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2004-08-06 Arabia

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Posted by tipper 2004-08-06 9:55:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Worked for me.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-08-06 10:43:02 AM|| 2004-08-06 10:43:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Some Saudi security experts and Islamists nevertheless believe that the second generation insurgents are close to buckling. âThis summer will see the last of them,â says Khashoggi. âThey have not only lost a lot of people. They have lost infrastructure, their safe houses, and the weapons, explosives and cash they must have built up over years. People are no longer protecting them or taking them in.â

Against that, Saudi Arabia provides almost laboratory conditions to incubate thousands of bin Ladens and Muqrins. That is its strategic dilemma ...

Meanwhile, mosques and classrooms spew out Wahhabi fanaticism, and Saudi Arabia has for decades been exporting these ideas by endowing mosques, schools and religious foundations abroad, as well as supporting pan-Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood ...

Sheikh Saleh bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, minister of Islamic Affairs and part of the Wahhabi establishment, rejects even the term âreformâ as pregnant with liberalism and licentiousness.
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Let's do the math:

"... Saudi Arabia provides almost laboratory conditions to incubate thousands of bin Ladens and Muqrins."
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"Meanwhile, mosques and classrooms spew out Wahhabi fanaticism, and Saudi Arabia has for decades been exporting these ideas ..."
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"Sheikh Saleh bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, minister of Islamic Affairs and part of the Wahhabi establishment, rejects even the term âreformâ as pregnant with liberalism and licentiousness."
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Saudi Arabia has sown the seeds of its own (and potentially the world's) destruction. Exactly how sympathetic are outside observers, especially non-Islamics, supposed to be about this? Bodies of the entire Saudi royal family could decorate Riyadh's lamp posts and it would not be sufficient repayment for the horrors they have so cheerfully bred up during their reign.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-06 6:13:15 PM|| 2004-08-06 6:13:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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