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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (36032)8/6/2002 9:38:25 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
John, Prince Abdullah may have every good intention in the world to bring peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it hardly excuses the activities of the Wahabbis and other extremists within his regime in creating Madrassas and brain-washing the youth of the muslim world into preaching Jihad against the west.

He's in a position of weakness.. He, and the house of Saud, who have "ridden the tiger" of radical Islam into power, now find it threatening to consume the royal family. Thus, they try and placate their internal dissidents who have a more extreme vision for how Arabia and the muslim world should be ruled, while also being forced to placate and offer hope to the west that all is "not as it appears" post-9/11 and that Saudi Arabia is not the heart of radical Islam.

But it's obvious that extremist Islam is being financed by oil revenues received from the west. We are paying money to a regime which is then forced by its internal extremists to pay for the training of "soldiers" who will conduct Jihad and bring about the downfall of the West.

So you bet he's going to be "nice".. He's very vulnerable right now, stuck in the middle of two powerful forces, extremism and western mandated reform. And he has to make a decision... regressionism or modernism and moderation.

Hawk
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