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2006-03-24 Arabia

Islamic activism on the rise in Saudi Arabia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-24 03:10|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If young people were allowed to do anything else in Saudi Arabia, I doubt we would see much of this junk. Reading this, you truly understand how brittle this belief system is and why it reacts so violently to outside ideas.

Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-03-24 04:50|| 2006-03-24 04:50|| Front Page Top

#2 The two-hour lecture Malki gave in a noisy dining room packed mainly with women was winding down when he told the group he wanted to read them something from the Bible. He picked up his leather-bound King James version, well-thumbed with yellow bits of paper sticking out, leafed through it and started to read from the Book of Isaiah: "And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned."

Thus encouraged, some of the group will find a Bible, expecting to find other passages that confirm their faith. And once they start reading, some of them will start thinking about what they read. At which point the road to Perdition will be well and truly greased.

He also contends these ad hoc committees will supplant Western-style civic institutions. "The methodologies for setting up civic institutions here failed because they were a Western model," he said. "These indigenous movements will take root because they are based on our beliefs and real needs."

Such a parochial view of American communitarianism! Still, this is a lovely threat to the Powers That Be -- poeple who organize themselves, peacefully, over one issue, can more easily do so the next time over something else, and suddenly they don't need their natural overlords to tell them what to do and how to think.

lawyer and writer Bassem Alem says he believes that the cartoons were only a trigger within the context of an already burgeoning region-wide Islamic resurgence. People "look around and they see Islamists winning in Egypt and Palestine and Morocco," he said, referring to elections in those places. "They feel empowered, and this is just one more manifestation of that."

The only thing wrong with this picture is that what they see is the false dawn of the prematurely triumphalist -- because soon to be defeated -- expansionist Islamism. How much greater their let-down when all their mainifestations fall on their faces.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-24 16:19|| 2006-03-24 16:19|| Front Page Top

#3 International Committee for the Defense of the Final Prophet

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-24 16:48|| 2006-03-24 16:48|| Front Page Top

#4 "To show solidarity with the prophet. Now that you've enjoyed the show, please take a minute and sign your name in support of the finest of messengers, prophet Muhammad. We want the world to know how much we love our prophet and how much we're willing to sacrifice for him."

As in how many Saudi youth are willing to go KABOOM in Iraq?

Posted by Happy 88mm 2006-03-24 17:29|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2006-03-24 17:29|| Front Page Top

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