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"20 Face Lash for Dancing in Saudi Arabia:"
Saudi Court Orders Lashing, Jail for 20 Foreigners for Drinking and Dancing at Mixed Party
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Feb 4, 2007 (AP)— A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.
Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.
That's right -- Saudi Arabia has "religious police" who arrest you for breaking Sharia law. Isn't it great that the Saudis are financing so many schools here in the U.S., teaching Muslim kids about Sharia law?
From Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer's web site:
At Judiciary Hearing, Schumer details how top officials in the Saudi government help finance schools and mosques in the US and Middle East that spread militant teachings
From Reza F. Safa, author of "Inside Islam:"
Of the more than 1,200 mosques in America, more than 80 percent have been built within the last 20 years - thanks in large part to Saudi money, according to Reza F. Safa, author of "Inside Islam."
"Saudi Arabia alone has spent $87 billion since 1973 to spread Islam throughout the United States and the Western hemisphere," Safa said.
From the 60+ Congressional sponsors and co-sponsors who introduced H.R. 2037: Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2005:
To halt Saudi support for institutions that fund, train, incite, encourage, or in any other way aid and abet terrorism, and to secure full Saudi cooperation in the investigation of terrorist incidents, and for other purposes.
...(5) A report released on January 28, 2005 by Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom found that Saudi Arabia is the state most responsible for the propagation of material promoting hatred, intolerance, and violence within United States mosques and Islamic centers, and that these publications are often official publications of a Saudi ministry or distributed by the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C.
From counterterrorism expert Harvey Kushner, author of "Holy War on the The Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States:"
In 1997, there were over a hundred Islamic day schools and more than a thousand Sunday or weekend schools in the United States, many of them affiliated with mosques, all expanding the reach of Wahhabi doctrine.
For years, mainstream America wasn't watching what was taught in Islamic religious schools, but 9/11 put these learning institutions in the spotlight. The USA Patriot Act allowed the government to look into mosques for the first time. What investigators found was very disturbing. The Saudis, either directly or through intermediary groups such as the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), are pouring "truckloads" of money into American mosques and schools, New York Senator Charles Schumer told a congressional subcommittee." In exchange, they demand that these mosques and schools toe the Wahhabi line. Saudi textbooks that preach violence against infidels can be found in some American Muslim schools."In February 2003, the American Jewish Committee and the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace released an analysis of ninety-three textbooks published by the Saudi Ministry of Education and used between 1999 and 2002. The books, American Jewish Committee Executive Director David A. Harris told a congressional committee, "reveal a widespread presence of contempt towards Western civilization and followers of other religions.
According to the study the teachings include:
- Islam is the only true religion.
- Saudi Arabia is the leader of the Muslim world.
- Christians and Jews are infidels.
- The West is a "decaying society" and the source of Muslim misfortunes.
- There can be no peace between Muslims and non-Muslims.
- Jews are wicked
- Israel does not exist on world maps.
...It is of little comfort that, in defense of the books, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal told CBS's 60 Minutes that "85 percent of what was being taught in the schools was not hateful."
Oh, only 15 percent of what is being taught in Islamic day schools in the U.S. is hateful, per the Saudi Foreign Minister. What a great relief that is.
