He Said What?
So naive I happen to be. Hearing that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah made a public statement chastising the West for not sufficiently taking steps to combat terrorism made me feel warm and comforted. After all, if the home of Wahhabist Islam - whose spawn bear the likeness of Osama bin Laden, and chief suicide adventurers of 9-11 - so much fear and abhor al-Qaeda and their ilk, there must indeed be hope for overcoming their evil intent.On the other hand, what's this I hear about Saudi oil money funding madrassas here, there and everywhere - including Canada. Fundamentalist schools where the honour of jihad is taught. Where it is taught also that to consort with infidels is forbidden. Where, indeed, in British mosques Saudi-funded extremist literature - pamphlets, books and leaflets teach: "The Jews and the Christians are the enemies of the Muslim", and, "Whoever changes his religion, kill him".
Now King Abdullah has been greeted as a guest of honour by the British Royal family. State banquets have been arranged in his honour. He has been right regally put up, with his entourage of hundreds, at Buckingham Palace. While a British research institution is attempting to persuade Prime Minister Gordon Brown to gently prod this honoured guest over the proliferation of hate literature abounding in British mosques and schools.
Handsomely funded by Saudi Arabia. Preaching extremism, violence.
The British Policy Exchange think-tank discovered, through visiting some 95 Islamic sites, fully one-quarter utilize documents that teach strident sectarianism. That non-Muslims are abhorrent. And that violence against apostates and infidels is often justified. "Saudi Arabia is the ideological source of much of this sectarianism and must be held to account for it" according to the Policy Exchange.
How indelicate. How diplomatically embarrassing. How peculiarly at odds with His Royal Highness's statements in support of anti-terror measures. Unfair, to be sure, but the thought occurs: Islamist, heal thineself.
Labels: Terrorism, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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