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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (8301)	8/13/2002 12:22:28 PM
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story.news.yahoo.com Nobel Winner Says Saudis Want Islam Dominance Tue Aug 13,10:55 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul has launched a virulent attack on Saudi Arabia, accusing the conservative Gulf kingdom of trying to lead Islam to world domination. Naipaul, 69, was awarded the Nobel literature prize last year amid fierce criticism from Muslim groups riled by his frequent barbs. He told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were a sign of Saudi Arabia's desire to convert the world to Islam. Most of the suicide hijackers who rammed planes into New York and Washington were from Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich ally of the United States. "I think that the driving force is Saudi Arabia, and I think something has to be done sooner or later," Naipaul said in remarks published Tuesday. He said Saudi money had funded Muslims in conflicts with non-Muslims in places like the Philippines and Bosnia. Trinidad-born Naipaul, a descendant of Hindu immigrants from northern India, says he considers all religions a scourge on humanity. Naipaul, who has lived in Britain since the 1950s, has often courted controversy during his 50-year career as a writer. His non-fiction works include "Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey," published in 1981 and criticized by some Muslim readers as a narrow and selective vision of Islam. The 48-nation Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization slammed the Nobel Academy last year, saying it had adopted "as a position hostile to Islam" in selecting Naipaul as its winner. The group accused the writer of willfully distorting realities and facts of religion, history and civilization.