If you want to see what kind of scholars Aal Sa'ud wants, look at Abdul-Muhsin al-'Ubaykaan, or 'Mufti al-Amrikan,' as I have heard he is referred to. When the government wanted to expand the area between Safa and Marwa to alleviate crowding, they sent a question to the Lajnah ad-Da'ima to see if this would be okay. The Lajnah ad-Da'ima replied unanimously, no, it is not okay, and if you do this then you will be making the hajj of a lot of people baatil. So the government went to some Egyptian Muftis, got the fatwa, and one of the shuyookh on the Lajnah wrote an article criticizing the government, saying 'If you wanted to set us up for these issues, why are you doing this now? We told you you can build levels, and that's fine, but you can't do this or you'll destroy a lot of peoples' Hajj.' In waltzes Abdul-Muhsin al-'Ubaykaan: "Why are you contradicting Wali ul-amr," et cetera, writes a whole article attacking the shuyookh for causing fitnah by criticizing the decision...