Posted by Norman E. Hooben
Before you read the Bill Clinton-Barack Obama like
denials perhaps you might want scan the following:
1. This from Wikipedia
- Saudi Arabia is said to be the world's largest source
of funds for Salafi jihadist terrorist militant groups, such as al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Taiba in South Asia, and donors
in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni
terrorist groups worldwide, according to Hillary
Clinton.[1]
According to a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state, "Saudi
Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups."[2]
also from Wikipedia :
15 of the 19 hijackers of the four airliners who were responsible for 9/11 originated from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon.[8] Osama bin Laden was a Saudi by birth. His family is a wealthy one intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family.
also from Wikipedia :
| Nationality | Number |
|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | |
| United Arab Emirates | |
| Egypt | |
| Lebanon |
2. Headline
from Atlas
Shrugs website - Boston Jihadi Bombers members of
Wahhabi cell funded by Saudi Al Qaeda:
Two Chechen brothers from Dagestan, members of a
Wahhabi cell funded by Saudi al Qaeda, were identified as the terrorists who
detonated two bombs at the Boston Marathon last Monday and carried out a
bombing-shooting spree at the MIT campus in Waterton outside Boston, Friday,
April 19, in which a police officer was killed in a fiery firefight.
4. The Los
Angeles Times - Saudi Arabia-based
charities still funding terrorists, GAO says - WASHINGTON — Despite success in shutting down
the financing of terrorist groups within its borders, Saudi Arabia remains a
top source of funding for Al Qaeda elsewhere and Taliban insurgents in
Afghanistan, the Government Accountability Office said in a report to Congress.
5. The
Independent (United Kingdom) - Saudi Arabia is 'biggest funder of terrorists': Saudi
Arabia is the single biggest contributor to the funding of Islamic extremism
and is unwilling to cut off the money supply, according to a leaked note from
Hillary Clinton. The US Secretary of State says in a secret memorandum that
donors in the kingdom still "constitute the most significant source of
funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide" and that "it has been an
ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing
emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority".
6. And perhaps you still believe that Islam is a religion of peace (what a joke!), here's a short summary of what it is they do:
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.
Most of today's Muslims exercise a personal choice to interpret their holy book's many calls to violence according to what their own moral preconceptions find justificable. Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.
Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. Muhammad's own martial legacy - and that of his companions - along with the remarkable stress on violence found in the Quran have produced a trail of blood and tears across world history. ~ Source: The Religion Of Peace.com
The following from an MEMRI email:
Following Boston Marathon Bombing: Saudi Media, Officials In Anti-Terror Campaign
Following the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, reports in the U.S. media claimed that Saudi nationals may have been involved in the attack. The New York Post reported that a Saudi student, 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Harbi, who was wounded in the bombing, had been question on suspicion of involvement in the act. Subsequent reports mentioned another Saudi national, Noura Al-'Ajaji, who is studying in the U.S. and was also wounded in the bombing.
The Saudi media responded to these reports with a flurry of articles that denied the involvement of Saudis in the bombing, especially that of the student Al-Harbi. Several papers published interviews with Al-Harbi and his father, in which they clarified that Al-Harbi's questioning had been routine and that he was not a suspect.[1] The papers also cited the Saudi cultural attaché in the U.S., Muhammad Al-'Issa, who said that U.S. authorities had assured him there was no indication that any Saudis were involved in the attack.[2]
The Saudi press also made considerable effort to emphasize that the kingdom had no connection to the Boston bombing, and that it condemns all acts of terrorism in the strongest possible terms. In fact, numerous articles were published which castigated the attack and terrorism in general. Some articles claimed that no matter what the nationality and religion of the perpetrators, they are terrorists and deviants who represent nobody but themselves. Others stressed that Saudi Arabia itself has been combating terrorism for years, and that the world has benefited from its expertise in this area. The headline of the April 14 issue of the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat quoted U.S. State Secretary John Kerry, who said at a Senate hearing that Saudi Arabia's contribution and its war on terror have helped to thwart many plots.[3] One article focused on suicide bombings, calling them a deviation that is not sanctioned by the Islamic shari'a.
It should be noted that many articles also praised U.S. President Barack Obama for not hurrying to place the blame on anyone, unlike former president George W. Bush after 9/11.
