[Fred Nerks]

Points One and Two - isn't that what the islamist clerics preach?
Am I to take it that all Saudi wahhabi clerics are in breach of the International Covenant?

If so, I now better understand the reasons for mufti Halali's (pending) removal from his postion.

Here are his own words:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12226

Support for Hizbullah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad.

[USF]

Ahh yes, I remember that too, from MEMRI (yet another site I follow).

I remember what struck me at the time was that claim of Australia being discovered by Muslims amongst all that Islamofascist ranting about Zionist plots of global domination. Islamic attempts at historical revisionism is a danger that many in the West don't seem to take seriously enough because they don't understand the motives or consequences. But that's another subject.

You asked about if the Wahhabi clerics are in breach of the ICCPR. I'm no lawyer and thats not my field, but on the face of it it sure looks like it. But in reality, if the institutions within their host nations do not have the will, or the means to act then it's little more than words on a piece of paper.

Perhaps it's an angle that could be exploited in our multifaceted approach against the worse of the Isamofascists one day, and one I have not given much consideration to up until now.