| King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has
been very busy financing the spread of Wahhabi Islam, a strict
form of Islam. According to an article in World Net Daily on
March 29, 2002, he has personally spent billions to finance
the construction of 210 Islamic centers, over 1,500 mosques,
202 colleges, and nearly 2,000 schools in the United States,
Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Brazil,
Korea, and various other countries.
In the United States, he has financed the construction
of Islamic centers in Fresno, California; Columbia, Missouri;
East Lansing, Michigan; Los Angeles; New Brunswick, New Jersey;
New York; Tida, Maryland; Toledo, Ohio; Virgina; Washington;
and Chicago. He has also financed two mosques in Los Angeles,
and two more mosques in Chicago.
In addition, he has funded academic chairs at
the University of California and the College of Law at Harvard,
and has established research institutes at Duke University (North
Carolina), John Hopkins (Baltimore), Syracuse University (New
York), American University (Colorado), American University (Washington,
DC) and Howard University.
According to the same article, “WorldNetDaily
reported earlier this month that the Saudi government helped
“sustain” the al-Qaida network inside the kingdom as well as
in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Somalia, according to former
U.S. diplomats. Funding terrorism around the world is one way
the royals are able to satisfy religious clerics and stem dissent,
analysts say.”
Many of us remember the Arab Oil Embargo in
1973, but most of us probably have forgotten why it happened.
After the humiliating defeat of the Arabs by
Israel in the Six Day War in 1967, Egypt and Syria attacked
Israel again in 1973. After they broke though Israel’s defense
line, Israel threatened them with a devastating counteroffensive.
An armistice was achieved by the Arabs, not by military might,
but when Arab countries declared an embargo on oil to Western
countries.
During the 70’s and 80’s, Saudi Arabia became
awash in cash from the sale of oil.
Author Gilles Keper writes in his book, Jihad,
the Trail of Political Islam, “By becoming the managers of a
huge empire of charity and good works, the Saudi government
sought to legitimize a prosperity it claimed was manna from
heaven, blessing the peninsula where the Prophet Mohammed had
received his Revelation. Thus, an otherwise fragile Saudi monarchy
buttressed its power by projecting its obedient and charitable
dimension internationally. This religious policy also helped
people forget that American military might was the ultimate
guarantor of the kingdom and that the Saudi regime whose ulemas
vilified the West for its impiety actually depended very heavily
on the United States and its allies for survival. It was a ploy
that protected the House of Saud throughout the years of abundant
oil revenues, until the 1990-91 Gulf War exposed its essential
weakness.”
In other words, without oil money from the West,
Saudi Arabia would still be an impoverished, third-world country;
but without being a benefactor of their oil wealth to fellow
Muslims (including terrorists) in other Arab countries, they
fear being deposed by Muslims. They have good reason to fear,
as Saddam Hussein demonstrated when he invaded Kuwait. Saudi
Arabia was next in line be invaded by Hussein.
So what does this all mean? First, the money
that we pay for Saudi Arabian oil is financing the very force
that is committed to our destruction, Islam. Second, the war
on terror is costing us hundreds of billions to fight the very
people we are making wealthy with oil revenues. Third, when
Islamic powers-that-be force Saudi Arabia to cut off the supply
of oil (again), U.S. security will be in great jeopardy and
its economy will be in shambles. After all, it’s obvious the
Saudis aren’t exactly able to call all the shots. Finally, it
means that Islam is going to continue to spread worldwide, financed
by oil money.
This is why it is so critical that the United
States become energy dependent. We all need to understand how
precarious this situation really is and how serious the consequences
really could be, and to make certain that our senators and representatives
do something about energy policy. The war on terror can’t be
effectively fought until we are able to live without Arab oil.
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