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Saudi Arabia, supposedly the most supportive Muslim country of the U.S. in the Middle East, is actually our worst enemy! It is no coincidence that of the nineteen suicide terrorists of 9/11, fifteen were Saudis! And their leader, Osama 'bin Laden, the head of Al-Qaeda, is a Saudi.
Saudi Arabia is the Muslim country most responsible for the spread of Islamic terrorism throughout the world, bankrolled by the billions paid that country by the United States and other countries for its oil. The U.S., and other Western countries, count with Saudi Arabia for a considerable amount of their energy needs. The U.S. alone depends on Saudi Arabia for about one fifth of its petroleum needs, paying that country around twenty billion dollars each year. The greed of the international oil companies and our venal or uninformed politicians will almost certainly maintain this status quo for some time to come, i.e.-that the United States and other Western countries will continue to put petrodollars into the pockets of the country most responsible for Islamic world terrorism.
And it is Saudi petrodollars that has funded and maintained thousands of mosques and centers of Islamic studies throughout the civilized world, though there is not a single church or synagogue in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Government also funds, at least initially, courses in Islamic Studies at several U.S. universities. (See "Islam in Academia", Pg. 60).
Saudi Arabia is the seat of Islam, the birthplace of Muhammad, and the site of Medina and Mecca, the two most revered cities of the Muslim world. Also, the Kaaba shrine is situated in Mecca, to which every Muslim is obligated to attempt a pilgrimage during his or her lifetime.
The Country is also the most repressive society of the Muslim world. Though nominally ruled by the Saudi Royal Family, they do so at the pleasure of the most extreme sect of Islam, the Wahhabis. This sect, named after their founder, Abdul Wahhabi, remains the power behind the throne. Wahhabi, born in 1703, was a zealot, who like Muhammad, married a wealthy woman. On her death he dedicated her considerable fortune to the return of Islam to its principal goal of world domination.
In the middle of the 18th Century Wahhabi found a powerful political backer in Muhammad 'ibn Saud, the leader of a powerful clan in Central Arabia. Since then, the fortunes of the descendants of the Wahhabi and Saud families have been inexorably intertwined. The Saudi Royal Family, consisting of perhaps as many as 30,000 princes and princesses, may eventually deposed by a fundamentalist revolution. When this occurs, the Wahhabis will probably endure.
The Saudis are "riding the tiger", and sooner or later will fall off! But until then, they dare not withhold their considerable support of Islamic world terrorism. Their policy has been to continuously funnel funds to various terrorist groups with the understanding that
these groups will conduct their attacks outside of Saudi Arabia. This has not always been the case.
Of the mosques established in the U.S. and other Western countries, with Saudi money, about 60% of their clerics are Wahhabis….preaching hate from the pulpit!
For a better understanding of our "Enemy Number One", we recommend a fascinating book entitled "Hatred’s Kingdom". Its author, Mr.Dore Gold, was an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and served as Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 through 1999. Copies of certain documents, as shown in his book, leave no doubt that Saudi Arabia has been the principle source of Muslim Terrorism throughout the world, and especially of Al-Qaeda.
In the words of R. James Woolsey, former Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, "If you read one book to understand the roots of Al-Qaeda’s fury, it should be this one."