New Report on Saudi Government Publications in U.S.

The Center for Religious Freedom has released a new study titled Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques. The study’s foreword was written by James Woolsey (CIA director from 1993-1195) is worth reading for its own sake. (James Woolsey, by the way, was the CIA director that Bill Clinton avoided meeting for no apparent reason. )

The study reviews the history of the Wahhabi Islamic sect that dominates Saudi Arabia and how it changed from being a fringe element to essentially becoming Saudi Arabia’s “official version” of Islam after 1979. The study examines the how the Saudi ruling family has funded the Wahhabi clerics and their international efforts to create mosques and Islamic schools that only teach the Wahhabi version of Islam. The study also examines the hostile language—hostile to Western culture, that is—of Wahhabi ideology and literature.

Here is a short explanation of the study’s intention:

Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom decided to undertake this project after a number of Muslims and other experts publicly raised concerns about Saudi state influence on American religious life.1 This report complements a May 2003 recommendation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent government agency, that the U.S. government conduct a study on Saudi involvement in propagating internationally a “religious ideology that explicitly promotes hate, intolerance, and other human rights violations, and in some cases violence, toward members of other religious groups, both Muslims and non-Muslims.” 2 In releasing this report, the Center is also mindful of one of the key findings of the 9/11 Commission Report: “Education that teaches tolerance, the dignity and value of each individual, and respect for different beliefs is a key element in any global strategy to eliminate Islamist terrorism.”

The phenomenon of Saudi hate ideology is worldwide, but its occurrence in the United States has received scant attention. This report begins to probe in detail the content of the Wahhabi ideology that the Saudi government has worked to propagate through books and other publications within our borders. …

As I read the study I was struck by the explicit directives on how to shun infidels and when to kill:

Here is Wahhabi position on saying “Hi!” to an infidel:

On the matter of whether or not to commence greetings with Christians and Jews, the Saudi publication imposes a strict prohibition. Replying to a salutation by an unbeliever, on the other hand, should consist of no more than a terse “and upon you” …. This directive is also contained in the tract published by the Saudi Embassy’s Cultural Department in Washington and collected from the Islamic Center in Washington.

“It is forbidden for a Muslim to be first in greeting an unbeliever, even if he has a prestigious position.”

Here’s the instruction on how to hate your Christian neighbor:

According to the Wahhabi view, it is a Muslim’s religious duty to cultivate enmity between oneself and unbelievers. Hatred of unbelievers is the proof that the believer has completely dissociated from them. A work entitled Loyalty and Dissociation in Islam, compiled by the Ibn Taymiya Library in Riyadh and distributed by the King Fahd-supported Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., states emphatically:

“To be dissociated from the infidels is to hate them for their religion, to leave them, never to rely on them for support, not to admire them, to be on one’s guard against them, never to imitate them, and to always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.”

Here is Wahhabi intolerance for tolerance:

Western churches have increasingly called for greater unity among world religions and interfaith dialogue, but the Saudi Arabian authoritative religious office is adamant. The government’s Permanent Committee finds no common ground. Islam is the final and most perfect religion and by its coming all previous religions, including Judaism and Christianity, have been nullified. The Saudi text asserts that the Koran has rendered both the Torah and the Gospels obsolete because they were tampered with and altered by wicked or wayward men. The call to greater unity among religions is therefore sinful since it erases the radical differences between Islam and systems of unbelief. The Saudi text, distributed in the San Diego mosque declares,

“It is basic to the belief of Islam that everyone who does not embrace Islam is an unbeliever and must be called an unbeliever and that they are enemies to Allah, his Prophet and the believers….That is why the one who does not call the Jews and the Christian unbelievers is himself an unbeliever….”

Worst of all is for a Muslim to call for such unity and promote this sinful idea at meetings or conferences with unbelievers. Thus, participating in the building of interdenominational places of worship where religious rites other than those of Islam are practiced is a serious instance of misguided behavior meriting severe reprimand

The Saudi government text makes clear the reason interfaith harmony is to be feared is that it will lead to the end of jihad.

“The effect of this sinful call is that it erases the differences between Islam and disbelief, between truth and falsehood, good and bad, and it breaks the wall of resentment between the Muslims and the unbelievers, so that there is no loyalty and enmity, no more jihad and fighting to raise Allah’s word on earth….”

Here is Wahhabi religious instruction on how to be a total overbearing prick toward your domestic help:

The Saudi publications also instruct Muslims that it is preferable not to hire non-
Muslims, especially within the Arabian Peninsula, but, if they do, they have to hate them. In fatwas on the “Treatment of Servants,” published [Document No. 36] by the Saudi Embassy to Washington and collected from the Islamic Center in East Orange, N.J., the late Saudi Grand Mufti Bin Baz states the following about how to handle an infidel domestic worker:

“The women in your household do not have to stay away from her, but they should not treat her as they would treat a Muslim woman. They have to hate her for Allah’s sake….” [Document No. 36]

The study covers an number of everyday topic, for example, how to tell when it becomes necessary to kill another Muslim, demonizing the Jews, how to hate Muslims how are something other than Wahhabis, anti-Americanism, and so on.

Feeling more enlightened yet?