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February 1, 2005

Saudi Arabia Publishes Hate Ideology

While the Iraqis go to the polls to vote in their own free government, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) continues to publish hate-filled propaganda here in the United States, according to the this report from Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom.

Among the key findings of the report;

  • Various Saudi government publications gathered for this study, most of which are in Arabic, assert that it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and warn against imitating, befriending, or helping them in any way, or taking part in their festivities and celebrations;
  • The documents promote contempt for the United States because it is ruled by legislated civil law rather than by totalitarian Wahhabi-style Islamic law. They condemn democracy as un-Islamic;
  • The documents stress that when Muslims are in the lands of the unbelievers, they must behave as if on a mission behind enemy lines. Either they are there to acquire new knowledge and make money to be later employed in the jihad against the infidels, or they are there to proselytize the infidels until at least some convert to Islam. Any other reason for lingering among the unbelievers in their lands is illegitimate, and unless a Muslim leaves as quickly as possible, he or she is not a true Muslim and so too must be condemned.
  • Sufi and Shiite Muslims are viciously condemned.
Freedom House says that they undertook this project "... after many Muslims requested the Center’s help in exposing Saudi extremism in the hope of freeing their communities from ideological strangulation." That is very good news indeed. In additon to our War on Terror, there is a very real war within Islam between moderates and radicals. It is not completely clear to me that the moderates are winning. The elections in Iraq and that moderates went to Freedom House are good signs, however.

A copy of the 89 page publication can be downloaded from their website here. It makes for very disturbing reading.

Hat tip to G Gordon Liddy for making me aware of the Freedom House publication during his radio show.


Posted by Tom at February 1, 2005 1:02 PM

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