Instead, we go after SECULAR Saddam, and look how that turned out.
Posted on 06/05/2006 9:03:15 AM PDT by IrishMike
A primary breeding ground for Islamic terrorism is the 1,359 mosques that Saudi Arabia has established, at an average cost of $160,000 each, throughout the world over the past few decades. In the West, where costs are higher, millions of dollars were spent on individual "Islamic Centers." Since the 1970s, Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars to spread their form of conservative Islam (Wahabbism). Most of this effort was directed as countries that already had a majority Moslem population. There, the Wahabbi clerics often ran into problems with other Islamic sects, which Wahabbis consider, to various degrees, heretical. That, of course, was nothing compared to the Wahabbi attitude towards non-Moslems (infidels). One thing the Saudis learned early on was to not say the same things to infidels that they said to fellow Moslems. Thus English language messages from Wahabbis, about what they are doing with all this missionary work, stress the need to unify the Islamic community, and improve religious education. But the messages to the people using all those mosques are very different. Here there is much talk of hatred for the infidels, and the need to fight, and destroy these enemies of Islam. With this in mind, it's less surprising that so many Islamic terrorists have some connection with these mosques.
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Over the last few years, especially since al Qaeda began setting off bombs in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis, and the Islamic Charities they work with, have urged the clerics in the subsidized mosques to cool it with the pro- terrorist talk. Saudi Arabia refuses to cut off the financial support, insisting, with some degree of accuracy, that most of what the mosques do is positive. Most of the mosques also provide social services to immigrants. But some of those migrants are enthusiastic supporters of Islamic terrorism. ................................................ Meanwhile, there have been few successful Islamic terror attacks in Europe. There aren't many arrests of terrorists planning attacks either. The idea that battle hardened Islamic terrorists are coming back from Iraq is another myth. Few European Moslems have gone off to be holy warriors in Iraq, and most who did, died there. Most of those who returned, came back disillusioned.
Wahabbism is terrorism and belongs on the banned organization list with all assets seized.
I was a little alarmed when I was in Houston a couple of weeks ago to see that the Muslims have bought a big old courthouse downtown and it now bears a sign proclaiming it the "Islamic Dawa Center." Dawa means conversion.
The infestation in Houston is severe. There are several mosques just blocks from my house!
"Wahabbism is terrorism and belongs on the banned organization list with all assets seized."
That'd be Islam in general, not just that particular strain.
I didn't know that. My taxi driver was from the ME, but he was a Christian and we talked about our churches. On the other hand, I attended a terrorism trial (as a spectator - I am a legal translator and we were touring the courts) and saw a Bangladeshi plead guilty to an elaborate money laundering scheme that involved a deal to buy a convenience store with a fraudulent loan and send the excess to an Islamic group abroad. He was working with a foreign national named "Mohammed Islam," who was also involved in supplying money as part of the fraud.
I will say that I didn't think he was a willing participant, and I am sure that, because Islam is sort of like going to the First Church of the Mafia, many ME citizens are coerced into taking part in these activities. But I also noted that somebody had paid for him to have what a local told me was the most expensive criminal lawyer in Houston.
Instead, we go after SECULAR Saddam, and look how that turned out.
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