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Saudis vs. terror

As you know Saudi Arabia is sponsoring a conference on terrorism to which Israel was not invited.

This is priceless:

Also attending are the United Nations (news - web sites), the European Union (news - web sites) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, whose secretary general, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, called on the UN to "issue a resolution prohibiting the linking of terrorism with any religion."

I guess if you believe that you'd also flunk this quiz.
And it's not just me, a Western Jew who believes that:

" Obviously not all Muslims are terrorists but, regrettably, the majority of the terrorists in the world are Muslims. The kidnappers of the students in Ossetia are Muslims. The kidnappers and killers of the Nepalese workers and cooks are also Muslims. Those who rape and murder in Darfour are Muslims, and their victims are Muslims as well. Those who blew up the residential complexes in Riyadh and Al-Khobar are Muslims. Those who kidnapped the two French journalists are Muslims. The two [women] who blew up the two planes [over Russia] a week ago are Muslims. Bin Laden is a Muslim and Al-Houthi [the head of a terrorist group in Yemen] is a Muslim. The majority of those who carried out suicide operations against buses, schools, houses, and buildings around the world in the last ten years are also Muslims.

. That's Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, former editor of the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Maybe he's western, but he still understands something of his co-religionists.

Abdullah said the fight against terror was linked to the fight against arms smuggling, drug trafficking and money laundering.

And perhaps curtailing telethons:

The Saudi Committee for Support of the Al-Aqsa Intifada recently raised nearly $110 million in a charity telethon, and some of this may have been transferred to the Hamas, Fox News reported. "There are troubling aspects as to how that telethon money would be distributed," admitted U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said he would raise the telethon issue with Saudi officials.

The Washington Times reported on April 9 that the Saudi Arabian government has already paid out $33 million to families of Palestinians killed or injured during the Intifada, and in December earmarked another $50 million for payments. The Saudi Committee for Support of the Al-Aqsa Intifada distributes payments of $5,333 to the families of the dead, with no distinction in compensation to families of suicide bombers and those killed by Israeli military action, the paper said.

Posted by SoccerDad at February 8, 2005 6:18 AM