Kesher Talk

Our buddies in Saudi Arabia: Michael Barone (editor of US News & World Report) was on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" last night talking about them:

There's one thing that I think is particularly important. I've talked now about--heretofore about links of the Saudis to the terrorist attacks and to terrorist organizations. There's another important thing that they're doing that works very much against American interests and the interests of decent, civilized people everywhere, and that's the promotion of this Wahabist brand of Islam. Unlike most forms of Islam, it prescribes a totalitarian society. It says that the only decent society you can live in is the kind of society that runs by the sorts of rules in Saudi Arabia where there is no freedom of religion, where there is no freedom of speech, where there is no respect for women, where there is the seven non-negotiable demands of human liberty that George W. Bush talked about... None of them is honored in Saudi Arabia, and they are spreading this form of totalitarian religion and hatred in the United States, in Muslim countries, in Asia, in Muslim communities in Europe by financing and subsidizing clerics...

posted by Howard @ 6/05/2002 10:07:13 AM