2/02/2005

Early in the Freedom House tract called SAUDI PUBLICATIONS ON HATE IDEOLOGY FILL AMERICAN MOSQUES (in PDF) we are treated to the following partial paragraph

The tracts he opens are in the voice of a senior religious authority. They tell him that America, his adoptive home, is the “Abode of the Infidel,” the Christian and the Jew. He reads: Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law. There is consensus on this matter, that whoever helps unbelievers against Muslims, regardless of what type of support he lends to them, he is
an unbeliever himself. As he reads this warning, Ahmed thinks back to the U.S. government’s request to the American Muslim community for their voluntary cooperation in the fight against terrorism and he is afraid. He knows that the tracts’ author views such officials as “unbelievers,” so that, if he helped them, he would be an unbeliever himself, a renegade, an apostate from Islam who should therefore be put to death. He begins to worry too about his cousin, an American citizen who recently enlisted in the U.S. military. The books give him detailed instructions on how to build a “wall of resentment” between himself and the infidel: Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel. Ahmed looks carefully at the book’s cover. It says “Greetings from the Cultural Department” of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C.
The above is a small taste of the contents of The Freedom House publication about Saudi sponsorship of hate within mosques. This was released at the same time the Iraqi elections took place and has been lost in the shuffle. It's a long long read so I'll leave it to others with more time to pick and clean it. It's so bad, I don't think any picking and cleaning will do it justice. This is very serious stuff.