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Jews and Christians: Apes and Pigs?
By David Twersky
The New York Sun | December 31, 2002
Following a lesson on the monotheistic faiths, Saudi Arabian
schoolchildren are asked to discuss "With what types of weapons
should Muslims arm themselves against the Jews?" That question is
part of an official textbook for 8th grade students which also
emphasizes that "Jews and Christians were cursed by Allah and turned
into apes and pigs," and that "The hour [the Day of Judgment] will
not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them."
The content of the Saudi school curriculum has been the focus of
mounting scrutiny ever since it was disclosed that 15 of the 19
terrorists who hijacked the four airplanes on September 11, 2001 were
Saudi citizens.
Saudi officials insist their nation cannot be blamed for having
produced an overwhelming majority of the September 11 perpetrators
and for the consequences of promoting a radical version of Islam all
over the globe.
But a starkly different view emerges from a preliminary report on
Saudi schoolbooks released by the Washington, D.C.,-based Middle East
Media Research Institute, which specializes in providing translations
of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media.
In the aftermath of 9/11, attention is being drawn to the global
reach of the SAUDI continued from page 1
Saudi educational effort aimed at promoting its particular version of
Islam.
The report cites a book published in 1995 by the Saudi Cultural
Mission, "Education in Saudi Arabia," which explains that Saudi
education policy is based on the uncompromising and anti-modern
fundamentalist teachings of the 18th century Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abd
Al-Wahhab.
According to the MEMRI report, the March 1, 2002, edition of Ayn-Al-
Yaqeen, a weekly news magazine published online by the Saudi royal
family, the Kingdom has committed "many billions of Saudi riyals" to
building schools around the world. The article claims "some 210
Islamic centers wholly or partly financed by Saudi Arabia, more than
1,500 mosques and 202 colleges and almost 2,000 schools for educating
Muslim children in non-Islamic countries in Europe, North and South
America, Australia, and Asia."
A document published by the Saudi Higher Committee for Educational
Policy contains 236 principles that exhort students to "promote
loyalty to Islam by denouncing any system or theory that conflicts
with Islamic law." Students are also taught "to plant and spread
Islam throughout the world," and "to fight spiritually and physically
for the sake of Allah."
>From an early age, schoolchildren are taught about "Jihad for the
sake of Allah." A textbook for 8th graders instructs students that
according to the prophet Muhammad, "Jihad for the sake of Allah"
ranks third as a "labor�most favored by Allah" following "Prayers on
time," and "love thy parents."
MEMRI reports that "the textbook interprets the conversation between
the prophet and his companion as follows: the most important activity
is Jihad for the sake of Allah and the convocation of Allah's
religion on this earth."
By ninth grade, students are ready for "The Promise of the Stone and
the Tree" � the story of Abu Hurayra, one of the prophet's companions
who quoted the prophet as saying: "The hour [the Day of Judgment]
will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. A Jew
will [then] hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will
call upon the Muslim: `O Muslim, O slave of Allah! There is a Jew
behind me, come and kill him!' � except for the gharqad tree, for it
is one of the trees of the Jews."
Since September 11, Saudi officials are increasingly sensitive to
criticism of their culture and educational system. In an October 21,
interview, Adel al-Jubeir, foreign policy advisor to Saudi Arabia's
Crown Prince Adbullah, argued that blaming the Saudi education system
for producing 15 of the September 11 hijackers was the equivalent of
faulting Harvard for having instructed "the Unabomber."
Mr. al-Jubeir also said Islamic terrorists no more belong to the
Saudi mainstream than "Timothy McVeigh represents America."
But in Saudi Arabia, speaking in Arabic, leaders appear to be more
supportive, and unashamed of the status quo. One religious leader,
Sheikh Majed Abd Al-Rahman Al-Firian, told worshippers at Riyadh's
Suleiman Bin Muqiran mosque: "Muslims must... educate their children
to Jihad. This is the greatest benefit of the situation: educating
the children to Jihad and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and
the infidels; educating the children to Jihad and to revival of the
embers of Jihad in their souls. This is what is needed now..."
Still, the cognitive dissonance between their insular system and the
wave of post September 11 criticism has led to a defensive attitude.
Officials regularly blame problems in the Saudi-America relationship
on American Jews. And the Minister of the Interior, Prince Naif Ibn
Abd Al-Aziz, blames the September 11 attacks on Israel.
