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Saudi king slams Iran as 'spearhead of global terrorism'
Daily Mail UK ^ | 05/21/2017 | AFP

Posted on 05/21/2017 8:27:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The Saudi leader's speech came minutes before a highly anticipated address by Trump, who arrived in the Sunni kingdom on Saturday on his first foreign tour since taking office.

The United States and Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced an arms deal worth almost $110 billion, described as the largest in US history.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the deal was aimed at countering "malign Iranian influence".

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: saudiarabia; trumpvisit
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1 posted on 05/21/2017 8:27:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

And they are correct, again.


2 posted on 05/21/2017 8:34:14 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: BenLurkin
Absurd, it's mostly Deobandism or Salafism/Wahhabism.

He's saying this with a straight face in front of Trump.

3 posted on 05/21/2017 8:42:16 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve been waiting at least 9 years to hear what President Trump said today. “Drive them out!” bumper stickers for all!


4 posted on 05/21/2017 8:43:44 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: BenLurkin

Seems just a tad self-serving coming from the Saudis. It really doesn’t matter what they say, anyway.


5 posted on 05/21/2017 8:45:34 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, and bammy delivered 1.3 billion in cash to his true love Iran, the terrorists. Bammy is a traitor.


6 posted on 05/21/2017 8:47:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in a way that is contrary to nature results in insanity.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pot, meet kettle


7 posted on 05/21/2017 8:48:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: cdcdawg

Side with one Muslim against the other and eventually you’ll wind up fighting the Muslims you once supported.


8 posted on 05/21/2017 8:50:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Fine. Just let them kill each other first.


9 posted on 05/21/2017 8:54:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

And let Allah sort it out.


10 posted on 05/21/2017 8:55:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

And who authored the textbooks ISIS uses in their schools?

11 posted on 05/21/2017 9:00:28 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: BenLurkin

Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all fighting to be the big dog of the Islamic world.

And they’ll use the US as suckers to try to gain advantage over the others.

But make no mistake, when there is one clear winner amongst the three, they will come after us.


12 posted on 05/21/2017 9:02:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Meanwhile, ..... 15 of the 19 terrorists that flew planes into our buildings killing almost 3000 innocent people on 9-11-2001 were from Saudi Arabia.


13 posted on 05/21/2017 9:02:14 AM PDT by boycott
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To: BenLurkin

And if you buy their talk about doing away with the Islamic terrorist groups, you need to take your meds.

While Saudi Arabia is often a secondary source of funds and support for terror movements who can find more motivated and ideologically invested benefactors (e.g. Qatar), Saudi Arabia arguably remains the most prolific sponsor of international Islamist terrorism, allegedly supporting groups as disparate as the Afghanistan Taliban, Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Al-Nusra Front even using funding genereated by US government grants and American based Mosques founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, who are nothing more then two Saudi Princes and they are funding terrorist groups around the world to include 14 countries in the middle east, 7 in Africa, and 7 more in other areas around the world to include the US, England, France, Germany, and Russia

Saudi Arabia is said to be the world’s largest source of funds and promoter of Salafist jihadism, which forms the ideological basis of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and others. Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide, according to Hillary Clinton. According to a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state, “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups.
The violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan is partly bankrolled by wealthy, conservative donors across the Arabian Sea whose governments do little to stop them Three other Arab countries which are listed as sources of militant money are Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, all neighbors of Saudi Arabia.

Taliban and their militant partners the Haqqani network earn “significant funds” through UAE-based businesses. Kuwait is described as a “source of funds and a key transit point” for al-Qaida and other militant groups The Pakistani militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, used a Saudi-based front company to fund its activities in 2005 According to studies, most of suicide bombers in Iraq are Saudis. 15 of the 19 hijackers of the four airliners who were responsible for 9/11 originated from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon Osama bin Laden was born and educated in Saudi Arabia.

Starting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports The tens of billions of dollars in “petro-Islam” largess obtained from the recently heightened price of oil funded an estimated “90% of the expenses of the entire faith. Throughout the Sunni Muslim world, religious institutions for people both young and old, from children’s maddrassas to high-level scholarships received Saudi funding “books, scholarships, fellowships, and mosques” (for example, “more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years”) along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities, schools, mosques, etc The funding was also used to reward journalists and academics who followed the Saudis’ strict interpretation of Islam; and satellite campuses were built around Egypt for Al Azhar, the world’s oldest and most influential Islamic university.

The interpretation of Islam promoted by this funding was the strict, conservative Saudi-based Wahhabism or Salafism. In its harshest form it preached that Muslims should not only “always oppose” infidels “in every way”, but “hate them for their religion ... for Allah’s sake”, that democracy “is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century”, that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were “infidels”, etc According to former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, while this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations of Islam in Southeast Asia, and to pitch the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the “gold standard” of religion in minds of Muslims across the globe.

Patrick Cockburn accused Saudi Arabia of supporting extremist Islamist groups in the Syrian Civil War, writing: “In Syria, in early 2015, it supported the creation of the Army of Conquest, primarily made up of the al-Qaeda affiliate the al-Nusra Front and the ideologically similar Ahrar al-Sham, which won a series of victories against the Syrian Army in Idlib province.

While the Saudi government denies claims that it exports religious or cultural extremism, it is argued that by its nature, Wahhabism encourages intolerance and promotes terrorism. Former CIA director James Woolsey described it as “the soil in which Al-Qaeda and its sister terrorist organizations are flourishing

In 2015, Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of Germany, accused Saudi Arabia of supporting intolerance and extremism, saying: “Wahhabi mosques are financed all over the world by Saudi Arabia. In Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities. In May 2016, The New York Times editorialised that the kingdom allied to the U.S. had “spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form of Sunni Islam that inspired the 9/11 hijackers and that now inflames the Islamic State”

So much for this lie. And believe it or not, there’s more. But this is incredibly long to begin with. Point placed. And it’s obvious who I wish to eradicate, I’ve had too many friends and relatives killed by the groups of more than 2000 “known” terrorist organizations. A lot of them founded and supported by Saudi.

rwood


14 posted on 05/21/2017 9:12:45 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: BenLurkin

Huge pivot away from Bammy’s Iran. Good.


15 posted on 05/21/2017 9:13:43 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: boycott

There are 2,000 royal family members. When the SHTF we should feel free to disclose the whereabouts of ALL OF THEM. Next, destroy their oil fields. Just make sure all of ours are up and runnin’.


16 posted on 05/21/2017 9:14:59 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: BenLurkin

Uhhh...aren’t most terrorists Sunni or some variety thereof?


17 posted on 05/21/2017 9:15:23 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: BenLurkin

While Trump is over there, he needs to talk the Saudis into accepting all of the muslim refugees.


18 posted on 05/21/2017 9:18:26 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: boycott

Meanwhile, ..... 15 of the 19 terrorists that flew planes into our buildings killing almost 3000 innocent people on 9-11-2001 were from Saudi Arabia.
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I get that Trump has to make nice with them, but I don’t trust any of the savages.


19 posted on 05/21/2017 9:19:23 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: BenLurkin

Good


20 posted on 05/21/2017 9:20:21 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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