In addition to the campaign in the Saudi press, there were condemnations by senior Saudi officials, chief among them King 'Abdallah himself, who sent an official message to President Obama in which he said: "We condemn these shameful terrorist acts that are directed at innocent and defenseless people and are perpetrated by a criminal group that has undertaken to be the enemy of mankind as a whole. We stress that those who carried out this deed represent only themselves, and that no religion, morals or values could sanction it."[4]
This report reviews some of the articles published in the Saudi press in response to the Boston bombing which condemned this attack and terrorism in general.
Islam Is Infected With Virus Of Terrorism
Dr. Muhammad
Nahed Al-Kuwaiz, a columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh, wrote that the Muslims must acknowledge the existence of Islamic
terrorism, which stems from an ideology of extremism and takfir (accusing others of heresy), and called to purge Islam of
this ideology: "When one person carries out an attack we call him a
terrorist or a retard or a psychopath. When two people carry out an attack we
say they are both terrorists and lunatics. But when ten people carry out an
attack we [start] wondering about their motives. So when hundreds of members of
the same religion [carry out] bombings all over the place – in mosques, markets,
hotels, [public] gathering places, planes, and [subway] tunnels – and are later
identified as Muslims, we have no choice but to admit that this is Islamic
terrorism.
"Some are
angered by the equation drawn between Islam and terrorism, and argue that Islam
is a religion of love. This is true of the real Islam, but today's Islam is
infected with the virus of zealotry, extremism, and terrorism – not just [the
Islam] of the terrorists and murderers, but [the Islam] of those who sympathize
with them and support them. We must admit that Islamic terrorism exists, and
that the faith needs to be purged of the ideology of exclusion and takfir. Denying this reality will not bring change, but pitch us
into total ruin."I will not [try to] anticipate the findings of the investigation of the Boston attack, because there are sufficient [examples]. Not long before the Boston attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Pakistan, murdering dozens of worshipers, including children. Another blew himself up in Iraq, causing similar devastation. Tomorrow will bring with it more of this Islamic terrorism, since Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Syria [also] have Islamic suicide bombers who act out of extremist ideological inclinations… All this is done in the name of Islam by religious Muslims who believe they are close to Paradise and want to shorten their path there.
"Considering the ease with which young boys and girls are recruited to put on suicide vests and sacrifice themselves, [do we need] to ask why? Will we [not] find the answer in the sermons and religious curricula in Southeast Asian countries, or in the words of sheikhs who encourage strife in the media or on TV channels that purport to support peace?
"The important question is, when will Islam recover from the virus of terrorism?"[5]
 |
| Dr. Muhammad Nahed Al-Kuwaiz (image: Al-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) |
Suicide Bombings – A Deviation From The Muslim Shari'a
Columnist
Muhammad bin 'Abd Al-Latif Aal Al-Sheikh attacked Islamists that support
suicide attacks, on the grounds that these acts constitute bid'a (forbidden innovation) that have no basis in Islamic
shari'a, and that the Koran explicitly forbids murder: "I do not believe
that there is another innovation that was introduced by the [Saudi] Sahwa [Awakening] movement[6] and approved by some clerics
without considering its implications... [as was done] with the innovation of
suicide bombings, which they call istishhad
(martyrdom-seeking). We must ask: If [suicide bombings] are permitted, as you
say, and the suicide bomber's sins are forgiven and he is considered a martyr,
why didn't the ancients know about them? This concept [of suicide attacks] is
not mentioned in the [texts of] Islamic jurisprudence, despite the focus of
[Islam's] early generations on jihad, and even though [the early Muslims]
yearned to die a martyr's death in permissible ways..."Those who take an objective look at the [religious] proofs presented [by the Islamists] will find that, from the start, there was an intention to permit these deadly attacks by all means. This, because they serve the Islamist movements and achieve their ends, and despite the fact that [Koranic] verses and explicit hadiths totally forbid murder..."
