[I'm still getting myself settled after a two-day trip to Washington, so blogging will be light, however...]
Voices of the occupied
Syria Out!
Hey Syria--Who's Next?
There is no God but God. Hariri is beloved of God.
-- banners and chants at the funeral of Rafik Hariri
I'm here because we're fed up with what's going on. For once there is a movement that includes Muslims, Christians and Druse, that's saying 'enough.'"
-- a Lebanese man quoted by Hassan M. Fattah in yesterday's New York Times. Lebanon's Muslim, Christian and Druse communities, frequently at odds with one another, have joined together in outrage over Hariri's assassination. Not only that, but, as Fattah reports, "hundreds of women, breaking with Islamic tradition, joined in the march."
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Our Friends the Saudis
Terrorism does not belong to any culture, or religion or political system. It is a global crime perpetrated by evil minds filled with hatred towards humanity...This conference represents the will of the international community to combat this crime in every aspect by fighting evil with justice, confronting deviant thought with wisdom and noble ideas and challenging extremism with moderation and tolerance.
-- Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah bin Adul-Aziz
The leadership and commitment the Saudis have shown towards finding practical and effective ways to fight terrorism are commendable...In working closely with the Saudi leadership over the past few years, together we have developed some key lessons about combating terrorism.
-- Homeland Security Adviser to the President, Frances Townsend
These quotes embellished a full-page advertisement which appeared in yesterday's New York Times. The four-color ad--from the "Saudi National Unity Campaign Against Terrorism." (SNUCAT? Couldn't Qorvis come up with something snappier?)--ran in conjunction with last week's conference held in Riyadh, and was intended to assure us that OFTS are doing all they possibly can to fight the "global crime" of terrorism. Evidently, the conference was a smashing success--as the Saudi press reported on February 14--President Bush called Crown Prince Abdullah to congratulate him
Meanwhile...
The first to kill and use terrorism in the world were the Jews and America. They began to act this way 200 years before us. The blowing up of the buildings in Washington, opposite the Pentagon [sic], was an American terror attack. There are world Zionist circles that want to create for us constitutions that are illegitimate. But we won't accept the Zionist rule or that of the White House---which is, in fact, a Black House...
We ask Allah to strengthen the spirits of the jihad fighters in Iraq and to help them against their enemies the Jews and the Christians.
-- Saudi cleric Aed Al-Qarni speaking on Saudi TV, February 7.
(Steven Stalinsky, MEMRI)
And this, from the Center for Religious Freedom's absolutely essential report--already one of the most important documents on the War Against Islamofascism:
To be disassociated from the infidels is to hate them for their religion, to leave them, to never rely on them for support, not to admire them, to be on one's guard against them, never imitate them, and to always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.
-- literature found by the Center for Religious Freedom's researchers at the the Saudi Arabian-supported Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. (For a pdf-formatted version of this eye-opening report, go here; for an executive summary, here.)
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