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Saudi Arabia has asked its Wahhabi clergy to stop encouraging Saudi youths to fight alongside Takfiri ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq lest the militants may come back to their home country to carry out terror acts, a commentator tells Press TV.

“This is a regime that now has problems with its own clergy – the Wahhabi clergy who had been encouraging young Saudis to go and fight in Syria – and, all of a sudden, the regime has turned the tables and has asked these clerics to reverse their direction and encourage Saudis not to fight in Syria,” Dr. Naseer al-Omari, an author and political commentator, said in an interview with Press TV from New York on Wednesday.

“The fear is that these young men who have already joined the Jihadists and terrorists in Syria in their thousands… the fear is that they’re going to come back and fight the Saudi regime,” he added.

The remarks come as a former commander of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria, Abu Leith al-Tabouki, said that some Saudi clerics play a major role in providing financial resources to the militants.

Al-Omari further stated that the Saudi kingdom is beginning to collapse as it experiences divisions within the royal family, clashes with its own people, and engages in this new conflict with its Wahhabi clergy.

“Internally, the Saudi kingdom is in complete turmoil.”

The Takfiri ISIL terrorists, who currently control parts of Syria and Iraq, have committed widespread acts of violence, including mass executions, abductions, torture and forcing women into slavery in the areas they have seized in the two countries.