Posted on 03/15/2002 10:22:33 AM PST by mondonico
A Disturbing Letter from a Saudi
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 15, 2002
I RECEIVED the following email from someone describing himself as a "Saudi Citizen." I have no way of knowing whether it is authentic, but its particulars seem accurate to me and I invite readers of FrontPage to comment.
--David Horowitz
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Message from a Saudi Citizen
Do not forget that radical Islam is more pervasive in the Arab world than Christianity is in the West. There is no "dissent" or "constructive engagement". The goal of Islam is to destroy anything or anyone that is not Islam. The US is responding, but your intelligence services are still sclerotic and slow. Are you paying attention America? There are two fronts on this war: one military (9/11) and one political.
Islam is colonizing the US, Europe and Asia. Bush is wrong to say that most American Muslims are anti-Terrorism. If they did not cheer in the streets on 9/11, they cheered in their homes. I was with Hussein Ibish and Hamid Faraoui that day, watching them cheering and singing, then denouncing the attacks on TV later that day. Khatami, Hussein and Assad reach out to US democrats, journalists, etc. Many Arabs loved the remarks of President Carter, joking "we may have to kill him last."
Ordinary Americans are rising to the occasion, showing patriotism, sacrificing husbands and fathers. Your coastal elites are assisting radical Islam. They want America to be tolerant of terrorism and to imagine themselves guilty of previous generations crimes. We watch your news. We know this is true. [Bill] Moyers goes as far as saying Judaism, Christianity and Islam are equally guilty of terrorism. These comments are played on Saudi TV amongst reports of Israelis eating Palestinian children. Susan Sontag and Bobby Fischer got front page billing in the Saudi press for comments supportive of the 9/11 attacks, flanked by a pair of stories detailing US racism against Muslims and the killing of Palestinian babies at Israeli hospitals. Lies, of course, but seem true next to actual comments by Americans.
It surprises us moderate Muslims to see half of American society help radical Islam kill America and the West. Your political left is justifying terrorism in the minds of the "Arab street" as you call it. They forget that Usama bin Laden has higher approval numbers in Saudi Arabia than Bush has in the US. Every bit of self doubt or anti-Americanism helps bin Laden. Every Saudi student that comes home after a US college education repeats the anti-Americanism he hears at university. "You see, they even hate themselves," is a refrain heard from many Saudi graduates of US universities.
I can't tell America what to do, but anyone can see what you are doing to yourselves.
Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Every Saudi student that comes home after a US college education repeats the anti-Americanism he hears at university. >
Lefty blowback.
That is true. However, using an anonymous E-Mail for a story is not the best source for said story. Horowitz disappoints me with this one...
FMCDH!
I did a search for "Horowitz"--I guess I should have searched for "Saudi."
Thanks for telling me...since I missed it yesterday and read it today, I'll now try to forget that I read it today, and not yesterday....sheeesh.
FMCDH
Whoever wrote it is clearly familiar with the goals of Islam in the west.
The west is being colonized by Islam and our president invites them to the White House.
They may be smiling publicly now but when their numbers reach critical mass, there will be a fight for this country.
I worry for the future of my grandchildren who are going to have to live with the problems our "open-door" immigration policy is creating.
I agree with the content, but not the medium at all...David needed to do much more research on the source before making this "news"...He's better than that, and I'm still disappointed.
FReegards,
FMCDH!
We have won the Cold War and never understood its lessons. Actually, we are too hasty and self-congratulatory on that, too: we have not won --- we merely outlived the enemy. I do not think that in this country, after the Cuban crisis, we really understood how ready the Soviets were to bring the world to an end.
We do the same thing now with the Muslim world: most people, including those that matter, do not really understand how the mind raised in disinformation works. This letter is a wonderful, very truthful description of that. I say so because it describes the workings of the mind and the propaganda methods common to the Nazis, Soviets, and the Arab world. Dictators invariably discover what works for them.
Had we truly studied the previous dictators, we would know how to deal with the current ones without loosing thousands of our citizens. But, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Happy-go-lucky celebrate the millennium instead as if there is no tomorrow.
How do you expect we become experts in how the enemy thinks, if one third of our members of congress do not even have passports?
I would make studying this letter, word by word, mandatory in both the State Department and the DoD.
What if our politicans are babbling this tolerance BS just to lull them into complacency - letting them think that there is no way we would exterminate them (all of them) after another attack? The entire world tends to underestimate us, as well as our anger over 9/11.
No, this is no tinfoil. I'm just hoping that this is really the case, and that the letter's author has fallen for the bait. (Which means that the enemy has as well.)
A Likely Fabrication
(David Horowitz, "A Disturbing Letter from a Saudi", March 15, 2002)I was the subject of the essay by Ward Park in your book, The Race Card. I am also staff counsel at FAIR. I am also a Middle East area specialist, and was working in Egypt on Sept 11.
The letter on your website strikes me as a likely fabrication. the sentiments are not uncommon among Arabs, but the style and pattern of thought do not take an Islamic approach. A Muslim, especially a Saudi raised in the Wahabi tradition, would not describe Islamic colonization in perjorative language, or as a preventable threat, but as part of an immutable theological development. The two Arab names he cites are definitely not Saudi; I presume they relate to immigrant Muslim activists in the US -- not the sort of declasse' public figures a 'moderate' Saudi would associate with. Etc.
Only an actual handful of Americans are familiar with the historical context of Islam-Western relations. A good source in English is Dr. Bat-Yeor's works on "dhimmitude". A Muslim Arab, even a self-described moderate, would see Allah's hand in the events described in the letter, and would see the events and their consequences as intrinsically morally good -- not merely a justifable act of revenge.
The culture war with Islam certainly exists. But the analysis used by almost all commentators, including social conservative analysts,is of limited value for formulating policy and countermeasures, because it is entirely useless as a predictive tool.
M. Hethmon (mmhlaw@prodigy.net)
Washington DC
3/16/02
Horowitz responds:
I am now convinced the letter is a fabrication. I also think it grossly misrepresented Hussein Ibish. I am posting an apology and retraction in the next issue of frontpage.
While this exchange seems to undercut the letter's authenticity pretty seriously, it also seems to confirm the truth of the underlying sentiments.
As a nation, and as a people, we need to deal with Islamists as they really are.
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