Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Terrorism has nothing at all to do with Islam, yet clerics in Islam's holiest place provide the ideological backbone for it: Saudi clerics warn against Palestinian concessions
Arab governments led by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have given their backing to a new government without the Islamist movement Hamas. Abbas formed the cabinet last month after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in fighting with Fatah.
The United States and Israel opposed the Hamas-led government because Hamas refused to renounce armed struggle against Israel or recognise the Israeli state.
"Maintain the way of jihad and preaching which has spread among the Muslim Palestinian people. Support it and beware of it easing up, and ward off the danger of those who are laying in wait," said a June 30 statement published on Islamist Web sites.
The document was signed by 16 clerics who are leading figures in Saudi Arabia's powerful religious establishment, including Abdel-Rahman al-Barrak and Nasser al-Omar...
...the clerics said: "It is our right to help them (Muslims) financially and morally and giving alms is a great moral virtue ... we warn against letting down our brothers in Palestine and in Gaza in particular."
Ah, men of peace. Saudi funding of domestic institutions should be either shunned or, where it infiltrates, subject to extra scrutiny and criticism.
Hi! Please consider posting the best Mohammad's cartoon ever. See it here http://samsonblinded.org/blog/a-cartoon-for-a-cartoon.htm
I blogged about this, too. But let's not forget, per President Bush and the Arabist State Department, THE SAUDIS ARE OUR FRIENDS (and don't you forget it)!
When are people going to wake up?
Even Red Ken figured it out (finally):
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070630/tuk-britain-attacks-mayor-saudi-muslims-a7ad41d.html
Meanwhile this incitement can bring only blood, tears and misery to the people of the world.