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| Saudi largesse pushes Wahhabism |
| 2001-10-20 |
In a costly and quietly insistent campaign to spread its state religion, Saudi Arabia has been trying for decades to induce American Muslims to become followers of the puritanical Islamic sect that sustains the power of the Saudi royal family. By building mosques across the country, sending Americans to the Middle East to be trained as imams and promoting pilgrimages to Mecca, the Saudis have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to stamp their austere version of Islam on the lives of Muslims in the United States. They are trying to buy what Lenin would have called "useful idiots." By the accident of oil, this intellectual and technological backwater is positioned to attempt world domination. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |