CHRISTIAN POST: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) criticized the State Department for softening its critique of the Saudi government’s religious freedom violations in its latest annual report.Mark Alexander
“The Commission is simply shocked that the Department removed longstanding and widely quoted language from its report that freedom of religion does not exist in Saudi Arabia,” said Felice D. Gaer, Chair of the Commission in a statement following the report’s release last week.
The annual International Religious Freedom Report released by the U.S. Department of State did recognize that “there generally was no change in the status of religious freedom” in Saudi Arabia during the reporting period. However, the report also highlighted the Saudi government’s pledge to improve religious freedom policies and calls for religious tolerance by imams (clerics). U.S. Report on Saudi Arabia Criticized as Too Soft
Monday, September 18, 2006
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I've only just noticed that quote you have from Queen Margrethe on your page.
Do you mind if I pinch it and put on mine too? It's excellent.
Sperestillan:
Welcome!
No, I don't mind at all if you "pinch" it. They are not my words, so I don't have copyright over them. Feel free, my friend!
You are clearly a gentleman for asking. I appreciate that.
Mark - The State Department and the Excecutive branch are too soft on the Saudis. The fact that they cozy up is more than troubling.
The Saudi royal family, which everyone knows is numerous, has fingers in many pies in the United States and has convinced the State Department and President Bush to allow thousands more Saudi citizens to enter the university system. To me this is madness.
Perhaps they were convinced to do so because one "should not atagonize a kingdom that sits on top of one of the earth's principal oil reserves and in the past has used an oil embargo to punish the United States" for various reasons.
In other words, we've sold our souls for oil. This is also the reason why there has not been a sincere effort in r&d for alternative fuels and technology.
The Saudis have purchased their way into American universities by offering grants, creating university chairs in Islamic study departments, and expecting the right to have a say in how Islam is presented by every individual that steps foot on the campus. These same universities then are training the upcoming American elite and American teaching candidates, for whom they provide "suitable teaching material".
Hyocritically they have bought into US publishing houses for the purpose of affecting how Islam is treated in textbooks, while continuing to teach the same vile anti-Semetic, anti-Infidel, anti-American propaganda in their textbooks.
They have funded and built mosques and paid the imams, built Islamic schools based on Wahhabism, provided Korans and other "suitable" Islamic books for American public libraries and so on.
Why is this permitted? Well, my guess is oil and generous payments to former officials when they leave public service.
The whole thing is an outrage.
Eleanor:
Mark - The State Department and the Excecutive branch are too soft on the Saudis. The fact that they cozy up is more than troubling.
Very, very troubling! We have a similar problem here in the United Kingdom.
The Saudi royal family, which everyone knows is numerous, has fingers in many pies in the United States and has convinced the State Department and President Bush to allow thousands more Saudi citizens to enter the university system. To me this is madness.
Isn't money changing hands somewhere for this to happen?
Perhaps they were convinced to do so because one "should not atagonize a kingdom that sits on top of one of the earth's principal oil reserves and in the past has used an oil embargo to punish the United States" for various reasons.
Bah! Where is our strength?
In other words, we've sold our souls for oil. This is also the reason why there has not been a sincere effort in r&d for alternative fuels and technology.
We have indeed sold our souls for oil; and we are going to pay a very high price for having done so, too.
The Saudis have purchased their way into American universities by offering grants, creating university chairs in Islamic study departments, and expecting the right to have a say in how Islam is presented by every individual that steps foot on the campus. These same universities then are training the upcoming American elite and American teaching candidates, for whom they provide "suitable teaching material".
How sickening, and how troubling! We have a similar problem here in the United Kingdom. Shady business deals will do us in.
Hyocritically they have bought into US publishing houses for the purpose of affecting how Islam is treated in textbooks, while continuing to teach the same vile anti-Semetic, anti-Infidel, anti-American propaganda in their textbooks.
Yes, I realize. The future looks bleak.
They have funded and built mosques and paid the imams, built Islamic schools based on Wahhabism, provided Korans and other "suitable" Islamic books for American public libraries and so on.
Yes, the whole caboodle.
Why is this permitted? Well, my guess is oil and generous payments to former officials when they leave public service.
Yes, and perhaps when they are in public office, too!
The whole thing is an outrage.
An outrage indeed!
There can be only one plausible reason that the Executive Branch and the State Department are soft on the Saudis ---PAYOLA PAYOLA PAYOLA. The Saudis are systemmatically undermining this country. How long will our crooked politicians let it go on. Hopefully not until all of our heads are cut off. Religion of peace, indeed. Just how stupid do our politicans think we are -- certainly not as dishonest and traitorous as they are!
Well, I wouldn't have known about them if I hadn't seen them on your blog.
Thanks very much.
You're very welcome, Sperestillan.
PAYOLA, PAYOLA, PAYOLA, USIP, PAYOLA, PAYOLA, PAYOLA!
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