Our allies in the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia have released at least 1,500 Islamic terrorists from prison—because they promised not to attack Saudi Arabia.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, waging a crackdown on Islamist militants that has lasted for more than four years, has released some 1,500 jailed suspects after they “repented,” a newspaper said on Sunday. The 1,500 were among about 3,200 militants with whom representatives of a government-appointed “advice committee” met around 5,000 times since it was formed three years ago, Al-Watan said, quoting committee member Mohammad al-Nujaimi.

The paper did not clarify if the remaining 1,700 detainees had refused to renounce the ideology of “taqfir” - branding other Muslims as apostates or infidels in order to legitimize violence against them.

The ideology is espoused by some militants who advocate the use of force to overthrow regimes deemed corrupt or unrepresentative and to establish a single Islamic state.

Nujaimi said the 1,500 militants who changed their views had renounced Saudi-born Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s call on his followers to “cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of polytheists.”