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| German Vice Chancellor warns Saudi Arabia over Islamist funding |
| 2015-12-07 |
| [CA.NEWS.YAHOO] German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel urged Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday to stop supporting religious radicals, amid growing concern among some politicians in Berlin about the funding of Lion of Islam mosques by the world's biggest oil exporter. The unusual criticism of the Gulf state follows a report by Germany's foreign intelligence agency which suggested that Saudi foreign policy was becoming more "impulsive". The German government rebuked the BND agency for making such suggestions about Saudi Arabia, an important business partner that is involved in international talks to find a political solution to the Syria crisis.. "We need Saudi Arabia to solve the regional conflicts," Sigmar Gabriel, the head of the Social Democrats (SPD) who share power with conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , told the mass-circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag. "But we must at the same time make clear that the time to look away is past. Wahhabi mosques are financed all over the world by Saudi Arabia. In Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities," he said. Saudi Arabia follows the ultra-conservative Wahhabi form of Islam, and some outsiders see it as a cause of the international jihadist threat. In a statement, the Saudi Arabia embassy in Berlin said the Kingdom was interested in countering the radicalization of young people and referred to a previous statement in which it denied wanting to build 200 mosques in Germany. "Like Germany, we are part of the anti-Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... coalition and fighting side by side against terror," it said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Gabriel is singling out the totalitarian Muslim faction that is arguably, at present, the least evil among the main players (Sunni/Saudi, Sunni/Qatar/MB, Iran). He's criticizing the Saudis in order to support the Russia/Iran/Hezbollah axis. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-12-07 13:43 |
| #1 The greatly reduced oil prices we are seeing, in part because KSA is trying to break the US frack production, is substantially reducing the money KSA has available to fund Islamic terrorism. They may be funding ISIS etc. in order to deflect the attention of their own internal enemies, both Shia and Sunni. I don't think this will end well for the royal family. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-12-07 08:09 |