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Saudis Must Stop Exporting Extremism
New York Times ^ | August 23, 2014 | By Ed Husain

Posted on 08/23/2014 5:01:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islam’s birthplace.

Let’s be clear: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram, the Shabab and others are all violent Sunni Salafi groupings. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has been the official sponsor of Sunni Salafism across the globe.

What is religious extremism but this aim to apply Shariah as state law? This is exactly what ISIS (Islamic State) is attempting do with its caliphate. Unless we challenge this un-Islamic, impractical and flawed concept of trying to govern by a rigid interpretation of Shariah, no amount of work by a United Nations agency can unravel Islamist terrorism.

Saudi Arabia created the monster that is Salafi terrorism. It cannot now outsource the slaying of this beast to the United Nations. It must address the theological and ideological roots of extremism at home, starting in Mecca and Medina. Reforming the home of Islam would be a giant step toward winning against extremism in this global battle of ideas.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alexjones; arabia; bangladesh; egypt; india; infowars; iraq; isis; islam; islamists; israel; jayvee; kurdistan; kurtnimmo; pakistan; russia; salafi; saudiarabia; sharia; syria; terrorism; yazidi; yazidis
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Ed Husain is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior adviser to the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

A version of this op-ed appears in print on August 23, 2014, on page A23 of the New York edition with the headline: Saudis Must Stop Exporting Extremism.

1 posted on 08/23/2014 5:01:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exporting extremism is the only way the Saudis can keep themselves safe from the peoples of the surrounding countries who live in a desert and don’t even have air conditioning while the Saudis live like kings.

They can’t stop it, so they just finance it and redirect it.


2 posted on 08/23/2014 5:06:47 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

why doesn’t the New York Times just call the Saudis racist, sexist, homophobes?

That’ll fix the problem.

Or maybe they can take start a hashtag with everyone posting selfies?

That could fix it too.


3 posted on 08/23/2014 5:07:41 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And Moochelle Obama needs to pay for her own vacations.

It ain’t gonna happen.


4 posted on 08/23/2014 5:10:00 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Ronald Reagan

"Because of the high oil prices of the 1970s the Soviet leadership avoided serious economic reforms, such as those that saved Deng Xiaoping’s China. Instead, it relied on oil revenues as a means of keeping its decrepit economy going . . . 'One of the most effective ways in which [Reagan's] economic policies weakened the Soviet Union was by helping bring about a drastic fall in the price of oil in the 1980s, thereby denying the Soviet Union large inflows of hard currency.'"

Turn our oil loose. The Islamists will be the losers. Except our president seems to favor them.

5 posted on 08/23/2014 5:10:59 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We are rightly outraged at the beheading of James Foley by Islamist militants, and by ISIS’ other atrocities, but we overlook the public executions by beheading permitted by Saudi Arabia. By licensing such barbarity, the kingdom normalizes and indirectly encourages such punishments elsewhere.

Saudi beheadings don't appear to be particularly cruel, at least to my way of thinking. A sword is used, and the head comes right off; the condemned is dead before he can know what hit him. Not so the terrorists' form of beheading, where the head is slowly hacked off at the throat.

6 posted on 08/23/2014 5:10:59 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

” the condemned is dead before he can know what hit him.”

From what I understand in this sort of sudden decapitation enough blood remains in the brain for consciousness to continue for 15 or 20 seconds.


7 posted on 08/23/2014 5:19:55 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The writer would get beheaded by his fellow worshipers for being too moderate.


8 posted on 08/23/2014 5:21:57 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe if we say, “Pretty Please”.


9 posted on 08/23/2014 5:24:25 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Sauds were exporting their 'radical' sons to Iraq a few years ago to get killed off. Unfortunately, the sons grew up and are now causing even more problems. Before Iraq they of course sent their sons over here via airliners.

We are still waiting on several [28]pages on the 9/11 commission to be finally released. Unfortunately .Gov refuses to allow all of the truth to come out.

10 posted on 08/23/2014 5:24:31 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

Saudi money buys a lot in Washington DC.


11 posted on 08/23/2014 5:25:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Bowing and holding hands with Sauds photos would fill up FR.


12 posted on 08/23/2014 5:27:58 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islam’s birthplace

Don’t get it??
islam is as extreme as it comes. You follow islam you are an extremist. There is no such thing as moderate islam..


13 posted on 08/23/2014 5:28:12 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nuke Mecca and Medina.
Then encourage Israel choose some targets too.


14 posted on 08/23/2014 5:30:28 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: dfwgator
They probably paid quite a bit over the last twelve years to help our people lose limbs over there in sand land.
ENOUGH.
Damn, we could neutron them and turn the whole country into a place to deport all the MoFo’s away from western civilization.
15 posted on 08/23/2014 5:36:11 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: dfwgator

You nailed the largest problem. Money. They got it to burn.


16 posted on 08/23/2014 5:38:09 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fatwas have been issued as a result of statements much less inflammatory than these by Ed Husain.


17 posted on 08/23/2014 5:49:03 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: right way right

Tommy tancredo was right about nuking m and m.


18 posted on 08/23/2014 5:57:23 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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Here’s what we do. Turn the country over to the muzzies and let them take the oil off the market. We’ll be ok. Our ‘allies’ will need us. Next turn the entire royal family over to the fanatics. I don’t think they will del the oil for terrorism $$$. Could be wrong.


19 posted on 08/23/2014 6:03:00 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why are our politicians kowtowing to the Saudis when 19 of them attacked us on 9-11. Remember the massive redaction on the 911 Report intended to protect Saudis? The first thing we Americans need is a mandatory law applicable to all our elected leaders that any influence buying by any non-USA national will be punishable as treason.


20 posted on 08/23/2014 6:11:12 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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