Posted on 07/20/2004 12:00:37 PM PDT by KriegerGeist
Saudi Arabia: A House Divided
By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Reporter
July 20, 2004
Many observers believe that Saudi Arabia is in trouble. The religion of hate that the Saudis have protected and nurtured may devour it. Saudi Arabia's economy continues to shrink. Unemployment is 30 percent. Discontent is exploding.
CBN.com – WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia seems to be a kingdom at war with itself. And some ways, at war with America. Yes, there's been a long official friendship, and a highly publicized crackdown against Islamic radicals, but Saudi Arabia remains the ideological cradle and the finishing school for most of the Islamic terrorists who want to destroy America. Very little has changed.
The Saudis continue to play a double game. In the western media, they portray themselves as an ally of Washington. But at home, they continue to nurture hatred of the United States.
The mechanism of hatred is official Saudi Wahhabism, the religion of Osama bin laden. When Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed was asked if the Saudi government had been lying to the White House, he replied, "Yes. Very much. It's been lying to the White House. It's been lying to the American people, and to its population for 70 years now." Journalist and author Stephen Schwartz echoes that, saying, ""They are lying to everybody." He says the Saudis believe they can continue fooling the Christian West into thinking they have changed.
Schwartz says,"You know what the Wahhabis say? The Wahhabis say, "The Jews are as clever as Satan, but the Christians are just stupid. They continue to use Wahhabism as a control device, as a control ideology, to indoctrinate and control their people, while whispering in our ears that they're our best friends."
For instance, in a June 15th press release, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar said, "Senior religious scholars in Saudi Arabia have continually and unequivocally condemned terrorism. In our war against terrorism, these condemnations are a powerful weapon."
But just two weeks before, a Muslim professor on Saudi State TV, Sheik Dr. Ahmad Abd Al-Latif, said, "Cursing the oppressing Jews and the oppressing and plundering Christians, and the prayer that Allah will annihilate them, is permitted."[Don’t you just love the “religion of hypocrisy?”]
Saudi Arabia is not a democracy. So statements of hatred on official media are not accidents.
There are reported to be hundreds of Saudis in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, trying to kill their so-called American "allies." Who inspired them to go there? Clerics and scholars, employees of the Saudi government. [Don’t you just love back-stabbing allies?]
In May, Dr. Yassin Al-Khatib, a Saudi professor of Islamic law, said on a United Arab Emirates TV program that the U.S. invasion of Iraq makes it "...every Muslim's duty to go out against them, not only the Iraqis. Jihad today has become an individual duty that applies to each and every Muslim. It is forbidden for a person to remain silent…"
When Ali Al-Ahmed was asked: "You think most of the Saudi Royal Family opposes a free Iraq?"
He answered, "Absolutely. The Saudi Mufti, for example, sent a secret order to all the mosques to have them pray for Fallujah, and that's a code word to say people should go there and support their 'brothers.' And after that, hundreds of Saudis left (for) Iraq and joined, and they became the principle suicide bombers in Iraq."[So, these are the rats we are fighting in that rat-hole in Fallujah]
It was significant that the Saudi terrorists who beheaded American Paul Johnson called themselves the "Fallujah Brigade." Schwartz remarks, "Thousands of Imams, every Friday, are inciting Saudis to go north of the border to fight in Fallujah, and are continuing to refer to Christians as Crusaders, are continuing to refer to Jews as the children of pigs and monkeys, and are continuing in every way to incite terrorism."
On May 29, Wahhabi radicals broke into a compound of westerners in the city of Khobar and killed 22 people. An account of the attack later appeared on an al Qaeda web site by the terrorist commander, Fawwaz bin Muhammad Al-Nashami. It was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The chilling account shows Wahhabism in action; how grisly murders of innocent people are treated as religious service to God.
Al-Nashami said, "We entered one of the companies' offices, and found there an American infidel who looked like a director of one of the companies. When he turned to me, I shot him in the head, and his head exploded. We entered another office and found one infidel from South Africa, and our brother Hussein slit his throat. We asked Allah to accept these acts of devotion."
