Senate Will Probe Saudi Distribution Of Hate Materials

By MEGHAN CLYNE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
October 5, 2005

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.

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Full article at "New York Sun" - http://www.nysun.com/article/20998


Cheers, Steve..

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