"Frontline" had a very good piece last night about a growing Islamic sect in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, which has had close ties with the Taliban... In fact they are just as radical and there are more of them. This "religion" is being funded with Saudi oil money. 15 of the 19 trade center terrorists originated from Saudi Arabia. bin Laden is a hero among the masses in Saudi Arabia, therefore the title of the program is "Saudi time bomb?".
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Very interesting and enlightening reading, especially the interviews... pbs.org
"... Exactly. If you don't believe in Salafi (Wahhabi), you are not a human being. You are something of a lower grade, that you can be persecuted or hurt, and it is OK, accepted, in that ideology. It's accepted to be killed, or maimed... The religious authority in Saudi Arabia control the justice system. This is very important. ... All the judges in Saudi Arabia are Salafi. ... And mostly Nejdi from the central region in Saudi Arabia, which creates a lot of problems for the rest of Saudi citizens. ..."
"...Yes. That's true. The Saudi government has systematically financed the propagation of Salafi Islam, by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on three out of seven universities in Saudi Arabia [that] are religious universities. They built thousands of mosques around the world, including the United States. They have given free scholarships to non-Saudis, to come and study Salafi and become Salafi. They sent 2,000 Salafi clerics around the world every summer. They print books by the millions in every languages to promote Salafi Islam. They have conventions, conferences."
>Are there any other excerpts you want to read to us from any of these books?<
"... It says here, it says number four: It is permissible in Islam to destroy, burn, and vandalize the fortresses of kofar. American or Christians are kofar. And everything that they destroy, everything that they use ... against Muslims ... if the destruction was to support Islam and destroy the kofar." |
