Saudi Terror Watch

TownHall.com ^ | May 19, 2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

[WaterDragon]

With the grace and speed of a child’s toy top, Saudi Arabia’s top public relations “spinner,” Adel al-Jubeir, has been whirling across the airwaves and newsprint of the American media ever since the Kingdom experienced last week’s wave of murderous, terrorist bombings.

Mr. al-Jubeir’s ubiquitousness (notably, in place of Prince Bandar, the equally charming, but less-Western and more controversial Saudi Ambassador) is evidence of how much trouble the Saudis now know they are in.

His mission: to ensure that American audiences see Saudi Arabia as a fellow-victim of radical Islamic (or Islamist) terrorism -- not as its most important source.

Toward this end, the man whose day-job makes him the foreign policy advisor to Crown Prince Abdullah, employed his many impressive linguistic and other skills (in particular, an unaccented and idiomatic command of the English language, a magician’s gift for dissimulation and verbal prestidigitation, even choking-up theatrically at one point).

And he largely got away with it. Until, that is, he made the mistake of appearing Sunday with Tim Russert on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”....(SNIP)

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[Bobby777]

Adel al-Jubeir is a pathetic spin-doctor for the Saudi regime ... they have looked the other way while this monster grew, they nurtured it, and now it is poised to devour them ... and since 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, let me just say:

welcome to the party, pal!

[Joe Boucher]

The Saudis like the french have made their beds, let them lie in them.
The house of saud will fall and the land of saudi arabia will fall into killing fields and anarchy. The end result will be years of misery in saudi arabia. Just what they deserve.

[Savage Beast]

This is a well written article, and Frank Gaffney is an intelligent writer; however, his list of "things" that the Saudis "could do...that would be...helpful" emphasizes the things that the United States could do...that would be even more helpful, such as outlawing radical Islam as a subversive organization and preventing immigration from Muslim countries.

The fact that a lightweight like Tim Russert could fluster a prestidigitator like Adel al-Jubeir reveals the tenuous balance of the Saudi position.

[Savage Beast]

...unless they come to their senses, ally themselves with the civilized world against Islamic fanaticism, expunge Wahhabism as an effective force from Saudi Arabia, and enter the modern world as a constitutional monarchy with strict separation of religion and state.

I know. I know... We're talking major revolution! However, the Saudis do have enormous resources, including access to effective propaganda and control, and anyway, it might be their only real option.

[WaterDragon]

....the things that the United States could do...that would be even more helpful, such as outlawing radical Islam as a subversive organization.

Very true. But I don't agree that we must stop all Muslim immigration. The terrorist Muslims would like nothing better than for us to punish non-terroristic Muslims. We'd just be doing the terrorists' work for them. They hate their non-terrorist brethren as much as they hate us.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, but, at least until the war on terror abates, Muslim immigration can be expected only to exacerbate the problem. For one thing, it's impossible to screen out the dangerous fanatics from the rest, and furthermore "mainstream" Muslim denunciation of fanaticism has been lukewarm at best.

[angkor]

"mainstream" Muslim denunciation of fanaticism has been lukewarm at best.

While reading a post over the weekend, I came to the realization that such a denuciation may be difficult for "moderate" Muslims.

The post - "Islam growing rapidly in U.S. suburbs", AP, 5/17/2003, WAYNE PARRY - was an AP paen to the lovely little mosques growing up in the heart of suburbia. By gosh, the AP report made them look as American as apple pie.

Featured was the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, VA, which is "set among the single-family homes in a quiet neighborhood ... Its members are doctors, dentists, engineers and researchers."

Sounds great right? An enlightened place where fanaticism wouldn't possibly exist, yes?