"At the same time, we found a Swedish infidel. Brother Nimr cut off his head, and put it at the gate of the building so that it would be seen by all those entering and exiting."
"We began to comb the site looking for infidels," said Al-Nashami. "We found Filipino Christians. We cut their throats and dedicated them to our brothers, the Mujahideen in the Philippines. Likewise, we found Hindu engineers and we cut their throats too, Allah be praised. We purged Muhammad's land of many Christians and polytheists." Al-Ahmed said, "They hate everyone, including the majority of Muslims, all Christians and Jews and other religions, and they despise them and they condemn them to Hell, using official means." [These admissions of participation in these crimes and guilt should be admissible in the World Court and the U.N.]
And with the Iraq war, hatred of America by Saudis citizens is reported to have reached unprecedented levels. On the Saudi street, America is the enemy. While members of the royal family and officials continue to support Osama bin Laden.
"The Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Salah Haji Sheik, praises bin Laden," says Al-Latif. "I have tapes of the Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia praising bin Laden."
Saudi professor Nasser Bin Suleiman Al-Omar, who runs a large Islamic Internet website appeared on a United Arab Emirates TV program last month to discuss the approaching collapse of the U.S. and the growing strength of Muslims within America.[Well then, they are making their intentions known]
Al-Omar stated, "America is collapsing from within. …Islam is advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America. Today, America is defeated. I have no doubt, not even for a minute that America is on its way to destruction. It will be destroyed gradually. But we must be patient."[The also have help from the liberal Democrats]
But more observers believe it is Saudi Arabia that is in trouble. The religion of hate that the Saudis have protected and nurtured may devour it. Saudi Arabia's economy continues to shrink. Unemployment is 30 percent. Discontent is exploding.
The Saudi intelligence services are said to be so infiltrated by al-Qaeda sympathizers that the Kingdom's counter-terror campaign is probably doomed. And someday, those Saudi terrorists sent to fight Americans in Fallujah will come home, bringing their urban warfare skills with them, and perhaps try to overthrow the monarchy.
It is hard to tell whether the Saudi rulers know what they are up against, because they seem to be lying to themselves. Crown Prince Abdullah has blamed recent terror attacks in Saudi Arabia on the Jews.
Schwartz says, "Saudi Arabia is like a bus with no brakes headed for a cliff. If they do not embrace a path of a rational transition toward a normal existence, then, yes, they are going to fall and it's going to be very unpleasant for the people living there and it's going to be unpleasant for the whole world.
The Saudi Embassy in Washington declined our offer to be a part of this story. But the evidence suggests that in the war on terror, and the House of Saudi is a house divided. It remains to be seen whether this house divided against itself will stand. [We can only hope and pray that Satan’s loyal followers shoot themselves in the foot…or like in the Old Testament, turn on each other in confusion and each man’s sword is against his fellow]
Ping! As if you didn't know this...
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More empty words.
Blah blah blah.
Who's going to tell the President?
Wake me up when Uncle Sam takes his balls out of storage and goes after the Saudis.
Can't let the gravy train get derailed because of a few stiffs, can we?
ping
I heard this piece on TV just now. Roberston commented that Prince Bandar throws lavish parties at a mansion in D.C., and that it's "the place to be." Hmmmmm. Maybe that's where all the talking heads and congressmen go to rub elbows and have a few martinis, huh? Wouldn't wanna squelch all that fun in the name of national security, would we...
Every time I think of Saudi Arabia I'm reminded of that mother ship in Roland Emmerich's film Independence Day...
Alien:"...peace? no peace..." President: "then what to you want us to do?" Alien: "diiiiiiiie...."
So, first the virus, then the nuke....
As the President said in the speech in the movie: "we fight no for land or ideals but for our very right to live" (or words to that effect)
That's Islam alright! They're just positioning themselves before they discharge their primary weapon.
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