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| Saudi educators warned not to foster terrorism on Saudi soil |
| 2004-09-06 |
| Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz urged educators on Sunday to avoid promoting extremist concepts and warned them against covering up on extremist activities. "The first thing teachers should do is serve religion and the homeland, nothing else - neither serving terrorism nor external principles that come to us and which we don't accept," the state SPA news agency quoted Abdullah as telling education ministry officials and school heads during a meeting marking the new academic year. Saudi Arabia's educational system and curricula have come under fire in the West, particularly the United States, for allegedly fueling the kind of extremism that led to the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which 15 of 19 presumed suicide hijackers were Saudi. But the Muslim kingdom, stung by a wave of terror on its own soil which began in May 2003 and has been blamed on Islamist militants, is taking tentative steps to reform its education system to combat extremism. Officials also endlessly repeat that Islam is a tolerant religion that has nothing to do with the "deviant thinking" of fanatics. "Your creed is the most important thing," Abdullah, the kingdom's de facto ruler, told the educators. "But this is the Koran (holy book) and Sunna (the prophet Mohammad's doings and sayings), no more. As to the interpretations (of Islamic teachings), you know better than most what they have led to," Abdullah said. He was apparently referring to interpretations that justify resorting to terror, namely the ideology of "takfeer" under which other Muslims are branded as infidels in order to legitimize violence against them. "I think some of you know about certain things (extremist activities by teachers) but try to cover up a bit," Abdullah said. "But there's no room for that. This is a question of life or death, of a country, and before that of a religion," he said. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #8 The Red Look, just do as I do and call it the "Red Croissant" and get it over with. Emkay? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-07 3:11:39 AM |
| #7 yep, what dot sez! I think using what is an advance of the language when advancement is waranted. Here here! Thingy has a meaning beyond thing. It's a reminder! So CiT, no I don't think I can "possibly refrain" from anything. Nope, nothing! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-07 1:32:21 AM |
| #6 CiT - The "thingy" thingy is an RB tradition. For example, no one says the Red Cross - it's properly coded as The Red So don't blame Lucky when he employs good and proper RB nomenclatura to make his point. Lucky's the man, lol! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-07 12:17:29 AM |
| #5 Lucky: Do you think that you could possibly refrain from the use of the word "thingy"? It seems to be your hallmark, and about the only thing that makes your otherwise intelligent comments less than credible. Dropy the thingy if you pleasey, if youy don'ty mindy! |
| Posted by: CiT 2004-09-06 11:40:20 PM |
| #4 I wonder how Bin Laden likes being a tool of the Zionists. It must be really galling to be enslaved by the Jews. (extreme sarcism) |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-09-06 4:27:42 PM |
| #3 I just get a kick out of the juvinile "not 100%" thing. Cowardly snake. Hissing bullshit with, what seems like an arab thing to me now, some sort of near solved mystery attached. That sort of propaganda must be mst be stopped. Not by 95% but by 100% |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-06 4:06:44 PM |
| #2 Saudi educators warned not to foster terrorism on Saudi soil The first thing teachers should do is serve religion ... Too bad the article's title and one of its opening lines don't reconcile. The Saudi government itself is one of the primary purveyors of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in the entire Middle East. One can hardly expect that any teachings will be monitored when Saudi government agencies are spewing the exact sort of hate-filled messages they are purportedly railing against. Courtesy of MEMRI, here are some samples for your delectation: August 20, 2004 - No.768 Saudi Armed Forces Journal on the Jews: 'The Fabricated Torah, Talmud, and Protocols of the Elders of Zion Command Destruction of All Non-Jews for World Domination' A journal titled "Al-Jundi Al-Muslim" (The Muslim Soldier), which is published by the Religious Affairs Department of the Saudi armed forces, published an antisemitic article in its "Know Your Enemy" section. The article was written by Ma'ashu Muhammad and was titled "The Jews in the Modern Era." The following are excerpts from the article: "The majority of revolutions, coups d'etat, and wars which have occurred in the world [in the past], those that are occurring, and those that will occur, are almost entirely the handiwork of the Jews. They [the Jews] turned to [these methods] in order to implement the injunctions of the fabricated Torah, the Talmud, and the 'Protocols [of the Elders of Zion'], all of which command the destruction of all non-Jews in order to achieve their goal - namely, world domination ... "The Jews caused the outbreak of World War I and World War II, after they deceived the English into believing that they would be the sole beneficiaries of the First World War. The wealthy Jews made fantastic profits, paid for by the blood of millions of Englishmen, Americans, French, etc. June 24, 2004 - No.29 Incitement to Jihad on Saudi Government-Controlled TV By Steven Stalinsky* As part of MEMRI's TV Monitoring Project, Saudi government controlled television channels including TV1, TV2 and satellite channels such as Iqraa TV, are continually monitored. [1] These channels include shows with leading Saudi religious figures, professors, members of the royal family, government leaders and intellectuals. Constant themes within Saudi television shows include: calls for the annihilation of Christians and Jews, rampant anti-Americanism and antisemitism, support for Jihad, incitement against U.S. troops in Iraq, and the coming Islamic conquest of the U.S. Segments from these TV shows can be found at www.memriTV.org . Sheik Dr. Ahmad Abd Al-Latif, a professor at Um Al-Qura University , was asked the following question on Saudi channel TV1 on May 24: "Some imams and preachers call for Allah to annihilate the Jews and those who help them, and the Christians and those who support them… Is it permitted according to Islamic law?" Professor Al-Latif responded: "What made them curse the Jews is that the Jews are oppressors… The same goes for the Christians, because of their cruel aggression against Islamic countries … while the truth is that this is a crusading war whose goal is to harm Muslims. This is why a Muslim is allowed to curse the oppressors from among the Jews and Christians… Cursing the oppressing Jews and the oppressing and plundering Christians and the prayer that Allah will annihilate them is permitted." June 3, 2004 - No.726 Saudi Officials Reinforce Crown Prince Abdallah's Accusation that Zionists Are Behind Terror Attacks in Saudi Arabia At the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. on June 2, 2004, U.S. and Saudi officials held a news conference to announce stricter Saudi government oversight of charitable organizations which have been accused of supporting terrorism. The officials present at the press conference were Adel Al-Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah, E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, and Juan Zarate, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Executive Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime, Treasury Department. The officials were asked by the media about comments made by Crown Prince Abdallah in reaction to the May 1, 2004 terrorist attack in Yunbu, Saudi Arabia, in which seven people were killed. On the day after the attack, Crown Prince Abdallahstated at a gathering of Saudi dignitaries that "Zionists" were to blame: "This is seduction. You all know who is behind it all. Zionism is behind it. It has become clear now. It has become clear to us. I don't say, I mean… It is not 100%, but 95% [certain] that the Zionist hands are behind what happened. But I tell you that you can be 100% sure that, Allah willing, this country will be victorious, whoever the faction that turns against it may be. But we are convinced that Zionism is behind everything. This has been established, I am not saying by 100%, but by 95%." [1] Note the recent dates (all within 2004) of this raw sewage the Saudis now claim to be fighting. This is just more of the same old lies America is being fed as the Royals continue to stab us in the back. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-06 1:49:37 PM |
| #1 Good to see the wise prince take a notice and focus, like a lazer beam of light, on the thingy. Takfeer, another arab word for everbody to fear. I wonder if the Prince really thinks islam is a religion. I mean, he enforces it as civic legal code. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-06 1:43:34 PM |