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I’ve posted recently about the Freedom House Report, showing that publications distributed in Saudi Mosques on U.S. soil preach things like this:
The tracts [a mosque visitor named Ahmed] opens are in the voice of a senior religious authority. They tell him that America, his adoptive home, is the Abode of the Infidel, the Christian and the Jew. He reads:
Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.
The advice is emphatic:
There is consensus on this matter, that whoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is an unbeliever himself.
This wouldn’t be so serious if the preferred method of the Saudis for pursuing their religious objectives was something other than killing civilians.
As he reads this warning, Ahmed thinks back to the U.S. governments request to the American Muslim community for their voluntary cooperation in the fight against terrorism and he is afraid. He knows that the tracts author views such officials as unbelievers, so that, if he helped them, he would be an unbeliever himself, a renegade, an apostate from Islam who should therefore be put to death. He begins to worry too about his cousin, an American citizen who recently enlisted in the U.S. military.
This is like having the Mafia in big public buildings where they recruit people and tell them to kill those who oppose them.
The books give him detailed instructions on how to build a wall of resentment between himself and the infidel: Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel.
Ahmed looks carefully at the books cover. It says Greetings from the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C. The book is published by the government of Saudi Arabia.
Greetings from sunny Saudi Arabia! And by the way, kill the infidel.
...In another book he reads that, if relations between Muslims and non-Muslims were harmonious, there would be no loyalty and enmity, no more jihad and fighting to raise Allahs work on earth.
Right, no more fighting, and think how much that would suck. I guess ending war is not high on their priority list. I mean, if the Saudis got clobbered a couple of times they’d probably cut this stuff out. They’re sitting there in their little kingdom, talking about how great war is, as waged via the killing of civilians in other countries. And now they’re preaching that stuff to Muslims on our shores? Really, this has got to go.
...As for a Muslim who fails to uphold Wahhabi sexual mores through homosexual activity or heterosexual activity outside of marriage, the edicts found in American mosques advise, it would be lawful for Muslims to spill his blood and to take his money. Sufi and Shiite Muslims are also viciously condemned. Regarding those who convert out of Islam, it is explicitly asserted, they should be killed.
I like how they throw in the “and take his money” part. Just as a little added incentive. You know, civilized nations have worked hard to build societies in which people are taught to not kill people and take their money. This kind of underlines how Islamofascism is a throwback to the way the world was many centuries ago.
One insidious aspect of this propaganda is its aim to replace traditional and moderate interpretations of Islam with Wahhabi extremism. Wahhabism began only 250 years ago with the movement created by fanatical preacher Muhammad Ibn Abd alWahhab. Once a fringe sect in a remote part of the Arabian peninsula, Wahhabi extremism has been given global reach through Saudi government sponsorship and money, particularly over the past quarter century as it has competed with Iran in spreading its version of the faith.
Okay, so as Daniel Pipes says, “militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution”.
Residing among the unbelievers continuously is also forbidden because it is dangerous for the belief of the Muslim. That is why Allah made it obligatory to emigrate from the land of disbelief to the land of Islam. It also threatened those who, without having a legal excuse, do not emigrate. The Koran also forbade the Muslim to travel to the land of disbelief except with a legal excuse, and the ability to practice his religion freely. When his business in that land is done, he must go back to the land of Islam.
That’s interesting. So except for the sleeper cells, they’re all supposed to go home eventually. So we could just cut back on immigration to America from countries that support terrorism, and eventually many of them would leave.
Recent converts with limited experience of Islam can be particularly susceptible to the Saudi publications toxic message. Adam Gadahn, thought to be the American jihadi who appeared in a mask on a videotape just before the 2004 elections threatening that Americas street would run with blood, had converted to Islam and became radicalized after spending hours studying Islam with seven or eight other young men at the Islamic Society of Orange County in California, the mosque chairman is quoted telling the Washington Post.
Want to write a letter to your Congresspeople to put pressure on the Saudis about this? I provide a sample letter and links to sites that give you the email addresses of your Congresspeople, here.
Orson Scott Card has additional suggestions for dealing with this, which I’ve posted about here.
A pdf of the complete Freedom House report is here.
(Hat Tip to Stephen .)
