The Saudi Fifth Column On Our Nation's Campuses

Front Page Magazine ^ | April 5, 2004 | Lee Kaplan

[Mel Gibson]

From Riyadh to Ramallah to the Ivy League, Saudi Arabia’s “Wahhabi Lobby” is funding the goals of radical Islam and undermining America’s War On Terror. The press has reported the Department of Justice’s closures of Saudi “charitable” fronts like the Muslim World League, the Al-Haramain Foundation, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), and others that raised money for al-Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.1 But the government has so far ignored an even larger network of Saudi front groups working to establish the party line on our nation’s campuses. This network is embedded deep within our system of higher education, including many of our most prestigious universities. The Saudis have steadily infiltrated American educational institutions with vast infusions of cash.2 At the same time they look to steer college curricula and public opinion – especially about the Middle East – toward their Wahhabist goals.3

Saudi Wahhabism fuels a fiery hatred for the West’s religious tolerance. It views attempts by the West to promote democratic reforms within its medieval Arab monarchy as an affront to Islam. In other words, it shares the religious and political views of its wayward Saudi son Osama bin Laden. Accordingly, the Saudi royal family has been waging its own quiet jihad of disinformation to advance its goals. The Senate Judiciary Committee recently heard testimony from fellow senators and terrorism experts that the Bush administration has not recognized the dangers posed by Saudi influence. In fact, the kingdom controls most of the Muslim organizations in the United States. For instance, 80 percent of the mortgages on mosques in the U.S. are paid for by the Wahhabi Saudis.

[Mel Gibson]

Saudi-endowed chairs and departments have produced American college faculty who spout the same kind of propaganda provided to eighth graders in Saudi Arabia. At Connecticut State University, Norton Mezvinsky equated Judaism with “racism” and claimed that Jews believe “the blood of non-Jews has no intrinsic value”; therefore, the killing of non-Jews does “not constitute murder according to the Jewish religion.” Indeed, according to Mezvinsky, Judaism teaches “the killing of innocent Arabs for revenge is a Jewish virtue.” While textbooks in Saudi Arabia claim “the Zionist Jews are the enemies of Islam and supporters of the modern Crusaders,” Stanford Middle East Studies professor and former head of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Joel Beinin rails against America’s “Zionist lobby” that flexes its power “to make and unmake regimes.” The U.S. government this lobby controls is responsible for “blocking democracy and economic development in the Arab world.”27

The globalists have sowed what they reap with the "cheap oil" from the Wahhabi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This country is going to pay a horrible price for not confronting and punishing the seven financiers and bankers who financed the 9/11 terror attacks on this country.

[Wombat101]

The "Fifth Column" was already present on American campuses before the arrival of the Saudi's. They used to be called "hippies", only now they have tenure.

[shield]

bttt

[SwinneySwitch]

The Fourth Estate is our Fifth Column.

[ZULU]

Right after 9-11 an immediate stop should have been placed on this situation of permitting Islamist lackies, particularly Saudi Wahhbists, into America.

[Sabramerican]

That wouldn't work. How would Bandar Bush get to visit his "brother" in the White House?

[eleni121]

The Turkish government has been funding college campuses - propaganda mills - and public relations firms as well for years.

It has worked for them largely because colleges love money non matter what hate-filled place it comes from.

[ncountylee]

Don't fotget that Saudi Arabia’s “Wahhabi Lobby” is funding prison recruitment programs, mosque building and mosque takeovers.

[Vaquero]

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult.
Moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.


"I think there are moderate Muslims, they are even the large majority, but I do not believe there is a moderate Islam,"
Philippe de Villiers, head of the anti-immigrant Movement for France (MPF) party

[itsahoot]

I am a lot more worried about this........................

Last week, military brass — along with representatives from the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations — dedicated the first Muslim prayer center for the Marines as a symbol of the military’s “religious tolerance” and “respect” for the faith the enemy uses to attack us. Already, plans are in the works to build by 2009 a bigger mosque at the Marine base in Quantico so Muslim service members can have a “proper place” to worship, and one that “honors their religious heritage,” officials say, not realizing that the mosque can also be used by the enemy to build a Fifth Column inside the Marines.

Hmm but it’s not OK to have crosses at other military bases? Islamic symbols are acceptable? This is a double standard.

[sageb1]

Excellent article. Thanks for posting and kudos to Kaplan for gathering so many facts and putting them into one article. Is anyone in Washington listening?

[sageb1]

"This is a double standard."

It is sheer ignorance and stupidity. Using tax payer dollars to build mosques is wrong. I think it's letter-writing time.