In an interview in the Saudi-owned London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat,
Mr. Al-Aziz asked, and answered, his own question. "We put big
question marks and ask who committed the events of September 11 and
who benefited from them. Who benefited from events of 11/9? I think
they [the Zionists] are behind these events.'"
Mr. Naif also stressed that Saudi ties to the American government
were "strong" notwithstanding the best efforts of "the Zionist-
controlled media that manipulated the events of September 11 and
turned the U.S. public opinion against Arabs and Islam."
Mr. Naif further said, "I cannot still believe that 19 youths,
including 15 Saudis, carried out the September 11 attacks with the
support of bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization. It's impossible.
I will not believe that these people have the power to do so
horrendous an attack."
The interior minister also made clear that the Kingdom's 50,000 plus
religious leaders at mosques throughout the country toe the official
line. "If they deviate from this line and persist doing so, they will
have to find other jobs."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5269
The Wahhabi Fifth Column
By Susan Katz Keating
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 30, 2002
The latest public relations missive from Riyadh complains bitterly
that alarmist Americans "have gotten out of control" with accusations
that Saudi Arabia supports terrorism. But there is good reason to
state the opposite: That we ignore to our peril the degree to which
the Saudis spread extremist anti-Americanism. It is particularly
unsettling that the Saudis stoke such sentiments here, in our own
country. They do this by funding American outposts of the intolerant,
militant Wahhabi form of Islam.
The Saudis have poured an astonishing sum of money into this effort.
Reza F. Safa, author of Inside Islam, estimated that since 1973, the
Saudi government has spent some $87 billion to promote Wahhabism in
the United States and the Western Hemisphere.
In some ways, such largesse is to be expected from the Al-Saud. This
old bellicose tribe - the only ruling family in the world with the
audacity to name a country after itself - owes much to Wahhabism.
The Saudi regime first came to power via an 18th century alliance
between two Muhammads: ibn Saud and ibn al Wahhab. Together, the Al-
Saud and the Wahhabis commanded armies that vanquished Arabia. They
pledged to form a nation based on the principles of Islam. In 1932,
an Al-Saud warlord, Abdul Aziz, fulfilled his ancestor's dream; he
declared himself sovereign of his own newly conquered territories,
which he named the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abdul Aziz adopted the
Islamic holy book, the Koran, as his nation's constitution.
To this day, the official constitution of Saudi Arabia remains the
Koran. Saudi officials affirm that their government functions "in
total adherence to the Islamic religion."
This might be little more than a political curiosity if not for two
factors. First, that a geological twist of fate gave Saudi Arabia
considerable prominence in world economic affairs. Secondly - and
significantly - Islam is not content to coexist peacefully with other
faiths or systems of government.
Says Bernard Lewis, widely recognized as the foremost Western scholar
on Islam: "In time, in the Muslim view, all mankind will accept Islam
or submit to Islamic rule."
Hence, while Saudi contributions toward American Islam are not
surprising, they are deeply worrisome.
Of that $87 billion religious propaganda budget, the Saudis have
allocated considerable line-item space toward institutions that mold
minds in the model of Wahhabism.
The most malleable minds belong to children. An estimated 30,000 of
them attend Saudi-funded Wahhabi day schools.
In America, parochial schools have long been noted for their high
educational standards. But Wahhabi schools do not emulate other
American church-based nativities of faith and knowledge; nor do they
follow the American model of rigorous intellectual inquiry.
The Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Northern Virginia forthrightly
states that even though it exists on U.S. soil, it is "subject to the
government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
Students at ISA are not required to study U.S. history or government.
They do, however, receive instruction in Wahhabism.
Outsiders are not permitted to observe Wahhabism lessons or any
other classes at ISA. But early this year, students at the academy
told two Washington Post reporters some of the things they learn at
school. Among other things, students discover the intricacies of
Judgment Day.
One event on that formidable day will be that Muslims will fight and
kill Jews. The cowardly Jews will seek refuge behind trees. Much like
the trees in the forest scene from the Wizard of Oz, these trees will
become animated and aggressive. They will call out to the
righteous: "Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind
me. Come here and kill him."
Students also said they are taught "it is better to shun and even to
dislike Christians, Jews and Shiite Muslims." Furthermore, students
learn, it is okay to hurt or steal from a non-Muslim.