Later in his article, Aal Al-Sheikh rebuffed two arguments presented by Islamists to sanction suicide bombings. He concluded by mentioning some of the greatest Wahhabi clerics, who are revered by all circles in Saudi Arabia: "It only remains for me to mention [the position of] Sheikh 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn Bazz, as well as Sheikh [Muhammad Nasser Al-Din] Al-Albani and Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, and of course Sheikh Muhammad bin Uthaymin. All of them, without exception, forbade these attacks and considered the suicide bomber as one doomed to eternal hell..."[7]
Muhammad bin 'Abd Al-Latif Aal Al-Sheikh (image: 'Okaz, Saudi Arabia)
The Perpetrators Of The Boston Attacks – A Deviant Group, Regardless Of Their Sect Or Nationality
Jasser 'Abd
Al-'Aziz Al-Jasser, a columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, wrote: "No matter who perpetrated the terrorist act
in Boston and who was behind it, the public must condemn and oppose such
terrorist acts that target innocent people – regardless of [the terrorists']
citizenship and nationality…
"Everyone
was just as amazed as the Americans at the return of these irresponsible acts,
perpetrated by insane groups that lack even a shred of moral commitment or
civilized [values]… No matter what the citizenship, nationality or sect of the
terrorists, they must not be seen as belonging to that [country, sect or
nation]. They are a deviant group that has discarded normal thinking and cannot
be seen as exhibiting normal human behavior. They are a deviant group that is
hostile to humanity as a whole…"[8]
World Countries Have Benefited From Saudi Arabia's Expertise
In Combating Terrorism
The April 19,
2013 editorial of the Saudi daily Al-Madina stressed that
Saudi Arabia has done and is still doing a great deal to combat terrorism, and
that many of the world's countries have benefited from its expertise in this
domain. It added: "The entire international community was impressed with
the Saudi efforts [in combating terrorism] because [this country] has adopted a
comprehensive security strategy that emphasizes the Munasaha [project][9] and the
ideological campaign [against extremism], as well as security measures [on the
ground]. The kingdom works to combat terrorism on many levels – local, regional
and international – by tightening its security cooperation with friendly
countries and drying up the extremist groups' sources of funding and
support." As an example of the international community's appreciation of
these measures, the editorial cited U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who
said that Saudi Arabia provides the U.S. with valuable assistance in the war on
terror. In light of this, the daily added, "one must reject the attempts
of the Zionist propaganda apparatuses to accuse the kingdom of perpetrating
terrorism – [attempts that are] intended to sabotage Saudi-U.S.
relations."[10]
We Hope The Perpetrator Is Not Saudi
Badriyya
Al-Bishr, a columnist for the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat, wrote: "We have over 100,000 [students] on a
government [stipend] and thousands of others learning at their own expense [in
American universities]. Any involvement of a Saudi national in this terror
attack, God forbid, will threaten them and cause them to be placed under
surveillance… Worse, they will be viewed with hostility and will not be allowed
to renew their visas. Do our sons merit such treatment? Of course not. All
religions [hold that] 'no man is punished for the sins of another' [Koran 6,
164]. However, if one of our sons is involved in terrorism and violence we feel
responsible, as happened after 9/11. Then we were confronted with a difficult
question: What caused our sons to perpetrate this act? We sifted through
documents and books and said for the first time: extremist streams had abducted
our sons, invented enemies for them, and caused them to hate life – until they
were left with no goal but self-sacrifice that could be achieved only through
the murder of others…
"We
Muslims paid a steep price after 9/11, and today we and our sons anticipate a
new future, now that King 'Abdallah bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz has opened for [our sons]
the path of real jihad: the jihad of life and knowledge in universities that
will train them to do good for the benefit of their society, so that they
return to us as doctors, engineers and technology [experts], and so our country
becomes associated with scientific achievement rather than terror. The Boston
bombing fills us with fear, and makes us hope that the perpetrator is not
Saudi."[11]
Badriyya Al-Bishr (image: Al-Hayat, Saudi Arabia)
[1] 'Okaz (Saudi Arabia), April 18, 2013; sabq.org, April 17, 2013; Al-Hayat (London), April 19, 2013; almowaten.net, April 17, 2013.
[5] Al
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), April 18, 2013.
[6] An
Islamist movement that operated in Saudi Arabia from the 1960s and whose
influence peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. It was influenced by the Muslim
Brotherhood and was among the most dominant forces opposing the Saudi regime.
[9] A counseling
and guidance program for security prisoners established by the Saudi Interior
Ministry in 2003 with the intent of encouraging these prisoners to renounce
their extremist beliefs.
[11] Al-Hayat (London), April 17, 2013.
________________________________
Recommended Reading:
I know one other thing about the Saudis:
ReplyDelete15 of the 19 9/11 murderers were Saudi.
Thanks...I meant to add that statistic...I did just now (see post).
ReplyDeletescrew these people!
ReplyDelete