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October 18, 2005
We're Worried About The Avian Pandemic, But What About The Pandemic From The Wahabi Virus?
Topics: Understanding IslamYesterday, Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, in their piece at FrontPageMagazine.com, wrote that what the West is now gearing up to do in order to stop the much-feared pandemic of Avian flu at its sources, is what it should have done to stop the pandemic of Wahhabism and Islamo-Fascism two decades ago. According to Ehrenfeld and Lappen, our inaction has "facilitated the funding of terrorism that has killed and maimed many thousands and infected tens of millions around the world," an observation that I whole heartedly agree with.
The National Intelligence Reform Act, passed in December 2004, requires the development of a Presidential strategy for confronting Islamic extremism in collaboration with Saudi Arabia. So far, according to the September Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on the subject, U.S. agencies have been unable to determine the extent of Saudi Arabia's domestic and international cooperation to end radical Islamist propaganda. Indeed, the evidence suggests that the Saudis have done precious little to comply.Furthermore, the Saudis are continuing to fund terrorists activities as evident from the August capture of Y'akub Abu Assab, a senior HAMAS operative who with Saudi money opened the HAMAS communication center for the region of Judea, in East Jerusalem. Assab transferred hundred of thousands of dollars from HAMAS headquarters in Saudi Arabia to East Jerusalem, and from there, following instructions he received from Saudi Arabia, he distributed operational instructions and funding for HAMAS activities in the West Bank and Gaza. and gave money to families of suicide bombers.
Moreover, in Saudi Arabia, the secretary-general of the government's Muslim World League Koran Memorization Commission, Sheikh Abdallah Basfar, urges Muslims everywhere to fund terrorism. On Iqra TV, on August 29, 2005, Sheikh Basfar said: "The Prophet said: 'He who equips a fighter -- it is as if he himself fought.' You lie in your bed, safe in your own home, and donate money and Allah credits you with the rewards of a fighter. What is this? A privilege."Although President Bush recently denounced "the murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals [which] is the great challenge of our century," a GAO report says that the U.S. Treasury Department "does not identify, monitor, or counter the support and funding or the global propagation of Islamic extremism as it relates to an ideology." The GAO report further clarifies that this ideology "denies the legitimacy of non-believers and practitioners of other forms of Islam, and that explicitly promotes hatred, intolerance, and violence..."Indeed, "[I]n the Kingdom, ... young people are systematically infused with hostility for 'infidels'," writes former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey in the forward to the January 2005 Freedom House report on Saudi fanaticism.
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So, why aren't we identifying, monitoring, AND countering the support and funding or the global propagation of Islamic extremism?
Posted by Richard at October 18, 2005 8:17 AM
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