The Saudi-supplied textbooks at this and other Wahhabi schools state
that Muslims are obliged to consider all infidels the enemy. Certain
enemies are not even acknowledged in geography class. Wahhabi schools
in America are notorious for doctoring maps of the Middle East, and
hanging them in classrooms - with Israel blotted out.
Such is the curriculum of education-minded Saudis.
And what of the Saudis' contributions toward American mosques?
According to Safa, the Saudis have funded more than 80 percent of the
mosques built in the United States within the last 20 years. The
newcomers do not embrace the American religious community's spirit of
inter-faith cooperation. They are distinctly isolationist. This
attitude came to light as early as the 1990's, when Wahhabi mosques
in America refused to accept help from local churches wanting to
donate food to Bosnian Muslims. Apparently Wahhabis will not work
with infidels, even if the purpose is to help other Muslims.
The Saudis, meanwhile, have directed considerable outreach toward the
American Black Muslim community.
In one effort to showcase the bounties of Wahhabism to this target
audience, the Saudis' enfeebled King Fahd pledged as much as $8
million for a lavish mosque in shabby South Central Los Angeles. The
Saudis' Islamic Development Bank pledged an additional $295,000 for a
school attached to the mosque.
>From the Saudi perspective, this and other similar contributions are
less an expense than an investment. According to Safa, as much as 90
percent of American converts to Islam are black. According to some
estimates, if the conversion rate continues, Islam could emerge as a
dominant religion among urban blacks.
This is a trend worth watching. Many of America's black Muslims have
harshly criticized America, and have deemed it an "immoral society."
Increasingly, black Muslims oppose U.S. foreign policy in the Middle
East, and are adopting a Saudi-influenced view of Arab-Israeli
relations.
Other Wahhabis in the U.S. advocate a Saudi-style approach to
American government. Insightful Saudi-watcher Daniel Pipes reports
that significant elements within American Islam seek to replace our
Constitution with the Koran. A ludicrous fantasy, to be sure; but one
that offers a glimpse of Wahhabi dreams for America.
Far more troubling is the ease with which the Wahhabis use religion
as a means to express and stoke violent impulses. Indeed, in the days
leading up to Christmas, the Wahhabi on-line magazine Al-Islam
published this religious passage from the Koran: Against them make
ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of
war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies�. A
particularly resonant selection, given the events of September 2001.
In the aftermath of those appalling attacks, Federal officials formed
Operation Green Quest, aimed at tracing the money trail to Islamic
terrorism. In the course of their investigation, agents raided more
than a dozen Saudi-funded organizations, such as the Graduate School
of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Virginia.
Investigators are still working to unravel the complicated network of
financial ties between the various organizations and their charities.
One targeted group, the SAAR Foundation, had links to the Muslim
Brotherhood, which is being investigated by European and Middle
Eastern governments for ties to terrorist organizations, including
the Palestinian Hamas. Among its many other activities, SAAR, which
is now officially disbanded, helped fund a Tampa, Florida-based group
suspected of having ties to the terrorist Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
"It's like peeling an onion," said an intelligence officer familiar
with Operation Green Quest. "There's always another layer."
The organizations and their Saudi enablers proclaim both innocence
and ignorance. "To hear them tell it," the intelligence officer
says, "they're just a bunch of well-meaning religious folks."
As in the days of old, though, when the two Mohammads acquired
territory and power via jihad, Wahhabis are as much about politics as
they are about religion.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey told Congress: "One analogue for
Wahhabism's political influence today might be the extremely angry
form taken by much of German nationalism in the period after World
War I." The former spy chief acknowledged that not all extremists of
the day became Nazis. But, he added: "Just as angry and extreme
German nationalism of that period was the soil in which Nazism grew,
Wahhabi Islamist extremism today is the soil in which al Qaeda and
its sister terrorist organizations are growing."
Much of that soil is spread across the United States. It hosts a
nascent Wahhabi Fifth Column.
Political commentator William Kristol couches the Saudi's export of
Wahhabism - via its funding of schools, mosques and think tanks in
America - as "a clear and present danger to the United States and its
citizens."
America must respond aggressively to that threat. Rather than accept
continued transparent professions of innocence, Americans must insist
that the Saudis immediately stop funding Wahhabi schools, mosques,
charities and think tanks in this country. We can no longer tolerate
such an overt onslaught on our national values
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