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In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate....
2003-11-10
From LGF:
11/8/2003: "Slavery Is a Part of Islam"
The main author of Saudi Arabia’s religious school curriculum comes out unequivocally in favor of legalizing slavery. (Hat tip: AD.) And this raving freak’s books are also used in Islamic schools in Washington DC. 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.”
Logos: If A is part of B and A is part of C and C = B then eliminate B
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 Learned Elders of Islam 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.”
Allah whispers in MY ear, alone.
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.”
Sounds like the cheerleader for the Al Qaeda’s who just boomed the Soddies. Wanna know why they killed you? Ask the Fawnzie. Seems you’re just as bad as the crusader infidels.
Posted by:mercutio

#2  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.”
A true Muwhahhidun then, unlike that wimpy Shaykh Abdullah ibn Jibreen (another SCC boy), Jibreen issued a fatwa calling for the extermination of the Shi'a idolaters alone! No mention at all of killing deluded so-called Sunnis - revolting isn't it?
AFAIK Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab was of the opinion that any Muslims who didn't his follow particular brand of Islam were kafirs & 'twas OK to wage Jihad against them. I wonder if the Sa'udis like to publicise this aspect of their official ideology, it would make OIC conferences kind of interesting: 'Listen to me - you're not really Muslims, you're all Mushirkoun! It's our divine duty to slaughter you like sheep & deliver you to eternal hell-fire!'
The Sa'udis only got round to abolishing slavery (or at least pretending to) in 1963 (well you can't rush these things can you?) so it isn't really surprising that some of 'em have slightly old-fashioned ideas on the subject.
Posted by: Dave   2003-11-10 5:51:17 PM  

#1  We ought to bankroll some poor country that needs cash to introiduce UN resolutions that denounce this guy and his views on slavery. It would be an interesting Roll Call vote.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-11-10 5:18:53 PM  

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