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From: Keith Feral	6/26/2005 6:35:24 PM
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pbs.org I especially like the full print of this Shiites experience living in Saudi Arabia. A couple points that he makes clear, the link between the House of Saad and House of Wahhab is disrupting Muslim life in the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia treats women as a possession, they have no legal right to even sign their name. Employment for women is 70% because they have no right to study history. The only people that treat women worse are the Taliban. He makes it very clear that Salafis think that 95% of the Muslims do not practice real Islam. State textbooks say that the Shi'a and nonbelievers will go to hell. They also say that the Salafi can practice violence against these impure Muslims and Jews. I really like the point he makes about these textbooks being written by the same guy since 1990. Some of his messages were so unpopular, they had to be pulled. However, the same Salafi is still doing all the writing. 15 of the 19 hijackers were all Saudis that came from the same regions of Saudi Arabia where Wahhabism began just 200 years ago. It is not ironic that the most abusive and repressive people are the ones that always think they are so special. Racism is a particular problem with these terrorists. His article does a pretty good job talking about the self righteious attitude of these fundamentalists. I think the real reason that Bush and Cheney are defending our Muslim friends in Bagdhad is to protect them from religious persecution that has been created within the Saudi state. At least that is what's happening at this point. Who knows what would have happened if SH were still in office? He was guilty of too many crimes and was more pre-disposed to political deals with the extreme fundamentalists coming out of Saudi Arabia. He obviously had no problem killing Shiites and Kurds in his own country. I think the administration felt it was unavoidable to remove him from office before the real bad guys got to him. Had the Salafi religion ruined the Shiite and Kurdish religions in Iraq, it would have been very difficult to shut down the resistance across the entire region. I believe Bush was probably correct in thinking that we should have entered Iraq before we bothered with Afghanistan. The problems were much greater in Iraq than they ever were in Afghanistan in containing Salafi based terror and influence. Saudi Arabia was paying for all of the new religious schools to be built in Muslim countries outside of Saudi Arabi. Not only were they brewing their home based fundamentalism, they were exporting their message of intolerance to other areas. If you ask me what the war on terror is all about, it is containment of Salafi/Taliban intolerance of all Jews & Crusaders & impure Muslims. No one is safe when it comes to people trying to purify the world. One last thing that he brings out is the connection between the state and official religion of all Salafis. The state controls the relgious clerics which supports the intolerance. They condone the violence or refuse to condemn the acts of violence. I think Saudi Arabia has a real problem built around it's alliance between the House of Saad and the House of Wahhab as suggested by this writer. The full interviews for the other writers are also available from the pbs link I posted the other day. All are worthy of a second glance. If any of this is to happen, the Muslim world is going to have to eat some crow and start condemning their own violence. I would love to see the new government in Iraq begin making demands of the Saudis to condemn the killing rituals against the Shiite policemen. Mostly, we hear the reverse where the clerics blast the Shi'a for hunting down the Sunni terror leaders and killing the insurgents.

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