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To: TADSLOS
Here is the next part of the article. Interesting:

The point of the report, she said, was to demonstrate that the Saudi government – supposedly an ally in the war on terrorism – sends material into America that could encourage terror.

Many Muslim leaders acknowledge that oil-rich Saudi Arabia pays for an enormous amount of literature supporting the extremely restrictive salafi or Wahhabi version of Islam that holds sway in Saudi Arabia. That branch of Islam, which is highly critical of non-Muslims and even what it considers less-observant Muslims, is followed by a fraction of the world's billion-plus Muslims, experts say.

High-quality pamphlets and books are distributed in large quantities by the Saudi government and Saudi-funded organizations – while more moderate Muslim groups lack the finances to compete.

Some Saudi-produced materials end up at the Richardson mosque, Imam Kavakci said, but he added that neither he nor other mosque officials have time to read it all.

"I am not a police chief. I am not a district attorney," he said. "I am a religious guy."

The presence of the materials hardly makes the Richardson mosque an outpost of Wahhabi theology, Imam Kavakci said. He has had to explain to his members that some of the Saudi material does not represent his understanding of Islam.

"The Saudi approach is a problem," he said. "It's a problem for me, here."


26 posted on 02/05/2005 6:22:58 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; devolve; potlatch; Grampa Dave; yall
Ping to #24 and #26 .....

28 posted on 02/05/2005 6:24:50 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MeekOneGOP

The presence of the materials hardly makes the Richardson mosque an outpost of Wahhabi theology, Imam Kavakci said. He has had to explain to his members that some of the Saudi material does not represent his understanding of Islam.

Let's see, the Keepers of the two cities central to your
religion, send you religious material and you explain to
your co-religionists, that it really isn't meaningful as
to your religion.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight!


29 posted on 02/05/2005 6:34:33 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MeekOneGOP
The point of the report, she said, was to demonstrate that the Saudi government – supposedly an ally in the war on terrorism – sends material into America that could encourage terror.

According to this: The Saudi State and Terrorism, the point of the report is correct.

60 posted on 02/05/2005 9:11:59 AM PST by exhaustedmomma (Tancredo said Bush's guest-worker proposal is "a pig with lipstick")
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