Reply With QuoteLike this is anything new. A "love to hate you" realtionship with the US. friends to your face and enemy behind your back
U.S. Lawmakers Told of Saudi-Funded Anti-West Rhetoric
U.S. Lawmakers Told of Saudi-Funded Anti-West Rhetoric
By WILLIAM MATTHEWS
The government of Saudi Arabia is distributing books and pamphlets across the United States in an effort to recruit American Muslims to an international struggle against Christians and Jews, the director of a religious freedom organization told the Senate Judiciary Committee Nov. 8.
In one instance, a booklet distributed by the Saudi Embassy in Washington offers instructions on how to “build a wall of resentment” between Muslims and infidels, said Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom.
Among the book’s directives: “Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel,” Shea quoted during a committee hearing.
The booklet and more than 200 others containing similar anti-Western diatribes “demonstrate the ongoing efforts by Saudi Arabia to indoctrinate Muslims in the United States in the hostility and belligerence of Saudi Arabia’s hard-line Wahhabi sect of Islam,” Shea said.
She said hate literature, booklets, text books and other material was gathered from mosques and Islamic centers in cities across the United States, including Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington and New York. Some of the material was published by the Saudi Education Ministry, Shea said.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he is concerned that Saudi Arabia is promoting Islamic extremism, and in doing so is aiding Islamic terrorists that the United States is fighting in the global war on terrorism.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the committee’s senior Democrat, said that President George W. Bush has “an obvious blind spot when it comes to Saudi Arabia.” Leahy said that although Bush has condemned Islamic radicalism in other Arab nations, the president praises Saudi Arabia: “a monarchy that has done more to promote Islamic extremism and discourage the emergence of moderate Muslim leaders than any nation.”
Another witness, Steven Emerson, told the committee that the Saudi government has not done as much as it could to crack down on a network of charities, foundations and Islamic propaganda centers that export Islamic extremism worldwide from Saudi Arabia.
Emerson, who is director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, said the current U.S. policy of not publicly confronting the Saudi government on the problem has not paid off.
In the Saudis’ defense, Anthony Cordesman told the committee that the Saudi government has made some progress toward clamping down on Islamic extremists, and that the United States should not expect “instant progress.” Nor should the United States focus on Saudi Arabia alone. Money and support for radical Islam also flows from Qatar, Egypt and other countries, said Cordesman, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Like this is anything new. A "love to hate you" realtionship with the US. friends to your face and enemy behind your back
we should cut all ties to Saudis, the move vile of mid east regimes. There will be a crude price shock, but there are ways to counter this break in relations. Saudis and Iran are the #1 sponsors of global terrorism
How could we cut ties with the saudis, the bush family is in bed with these bastards. Which has hurt us as a nation alot. Since day one I always thought that we should have never gone in Iraq and should have gone into Saudi Arabia. They are the real enemy to the united states and not Iraq. I would have support that action.
But again Bush family and the Suadi family are best of friends at our expense.
From the time we says that it wasn't Irak the real ennemy and the real danger!
US open his eyes?
I'm glad I'm not the only with that opinion, It wouldn't surprise me if our ties with Saudi Arabia would cause the downfall of American SuperpowerOriginally Posted by rocket13
Rather than read another's summary of what was discussed, colored by their personal spin, here's the link to the committee website, where you can read the full testimony of all the "experts": Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror?
I read a little of it. Still doesn't change the fact that they supplied much of the fiance for the terrorists before 2003. That much of the religious schools in pakistan are funded by them. I still and will always view the hicks of the middle east as the enemy. If it wasn't for the oil, I would never lift a figure to help that nation.
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