[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: C'mon Ralph, tell us how you really feel...

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
C'mon Ralph, tell us how you really feel...
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1210175644.shtml


   Via the [1]New York Post

     I've visited over a dozen Muslim countries and many more that have
     significant Muslim minorities. In every case, I've found the Saudis
     funding evil.

     From Thailand to the United States, the Saudi goal is to prevent
     Muslims from integrating into their host societies. In poor
     countries, such as Kenya, they pay families to pull their children
     out of state schools and send them to madrassahs - where they learn
     to recite the Koran, but no career skills.

     The Saudis don't mind if Muslims live in poverty and squalor - as
     long as Muslims don't identify with the societies around them. They
     want strict religious and cultural apartheid.

     So here's another easy thing Congress can do: Prohibit foreign
     funding, direct or indirect, of US religious institutions and
     schools by the government or citizens of any state that denies
     religious freedom to its own residents. No churches in Saudi
     Arabia? OK, no Saudi-controlled madrassahs in Virginia.

     And when referring to Islamist terrorists or the Saudi royal family
     that nurtured them for so long, let's stop using the term
     "Islamo-fascists." As horrid as Italian or Spanish fascists could
     be, they were enlightened humanitarians compared to either al Qaeda
     or our Saudi "friends." Let's just call fanatics "fanatics."

     The greatest modern tragedy for the Arab world wasn't European
     imperialism. It was who got the oil money: inbred desert barbarians
     with a zero-sum mentality about heaven and earth. The stunningly
     hypocritical Saudis (they could teach Eliot Spitzer plenty about
     top-flight hookers) have used their wealth to cut out Islam's
     heart. The faith of Mohammed, peace be upon him, has no greater
     enemies.

     In this fight, we Americans, and Muslims around the world who
     cherish their faith, should stand united against the Saudis.

     In the heat of the moment, Iran appears to many to be our worst
     enemy in the Middle East. While the nut house government in Tehran
     is a deadly problem, it's ultimately one of lesser scale. Our
     greatest enemy, anywhere, is Saudi Arabia, the cradle of terror.

     Five years ago, I supported removing Saddam Hussein on moral and
     geopolitical grounds. I'm beginning to suspect we invaded the wrong
     country.

   He's right, but "beginning to suspect"..? I was thinking the same
   thing back in October 2001. Where was Ralph?

References

   1. http://www.nypost.com/seven/05052008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/saudi_stick_up_109492.htm