Well (apparently) unbeknown to the AP, Dar Al-Hijrah would count among it's "parishoners" Islamist limelights such as Mousa Abu Marzook (a Hamas leader who spent many years in Falls Church); Abdurahman Alamoudi, who said at a White House rally that "We are all supporters of Hamas. I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah"; Abdula bin Laden, Osama's brother and former president of World Assembly of Muslim Youth; and Samir Salah, who ran a branch of Al Taqwa ("Fear Of God") bank in the Bahamas and SAAR, both money laundering entities for al Qaeda. He also was a director of Dar Al-Hijrah mosque.

Oh yeah, it's also where Hanji Hanjour and other 9/11 hijackers went to make connections for their phoney Virginia driver's licenses (they made their connection at the mosque, who drove them less than a mile down Rt. 7 to meet a phoney documents ring).

So you can see that the "denunciation of fanaticism" might be difficult at the "solidly middle-class America" Dar Al-Hijrah mosque (as AP calls it), because the place is infested with the worst of the American Islamists, including those directly connected with al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the 9/11 hijackers, and probably several other terrorist groups.

Oh yeah, no surprise that Dar Al-Hijrah mosque is also known as a solid, hardline Saudi Wahabbi mosque.

Don't expect too many denunciations of terrorism from this quaint institution "in a quiet neighborhood ablaze in purple azalea bushes and scarlet-and-white magnolia trees."

[WaterDragon]

The problem is there are few attempts to weed out terrorists from the immigrants. I very much doubt the State Department has changed its tune.

And the media gives favorable coloring to the terroristic Muslims while utterly ignoring those who denounce terrorism....and there are many. A Sufi mosque leader even went before Congress, before 9-11, trying to warn America about the Wahhabis infiltrating American mosques, warning about the violence directed at Muslims who objected.

Most of the fear of Muslims in this country is FED by the fascistic mainstream media who would LOVE to see America turn on ALL Muslims. That really frosts me!

[astounded]

Does anyone else get the feeling that al qaeda "operations" in Saudi Arabia are the real-life version of the scene from the movie "Blazing Saddles" when Cleavon Little holds a pistol to his head and says "stand back, or the nig*** gets it"? LOL.

[WaterDragon]

What a thought! You have a warped mind, astounded! LOL

I think you are right.

[bert]

If you listen, you will hear truth. The propaganda is from within.

[astounded]

Thanks Dragon - I'm like Avis - I try harder.LOL. Have a good day!

[Seti 1]

With the advent of "diversity" and the end of the "melting pot" the US has developed self-conscious ethnic minorities who are busy working to benefit the home country. That used to be a major no-no but it is becoming more accepted all the time. The Muslim and Jewish US numbers are about equal now, although the Muslims are far less organized and effective. Each group would like nothing better than to limit the immigration of the other. This was true before 9/11 and is still true.

[DoctorMichael]

1)  Stop their organized efforts to recruit convicted felons in the U.S. prison system as cannon-fodder for the Wahhabist jihad.

2)  Stop certifying and placing Wahhabi chaplains in the U.S. military -- enabling them to convert service personnel (perhaps including Sergeant Asan Akbar, who allegedly “fragged” his commanding officers just before the 101st Airborne’s “jump-off” into Iraq) to a murderously hostile view of this country and its foreign policy purposes.

3)  Stop trying -- through, for example, the underwriting of by some estimates 80% of the mortgages of American mosques -- to dominate the Muslim community in this country and to make it an instrument for transforming this nation into an intolerantly Islamist one.

4) Stop Wahhabi-funded and -orchestrated  indoctrination and recruitment efforts on more than 500 college campuses around the United States.

5) Stop funding organizations in this country that purport to be “mainstream” Muslim- and Arab-American groups but that, in fact, express sympathy for Wahhabist and other terrorist groups and work to advance their agenda in this country and around the world.  Their political- influence operations -- aimed at the White House, the Congress, the media and law enforcement -- arguably pose an even greater long-term danger than the homicidal attacks they excuse and otherwise enable.

Anything less from the Saudis will be tantamount to them remaining, as President Bush has put it, “with the terrorists” and condemn them to being treated accordingly.

[TLBSHOW]

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