Senate to Probe Saudi Hate Literature in Mosques

[tmaconway]

littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17767_Senate_to_Probe_Saudi_Hate_Literature_in_Mosques&only

WASHINGTON - The American government is demanding that Saudi Arabia account for its distribution of hate material to American mosques, as the State Department pressed Saudi officials for answers last week and as the Senate later this month plans to investigate the propagation of radical Wahhabism on American shores.

The flurry of activity comes months after a report from the Center for Religious Freedom discovered that dozens of mosques in major cities across the country, including New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, were distributing documents, bearing the seal of the government of Saudi Arabia, that incite Muslims to acts of violence and promote hatred of Jews and Christians.

A Washington-based group that is part of the human rights organization Freedom House, the Center for Religious Freedom also found during its yearlong study that the Saudi-produced materials describe democracy and America as un-Islamic. They instruct recent Muslim immigrants to consider Americans as enemies and the materials urge new arrivals to use their time here as preparation for jihad. The documents also promote the version of Islam officially embraced by Saudi government and several of the September 11, 2001, hijackers, Wahhabism, as the only authentic Islam.

…And the Muslims here in this forum wonder why some of us treat them with suspicion. No doubt CAIR will be all over this one claiming some sort of discrimination.

 

[Hospitaller]

Thanks for posting the link.

 

[George_Waters]

Bets on how fast the term “media bias” will be used in reply to this posted link?

 

[Guar_Fan]

The news article in the first post was written by New York Sun reporter Meghan Clyne. nysun.com/article/20998

The article is based upon allegations by the Center for Religious Freedom. If you go to their website, you will see that they are a partisan organization with a political agenda:

Center for Religious Freedom defends against religious persecution of all groups throughout the world. It insists that U.S. foreign policy defend Christians and Jews, Muslim dissidents and minorities, and other religious minorities in countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iran and Sudan. It is fighting the imposition of harsh Islamic law in the new Iraq and Afghanistan and opposes blasphemy laws in Muslim countries that suppress more tolerant and pro-American Muslim thought.

freedomhouse.org/religion/

 

[George_Waters]

Is this article based on allegations by the Center for Religious Freedom or did they pick up Ms. Clyne’s article in the Sun? If that is the case does Meghan Clyne have a “political agenda” as well? Perhaps, and I will freely admit I do not know, that the Center for Religious Freedom does have a political agenda, but does that change the reported claim that the Senate will investigate these allegations? On another thread I provided links to Muslim news agencies that supported the version on an event that was claimed to be a “myth” perpetuated by the biased western media by a poster on this forum. Just because something is unflattering to our personal agenda does not mean it isn’t true.

 

[Guar_Fan]

Just because something is unflattering to our personal agenda does not mean it isn’t true.

You are absolutely right. It just generally is a good idea to be aware of potential biases when accusations get made.