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.
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.
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.
And Moochelle Obama needs to pay for her own vacations.
It ain’t gonna happen.
"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.
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.
The writer would get beheaded by his fellow worshipers for being too moderate.
Maybe if we say, “Pretty Please”.
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.
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..
Nuke Mecca and Medina.
Then encourage Israel choose some targets too.
Fatwas have been issued as a result of statements much less inflammatory than these by Ed Husain.
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.
Dear Ed,
F*** you and the pedophile son of Satan you worship. We are going to kill every last one one of you.
Love,
L
Great. They found one reasonable sounding Muslim to serve as a poster child for the religion.
Sorry, but I’m not fooled. The problem with Islam is that Mr. Husain is the exception that proves the rule. That is, if you even believe he is on the level (and I am not there yet).
By buying Middle East oil, we put trillions of dollars into the hands of cavemen. The result: modern military and economic power in the hands of people whose political, philosophical, and moral development is at an infantile level.
The whole world would have been better off if the West had marched in, pushed the cavemen off the land, and stolen the oil.