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Advocates Slavery
The Saudi Institute - Freedom In Knowledge | Monday, 13 September 2004
Principal Author of Saudi Curriculums Advocates Slavery
Friday, 07 November 2003
By Saudi Institute Staff
WASHINGTON DC - The main author of the Saudi religious curriculum
expressed his unequivocal support for the legalization of slavery in
one of his lectures recorded on a cassette and obtained by the Saudi
Institute.
Shaikh Saleh Al-Fawzan (Photo: Saudi Institute)
Leading government cleric Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan is the author of the
religious books currently used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both
within the and in Saudi schools aboard � including those in the
Washington, D.C. metro area. "Slavery is a part of Islam," he says in
the tape, adding: "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as
long there is Islam." Government spokesman Adel Al-Jubeir and other
officials have repeatedly claimed religious curriculums are being
reformed, but Al-Fawzan's books continued to be used according to the
minister of education's statements published by Al-Watan daily
September 14th, 2003. Al-Fawzan is member of the Senior Council of
Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, a member of the
Council of Religious Edicts and Research, the Imam of Prince Mitaeb
Mosque in Riyadh, and a professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic
University, the main Wahhabi center of learning in the country. Al-
Fawzan refuted the mainstream Muslim interpretation that Islam worked
to abolish slavery by introducing equality between the races. "They
are ignorant, not scholars," he said of people who express such
opinions. "They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an
infidel." Al-Fawzan's most famous book, "Al-Tawheed � Monotheism", is
taught to Saudi high school students. In it, he says that most Muslims
are polytheists, and their blood and money are therefore free for the
taking by "true Muslims." Among Al-Fawzan's other controversial
beliefs is the right to ban the marriage of Arab women to non- Arab
Muslims, according to his book "Al-Mulkhas Al-Fiqhee" ("Digest of
Law"). He has also issued a fatwa forbidden the watching of TV.
Al-Fwazan is also is a leading opponent of those who seek to introduce
change to the Saudi school curriculum. He also claimed that elections
and demonstrations are western imitations. According to Saudi liberal
writer and scholar Sheikh Hassan Al-Maliki, Al-Fawzan threatened him
with beheading if he continued in his criticism of the extremist
Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. Al-Maliki, who worked for the
ministry of education, was fired after he wrote a 50- page paper
criticizing Al-Fawzan's book "Al-Tawheed".
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