HATRED'S KINGDOM (New book on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and terrorism)

Regnery Publishing / thbookservice.com ^ | February 2003 | Dore Gold

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Where is a violent, America-hating brand of Islam solidly in the cultural mainstream and maintained by the government?

In our ally, Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government postures and preens about its opposition to terrorism, but there's much more linking them to terrorism than just the fact that the September 11 terrorists were mostly Saudis - in fact, there is evidence linking the highest levels of Saudi government and society to radical and frankly terrorist Muslim groups. That evidence is in Hatred's Kingdom: Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Rise of Global Terrorism, a shocking new expose by Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations, Dore Gold.

Gold explores the violent origins of the fanatical Wahhabi sect that dominates Saudi government and culture, showing how it has labored to revive the long-dormant Islamic concept of jihad and to exhort Muslims to make war on "polytheists" - even including non-Wahhabi Muslims who dared to try to block their bloody path. He reveals how Wahhabis gained control of Saudi Arabia, withstood attempts to dislodge them, and made the desert kingdom into a hothouse for militant Islamic radicalism, spreading hatred and violence all over the globe.

Think that the Saudis' recent cozying up to terrorists is just an aberration on the part of a generally reliable ally? Think again: Gold here explains how Wahhabism went into hibernation as Saudi Arabia became a worldwide oil supplier - but he also provides a wealth of damning evidence that the hibernation is over: Wahhabism has been reactivated, and militant Muslims now have a global reach that is bankrolled largely by Saudi oil money. Gold also traces the impact of the Gulf War on Wahhabism's new outburst in the 1990s, and uncovers the real Saudi role in al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Best of all, Gold offers a solid answer to the burning question: after 9/11, is Saudi Arabia a reformed peacemaker or an unrepentant accomplice?

Disquieting facts about our chief ally in the Muslim world:

• A July 2002 analysis that proved that the Saudis were active "at every level of the terror chain"

• How the Saudis have used their oil billions to finance radical Muslim groups all over the world

• "The Emir of Jihad": the influential Muslim radical who advocated jihad against the United States - and received consistent support from Saudi Arabia

• The Saudi government cleric who taught that the Qur'an proves "with absolute clarity that there is a religious requirement to despise the infidel Jews and Christians"

• Osama bin Laden: why he is a direct spiritual heir of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabi Islam

• The high-level Saudi official who called armed jihad "the best thing one can volunteer for"

• How oil companies and other economic interests tried to paint a gentle face on Saudi Wahhabism in order to justify their dealing with these radical Muslims

• Israel and the Palestinians: how this protracted, multifaceted controversy has led to myopia in the State Department, leaving it unprepared to deal with other problems in the Muslim world

• It isn't just Israel: why the conflict over Israel is just one facet of the Muslim world's larger hatred for the West

• Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi: extremist statements from this respected Muslim cleric in the United States

• The high-ranking Saudi government official who helped Osama bin Laden get established in Afghanistan in the 1980s

• Central Asia: how Saudi Wahhabis sponsored an explosion of militant Islam in the former Soviet republics

• The money trail that links Saudi fanatics to a disquietingly high number of American Muslim groups

• Wahhabism in the Old Dominion: the Fairfax, Virginia group that describes those who call for brotherhood among religions as "parasites"

• How Osama crafted his declaration of jihad against the United States to achieve maximum resonance in Saudi Arabia

• Hard-line Wahhabi clerics: how they intimidated the Saudi government into adopting ever more extreme internal policies

• Did the Saudi regime actively support bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the 1990s? The evidence

• How Saudis have consistently backed the most radical Islamic groups operating in hot-spot countries around the world

• Why the Kingdom's denials of Saudi involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks had a hollow ring

• Saudi mosques: how they became hotbeds of anti-Americanism and incitement to terrorism - including post-September 11 calls for jihad against the United States

• Suicide bombings: clear evidence of the moral and financial support they received from Saudi officials, working from Islamic principles

• "Brothers of apes and pigs": the lurid, Qur'an-based anti-Semitism of many influential Saudi clerics

• Details of the post-September 11 public relations campaign the Saudis waged in order to convince Americans that they were on the side of the peacemakers

• How Saudis have scapegoated Israel as responsible for virtually all the trouble in the Middle East - including the anti-Semitism of Saudi clerics!

• Why the Saudis allowed U.S. troops onto their soil during the first conflict with Iraq but are reluctant to do so this time

• How Saudi King Faisal used Islam as a weapon against the secular socialism of Egypt's Gamel Nasser

• The infamous Saudi charities: their unmistakable links to global terrorism (and how they even served to pay the salaries of top al-Qaeda operatives!)

• The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Saudi links of this radical group

• Two essential components that have made for the present wave of Islamic terrorism

• How Wahhabi clerics used Islamic theology to reason to the idea that Christians and Jews had no right to live

• The role of American public relations firms and gullible journalists in painting the Saudi regime as a tolerant, reliable partner of the United States

• What the international community must do in order to restrain the radical aims of global Wahhabism

• The Saudis' double game: how their private support for terrorism has continued right alongside dramatic public peace initiatives

• Why Saudi Arabia must make a clear and unhesitant choice to support the U.S., or we will not win the war on terrorism - and why the Saudis have not yet made this choice

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[headsonpikes]

Destabilize the Middle East bump.

[RolandBurnam]

after iraq, iran or saudi, flip a coin.

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[swarthyguy]

It's too bad that Saudi is not the subsequent immediate target in the WoT. Cut off the funding and the body of the Hydra rots, regardless of the number of heads.

Estimates of Saudi help to jihadis over the past decade or so? 500 million? A Billion?

The really sad thing is the recent spike in oil prices has helped the coffers of our friends, the Saudis in a significant manner.

But the strong and silent tentacles of the Saudi Lobby have a strong, virtually unshakeable grip up and across the length and breadth of our government.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Please remove me from your ping list. Thank you.

[flamefront]

Reply:

The stole the oil fields by nationalizing them.
They are armed to threaten us.
Now, take the oil money from the islamofascists.

[flamefront]

How oil companies and other economic interests tried to paint a gentle face on Saudi Wahhabism in order to justify their dealing with these radical Muslims

Kissinger!
Say it.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[I_Love_My_Husband]

Very interesting book! BTW, did you know I've seen someone around FReep called Sabretoothh? I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't you!

[TADSLOS]

Looks like a must read. Thanks for posting.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping...

[rmlew]

The NY Sun has been nice enough to print exceprts of the book for the past 2 Weeks.
I would by it, but I get it for free with the rest of the paper.

[GOPJ]

bump

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the info, Saber. This is frightening.

[Sabertooth]

This is frightening.

The role of American public relations firms and gullible journalists in painting the Saudi regime as a tolerant, reliable partner of the United States

Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi : extremist statements from this respected Muslim cleric in the United States (go to pic #2 on the link)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Wow, great post Saber. Quite a lot information you have there. I don't blame you for posting the facts, and I agree with you that it's not GW's fault but, that he is being badly served. Thanks for your efforts to bring this into the open where hopefully fair-minded people can discuss about the issues at hand.

[Sabertooth]

Thanks for keeping an open mind, Victoria. I know you're a big fan of the President's.