Posted on 08/23/2014 5:01:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ALONG with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islams birthplace.
Lets be clear: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram, the Shabab and others are all violent Sunni Salafi groupings. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has been the official sponsor of Sunni Salafism across the globe.
What is religious extremism but this aim to apply Shariah as state law? This is exactly what ISIS (Islamic State) is attempting do with its caliphate. Unless we challenge this un-Islamic, impractical and flawed concept of trying to govern by a rigid interpretation of Shariah, no amount of work by a United Nations agency can unravel Islamist terrorism.
Saudi Arabia created the monster that is Salafi terrorism. It cannot now outsource the slaying of this beast to the United Nations. It must address the theological and ideological roots of extremism at home, starting in Mecca and Medina. Reforming the home of Islam would be a giant step toward winning against extremism in this global battle of ideas.
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A version of this op-ed appears in print on August 23, 2014, on page A23 of the New York edition with the headline: Saudis Must Stop Exporting Extremism.
Exporting extremism is the only way the Saudis can keep themselves safe from the peoples of the surrounding countries who live in a desert and don’t even have air conditioning while the Saudis live like kings.
They can’t stop it, so they just finance it and redirect it.
why doesn’t the New York Times just call the Saudis racist, sexist, homophobes?
That’ll fix the problem.
Or maybe they can take start a hashtag with everyone posting selfies?
That could fix it too.
And Moochelle Obama needs to pay for her own vacations.
It ain’t gonna happen.
"Because of the high oil prices of the 1970s the Soviet leadership avoided serious economic reforms, such as those that saved Deng Xiaopings China. Instead, it relied on oil revenues as a means of keeping its decrepit economy going . . . 'One of the most effective ways in which [Reagan's] economic policies weakened the Soviet Union was by helping bring about a drastic fall in the price of oil in the 1980s, thereby denying the Soviet Union large inflows of hard currency.'"
Turn our oil loose. The Islamists will be the losers. Except our president seems to favor them.
Saudi beheadings don't appear to be particularly cruel, at least to my way of thinking. A sword is used, and the head comes right off; the condemned is dead before he can know what hit him. Not so the terrorists' form of beheading, where the head is slowly hacked off at the throat.
” the condemned is dead before he can know what hit him.”
From what I understand in this sort of sudden decapitation enough blood remains in the brain for consciousness to continue for 15 or 20 seconds.
The writer would get beheaded by his fellow worshipers for being too moderate.
Maybe if we say, “Pretty Please”.
We are still waiting on several [28]pages on the 9/11 commission to be finally released. Unfortunately .Gov refuses to allow all of the truth to come out.
Saudi money buys a lot in Washington DC.
Bowing and holding hands with Sauds photos would fill up FR.
I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running amok in Islams birthplace
Don’t get it??
islam is as extreme as it comes. You follow islam you are an extremist. There is no such thing as moderate islam..
Nuke Mecca and Medina.
Then encourage Israel choose some targets too.
You nailed the largest problem. Money. They got it to burn.
Fatwas have been issued as a result of statements much less inflammatory than these by Ed Husain.
Tommy tancredo was right about nuking m and m.
Here’s what we do. Turn the country over to the muzzies and let them take the oil off the market. We’ll be ok. Our ‘allies’ will need us. Next turn the entire royal family over to the fanatics. I don’t think they will del the oil for terrorism $$$. Could be wrong.
Why are our politicians kowtowing to the Saudis when 19 of them attacked us on 9-11. Remember the massive redaction on the 911 Report intended to protect Saudis? The first thing we Americans need is a mandatory law applicable to all our elected leaders that any influence buying by any non-USA national will be punishable as treason.
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