I disagree: Tehran is the lesser head of two. Riyadh is the real source of terrorist ideology and money, dramatically outpacing Iranian efforts. We don't see it because the Saudis have spent so much money corrupting the state departments around the world (including our own). The Saudis have the subtlety that the Iranians lack.
10 out of 12 of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, and 100% of Islamic Studies departments are funded - at least in part, usually entirely - by Saudi money. Nobody in the MSM reports this, because Saudis own large shares in all the networks, including FOX. The commies didn't have a bottomless supply of money, and that's why they lost the Cold War. What can stop the Saudis?
You have a point, mrreaganaut! But to me, it's just that Saudi Arabia is not overtly at war with us, but I believe Iran is. They are already fighting proxy wars against us in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I do agree with you that Saudi Arabia is definitely the source and chief funder and exporter of the Wahabbi ideological view of Islam — which is backward, bloody-minded, irredentist, misogynistic, tribal, mired in the seventh century, and which easily crosses the line into a radical view of what "jihad" is.
What really infuriates me is the silence of so-called "moderate" Muslims, especially in America, whenever the radicalized jihadis succeed in pulling off bloody attacks against innocent civilians. To my way of thinking, their silence makes them complicit in these acts.
Though I did receive some heartening news the other day, on Fox. They featured a gentleman by the name of Zudhi Jasser, M.D., of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a "leading American Muslim voice taking back Islam from the demagoguery of the Islamo-fascists." He said that Islam needs "a period of modernization and reflection." He wants American Muslims to understand that, under the U.S. Constitution, there is a fundamental separation of church and state (so forget about implementing sharia law here). In effect, he was saying that America is at once a polity that maintains a secular order for governmental purposes, and a polity that respects and values the religious inspiration and insight of people of all faiths. Indeed, that protects and guarantees them.
So there are Muslim voices out there that do condemn the Islamo-fascists. I just wish there were more of them.
Thank you so much, mrreaganaut, for your excellent observations!