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One Jerusalem makes a very good point on how the American government's continuing to treat Saudi Arabia as a friend rather than an enemy is simply undermining the war on terror they claim to be working on.

When historians analyze the days of our lives they will be puzzled by the failure of the United States to treat the source of many our problems -- Saudi Arabia -- as an enemy not a friend.

For starters, the Saudis are financing the spread of the most hateful and militant form of Islam all over the world - including the United States and Britain.

The Saudis have done nothing to break the oil cartel that they helped establish that is jacking up the price of oil every single day.

Saudi Arabia continues to allow terrorists to cross their border into Iraq where they kill Americans and democratic minded Iraqis.

Despite this agenda the Saudis are treated as welcomed guests and allies. We are told that if they are replaced real enemies will appear. It is hard to imagine that things can get any worse.

But they are. Karen Hughes who is charged with engaging Muslims on behalf of the State Department is going to speak this weekend at a group that is a Saudi front operating in the United States. I urge you to read Frank Gaffney's article on this matter.

If we don't understand who our enemies are we will not survive this life and death struggle.

And that's why it's a good thing we have the blogverse to serve as possibly the best education source there is today. This entry from Jihad Watch also offers some good insight into the subject.

Speaking of education, this is exactly what dictatorial Muslim countries need to be told: to reeducate youth, and/or to change their education methods. Alas, the US government fails to do so, and by failing to do so, they are simply ignoring one of the most important elements for democracy in many Arab countries.

Update: on the Houston Chronicle, an editorial about the conflicting interests between the US and Saudi Arabia on oil sales. It's interesting, but there's one thing where they slipped:

"In order to remain in power, the Saudi royal family must appease the dissatisfied segment of its populace that, deprived of a voice in government, has turned to religious fanaticism and hatred of the West. Even if the House of Saud wished to extend equality to women and the rule of law to all, which it doesn't, its princes probably couldn't summon the courage to do so and thus diminish their hold on power."

While they're right that women most certainly do deserve rights, and that they don't actually have a voice in the rulership, they're wrong that the populace - not the government/dictatorship - if that's what they're implying, has simply turned to hatred of the west, whereas in fact, their government-funded schools and mosques teach hatred of the west and anyone else they consider "dhimmis". This is part of Wahabi Islam, the official version of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is in this respect like other forms of Islam, but more so. Yet, Wahabism isn't even mentioned anywhere in the editorial.

The Houston Chronicle ought to be ashamed of itself for misleading a public that deserves much better information than this.

Labels: dhimmitude, House of Saud