http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wahhabism/ en-us Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:11:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381062/posts The Times also delivers their own absurd 'blame the victims' perspective: Mr. Obama has made it a goal of his presidency to repair relations with Muslims around the world; in a major speech in Cairo this year, he called for a “new beginning” with the Muslim world. The shootings at Fort Hood, however, pose a different problem for the president, by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims feel inside the United States. Pardon me? This incident spotlighted the tensions felt by Muslims in the US? Please - if investigators had discovered that Hasan had recorded a Glenn Beck segment... justoneminute.typepad.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381062/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:11:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364028/posts Tenured Radical Goes Global Malcolm A. Kline, October 16, 2009 A professor whom Accuracy in Academia has covered extensively is getting ready to take his act on the road. “Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, produces a steady stream of writings that downplays the threat radical Islam poses to America and the West,” Jonathan Schanzer writes in The American Thinker. “His opinions are at odds with the beliefs of most Americans.” “Now, through a project designed to foster an understanding of America in the Arab world, he appears to be at... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364028/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:47:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358047/posts In an authoritative essay published in The Wall Street Journal, Abdurrahman Wahid, the first president of newly democratic Indonesia from 1999 to 2001, described what constitutes "right Islam" as distinct from "wrong Islam." He warned people of good will to recognize that "a terrible danger threatens humanity." This peril, Wahid wrote, emanates from an "extreme and perverse ideology in the minds of fanatics," specifically "Wahhabi/Salafist ideology -- a minority fundamentalist religious cult fueled by [Saudi] petrodollars." The importance of this essay, and the warning in it, comes from the prestige of the author. Abdurrahman Wahid is an Islamic scholar who... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358047/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:15:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234854/posts The New America Foundation and the Committee for International Trade cordially invite you to a major national policy forum US-SAUDI RELATIONS IN A WORLD WITHOUT EQUILIBRIUM Monday, 27 April 2009 The Four Seasons Hotel 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 8:00 am Registration & Coffee 8:45 am Welcoming Remarks 9:00 am A Forward Projection of What the Saudi-US Relationship Should Look Like and Needs to Achieve The Honorable Chuck Hagel Former United States Senator Distinguished Professor in the Practice of National Governance, Georgetown University Chairman, Atlantic Council of the United States His Excellency HRH Turki Al-Faisal Chairman, King Faisal Center... New America Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234854/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217214/posts Shortly before noon on September 12, 2001, a visitor stopped by the palace, looking for Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz al-Saud, the Crown Prince. The man who now sits on the throne of Saudi Arabia was kneeling in shock and prayer. He had prayed there all night and had received news from Washington, but could still not believe that the hijackers who crashed their planes into New York and Washington were his countrymen. That experience is credited widely as part of the impetus behind King Abdullah’s attempts to reform his reactionary kingdom. But Saudi Arabia remains as he did... Timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217214/posts#comment Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2214235/posts Video about news story below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61mGcq1y96o Saudi Cleric want women banned from TV, Media http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hUoscqVn5bCHjZ5QLQN1mt-jaKAw Share your thoughts on this idea. Should we ban women from the media to protect men from impure thoughts? Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2214235/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:11:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096589/posts Please, forgive me for presenting this article with my highlights. (I could highlight everything actually). I knew I like Michael Totten, but in this article he exceeded my high expectations. Follow the link to the original to bypass my highlights. Senator Barack Obama said something at the presidential debate last week that almost perfectly encapsulates the difference between his foreign policy and his opponent’s: “Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself acknowledges the war on terrorism started in Afghanistan and it needs to end there.” I don’t know if Obama paraphrased Gates correctly, but if so, they’re both wrong.If Afghanistan were... Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096589/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:40:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056625/posts More than a dozen Christians in Saudi Arabia who were accused by government officials of worshipping in their homes have been ordered deported. According to a report from International Christian Concern, the Christians will be expelled tomorrow for one specific home worship service in Taif in April. WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056625/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 03:52:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026058/posts THE revelations over the past week that Griffith University aggressively pursued funds from the Saudi Arabian embassy to finance its Islamic studies unit illustrates a major problem facing all liberal democracies confronted with the vast reservoir of petro-dollars controlled by the Saudi Government. "Saudi Arabia today remains the location where more money is going to terrorism, to Sunni terror groups and to the Taliban than any other place in the world," according to testimony given by Stuart Levey, the head of the US Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, at a US congressional hearing on April 1, 2008. This... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026058/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:30:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975661/posts History has been a harsh critic of Neville Chamberlain's decision in 1938 to allow Adolf Hitler to trash the WWI Versailles peace treaty to seize control of and change the borders Europe, first France in the Rhineland, then Czechoslovakia and Poland. President George W. Bush's quick acceptance of the efforts of the Albanians in Kosovo to change the borders of Serbia will also be viewed in history as an appeasement that did not work. World War II actually began when Adolf Hitler marched a mere 14,500 troops into the Rhineland on March 7, 1936, in violation of the Treaty of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975661/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:50:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848492/posts BELGRADE – Serbs will never forgive the United States if it helps ensure Kosovo's Albanians win independence for the Serbian province, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said on Monday. In a bitter response to President George W. Bush's promise to Albanians that Kosovo would soon be independent, Kostunica said Serbia was 'justifiably disgusted' by U.S. policy, the official Serbian news agency Tanjug reported. The row over Kosovo's future deepened as the province marked the eve of the 8th anniversary of the June 12 deployment of 60,000 NATO troops who entered the territory from Macedonia as Serb forces withdrew to the north.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848492/posts#comment Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:18:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978888/posts Radical Islam Is Growing in the US: Where’s the American Anger? by Thomas D. Segel It is very difficult to understand why Americans are not enraged at the thought of any radical Islamic movement, particularly in the United States. But, being unconcerned seems to be an understatement, for Islam is rapidly expanding in this country and there is already evidence that from evening prayer to the teachings of Islamic schools the tone is anti-American and anti-Christian. We have already seen the growth of the Muslim faith in Europe. Even in England there are already calls for the country to adopt... New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978888/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:22:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977410/posts Restitution of Serbian Orthodox Church Property in Kosovo-Metohia ProvinceSerbian Orthodox Church is the legal owner of 5,300 hectares of land in Kosovo province. The word Metohia, an integral part of the name of southern Serbian province, is derived from the Greek word "metoch", denoting the land owned by the Church. Photo: Pec Patriarchate built in 1260, the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church, Kosovo-Metohia, Serbia. Raska and Prizren Diocese (encompassing Raska region and the province of Kosovo and Metohia) of the Serbian Orthodox Church will soon receive a decision stating the return of 5,300 hectares of land (13,097 acres) that was... Byzantine Sacred Art http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977410/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:45:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970332/posts Saudi Arabia to execute woman for 'witchcraft'  Thursday, February 14, 2008 A leading international human rights organisation is calling on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to halt the planned execution of a woman accused of "witchcraft". The woman is due to be put to death on foot of a coerced confession and the statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them. One man claimed she had made him impotent. In another case, a divorced woman reportedly returned to her ex-husband during the month predicted by the witch said to have cast the spell. The court failed to probe alternative explanations... The Belfast Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970332/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:14:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934785/posts Who Are These Wahhabis, and What Do They Want? By Alan Moretti According to Tom Carter, Wahhabism is a puritanical form of Islam that teaches intolerance of anyone who does not conform to its worldview, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steal, but they cannot dent the steel of Americans resolve. America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining”. — President George W.... Intellectual Conservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934785/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:43:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930200/posts Thomas Lippman Washington Post November 25. 2007 The subtitle of Yaroslav Trofimov's fascinating and important book about the 1979 takeover of the Great Mosque in Mecca by heavily armed fanatics refers to that event as "the forgotten uprising." Perhaps it has been forgotten here but not in the Muslim Middle East, where it was a seminal event of the region's most traumatic year in modern times. That year began with the Iranian revolution and ended with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In between, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel, radicalizing the Palestinians. Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq. And... Concord Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930200/posts#comment Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:12:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925860/posts The United States has largely eliminated the infrastructure and operational leadership of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network over the past five years. However, its ideological offspring continue to proliferate across the globe. American efforts to combat this contagion are hamstrung by the fact that its ideological and financial epicenter is Saudi Arabia, where an ostensibly pro-Western royal family governs through a centuries-old alliance with the fanatical Wahhabi Islamic sect. In addition to indoctrinating its own citizens with this extremist creed, the Saudi government has lavishly financed the propagation of Wahhabism throughout the world, sweeping away moderate interpretations of Islam... Global Politician http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925860/posts#comment Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:38:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918944/posts According to Tom Carter, Wahhabism is a puritanical form of Islam that teaches intolerance of anyone who does not conform to its worldview, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steal, but they cannot dent the steel of Americans resolve. America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining”. — President George W. Bush It was reported on June 27, 2003 that al- Qaeda’s second... Intellectual Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918944/posts#comment Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:04:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911048/posts Peter Robinson, a Reagan speechwriter in the last years of the Cold War, posed an interesting question the other day. He noted that on Feb. 22, 1946, a mere six months after the end of World War II, George Kennan, a U.S. diplomat in Moscow, sent his famous 5,000-word telegram that laid out the stakes of the Cold War and the nature of the enemy, and that that "Long Telegram" in essence shaped the way America thought about the conflict all the way up to the fall of the Berlin Wall four decades later. And what Mr. Robinson wondered was... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911048/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:36:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911055/posts So many of the administration's present problems derive from squeamishness about ideological confrontation that any effective Long Telegram would have to address. When President Bush declared a "war on terror," cynics understood that he had no particular interest in the IRA or the Tamil Tigers, but that he was constrained from identifying the real enemy in any meaningful sense: In the fall of 2001, a war on Islamic this or Islamic that would have caused too many problems with Gen. Musharraf and the House of Saud and other chaps he wanted to keep on side. But it's one reason, for... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911055/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883392/posts RIYADH (Reuters) - Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment. The Agriculture Ministry has said 232 camels died in the space of four days in the Dawasir Valley, 400 km (250 miles) south of Riyadh. King Abdullah has promised compensation for owners, who say the real number of deaths is far higher. Agriculture ministry officials have denied an infectious disease caused the deaths and blamed them on animal feed supplied by food storage authorities. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883392/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:51:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877001/posts There is an insidious program featuring a white-washed, and thus untrue, version of Islam that has permeated our educational institutions, beginning in kindergarten, winding its way through the 12th grade, and into our universities. In circuitously slick ways, the Saudi government has managed to insinuate its own version of Middle Eastern culture and history, and strictly positive views of Islam, upon millions of American students thus indoctrinating them to a biased, pro-Islamic position when the full truth is far more complex and, not surprisingly, not quite as glowingly favorable. Journalist Stanley Kurtz has explored the depth of this interference and... FamilySecurityMatters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877001/posts#comment Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871891/posts July 26, 2007 Fight to save teenage maid from beheading Jeremy Page in Delhi When Rizana Nafeek left her war-torn village in Sri Lanka two years ago, aged 17, she hoped to find a new life of peace and prosperity working as a maid in Saudi Arabia. Instead, she is on death row, facing possible decapitation in the next few months for allegedly strangling the baby son of her Saudi employers. Executions are commonplace in Saudi Arabia: there have been 109 so far this year, including four Sri Lankans who were beheaded for armed robbery. But Nafeek’s tender age, summary... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871891/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:03:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866370/posts The Sunnis of Anbar, both sheikhs and ordinary folk, deeply resent the attempted imposition of an extreme Sunni order on them and are prepared to conciliate with Iraqi Shias and cooperate with the U.S.-led coalition to prevent it from happening. So why pull out now? Why do Westerners remain so reticent about Wahhabism and its Saudi backers? TCS Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866370/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:38:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866343/posts BAGHDAD — "Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. military officer and Iraqi lawmakers." "About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military figures made available to The Times by the senior officer. Nearly half of the... L.A. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866343/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:22:50 GMT