tobacco Control? I know that the Islamic State is strongly antismoking (and been applauded for it by Western antismoking organisations). What about Saudi Wahhabism?

According to Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhab’s system, attendance at public prayer is obligatory, smoking of tobacco is forbidden and subject to punishment, shaving the beard and the use of abusive language are also to be punished.

It appears that the Islamic State’s version of Islam is more or less identical to Saudi Wahhabism. Saudi Arabia may even be funding the Islamic State:

Saudi Arabia is the world’s leading sponsor of Islamic extremism. It is also a close U.S. ally. This contradiction, although responsible for a lot of human suffering, is frequently ignored.

There are currently estimated to be at least 400 Islamic State jihadis on the loose in Western Europe, who have been responsible firstly for the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and then the Bataclan massacre, and now most recently the Brussels bombings. Given that each attack employs about 4 jihadis, we can expect many more attacks from what amounts to a covert (Wahhabi) Islamic army operating inside Europe.

What does this army wish to achieve? Its choice of targets may provide some suggestions. The Charlie Hebdo attack was on the board of directors of a satirical French magazine, and was an attack on Western non-mainstream media. The Bataclan and associated attacks was on Western popular culture (a rock concert), and on people eating and drinking and smoking in and outside several Paris bistros: it was an attack on Western culture. To this might be added the wave of sexual assaults on European women, which is also a cultural attack.

The latest attack in Brussels  might be construed to be an attack on the EU and NATO, both of whom are based there. Or a response to the capture of a jihadi leader. But the timing of the Brussels attack might also be significant. It took place on the same day – 22 March 2016 – that the the UK’s ITV broadcast Exposure: Saudi Arabia Uncovered , a secretly-shot documentary from inside Saudi Arabia. It was reviewed in the Express on the previous day, 21 March:

Sick public beheadings & female beatings which aren’t ISIS – but UK’s FRIENDS Saudi Arabia

BRITAIN’S special relationship with Saudi Arabia has been brought into question ahead of a sickening documentary exposing the brutal and oppressive life under the totalitarian nation.

By ROB VIRTUE
PUBLISHED: 10:08, Mon, Mar 21, 2016 | UPDATED: 19:53, Mon, Mar 21, 2016

Furthermore, it is being said that Saudi Arabia may be responsible for the Brussels attack:

SAUDI FINGERPRINTS ALL OVER BRUSSELS

It could of course have been entirely fortuitous that the bombings took place on the same day as the documentary was broadcast. But might the Brussels bombings have served as a warning to ITV and a diversion from the subsequent broadcast?

But with mounting concern about the Islamisation of Europe (here, here, and here), and a covert Islamic army now conducting what appears to be a violent cultural war in Europe, might it be that the War on Tobacco (and also the growing war on alcohol, and on Western culture in general) is actually part and parcel of an Islamisation process?

There is, at very least, an odd coincidence between the aims of Wahhabi Islam and those of western Public Health. Might they working in league with each other?

After all, isn’t it likely that two organisations that share the same goals, albeit for different reasons (if ‘reason’ has anything to do with), should at very least consult each other occasionally? Does Saudi Arabia fund the…

…WHO?