When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

30 January 2005

A gesture of goodwill from our dear friends in Saudi Arabia

The Center for Religious Freedom, a division of the invaluable Freedom House, has just issued a lengthy, exhaustively researched and well-documented new report (PDF format; free Adobe Reader required) documenting the dissemination of Saudi government-sponsored hate literature in America.

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...

  • Sufi and Shiite Muslims are viciously condemned...

  • For a Muslim who fails to uphold the Saudi Wahhabi sect’s sexual mores (i.e. through homosexual activity or heterosexual activity outside of marriage), the edicts published by the Saudi government’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and found in American mosques advise, “it would be lawful for Muslims to spill his blood and to take his money”...

  • Regarding those who convert out of Islam, the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs explicitly asserts, they “should be killed”...

  • Saudi textbooks and other publications in the collection, propagate a Nazi-like hatred for Jews, treat the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historical fact, and avow that the Muslim’s duty is to eliminate the state of Israel...

  • Regarding women, the Saudi publications instruct that they should be veiled, segregated from men and barred from certain employment and roles.
Wow, I'm sure glad that we have such wonderful allies in the Middle East.

With friends like these...

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