An astonishing document has been produced by Freedom House’s Centre for Religious Freedom. Drawing on some 200 books and other publications associated with Saudi Arabia which were gathered from a number of American mosques, it provides an utterly horrifying picture of how Saudi is indoctrinating potentially thousands of American Muslim citizens to hate America and work against its democracy and its interests.

These documents instruct American Muslims not only not to integrate but to hate and attack all unbelievers in America:

‘Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion,leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.’

The books and pamphlets tell them that the only purposes for living in America are to represent a Muslim government, conduct commercial transactions, seek medical care, study, seek converts to Islam, and uncover the infidels’ corrupt ways, erroneous beliefs, and plots they may be hatching against the Muslims.

Anti-democracy indoctrination is drilled into their minds:

‘This theme runs through a work published in English by the International Islamic Publishing House in Saudi Arabia and apparently intended for Muslims living in the United States. Copies of this book were collected at the Al Farouq Mosque in Houston, Texas. Chapter 2, of To Be a Muslim [Document No. 31], “The Compulsory Nature of Islamic Activism,” asserts that all available political and economic systems and man-made laws are fundamentally anti-Islamic and “operate functionally to deny the wisdom of Allah on earth.” The book states that the responsibility to change these systems is “binding in principle, in law, in self-defense, in community and as a sacred obligation of jihad.” It is compulsory for every Muslim to establish an Islamic society “in every country on earth and to restore the Islamic way of life taught by all the prophets.” '( my emphasis)

Tolerating other religions is prohibited:

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Islam is the final and most perfect religion and by its coming all previous religions, including Judaism and Christianity, have been nullified. The Saudi text asserts that the Koran has rendered both the Torah and the Gospels obsolete because they were tampered with and altered by wicked or wayward men. The call to greater unity among religions is therefore sinful since it erases the radical differences between Islam and systems of unbelief. The Saudi text, distributed in the San Diego mosque declares, “It is basic to the belief of Islam that everyone who does not embrace Islam is an unbeliever and must be called an unbeliever and that they are enemies to Allah, his Prophet and the believers….That is why the one who does not call the Jews and the Christian unbelievers is himself an unbeliever….” [Document No. 2]

And the worst enemies of all are the Jews:

‘Wahhabis invariably present Jews as falling permanently under God’s curse, and often as less than human… A book [Document No. 38] published in English by the King Fahd National Library in Riyadh for the benefit of Muslim emigrant communities abroad, copies of which were found at the Al-Farouq Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, describes Jewish iniquities as follows: “They broke their Covenant; they rejected Allah’s guidance as conveyed by His messengers; they killed Allah’s messengers and incurred a double guilt which included murder and deliberate defiance of Allah’s Law; and they imagined themselves arrogantly self-sufficient, which means a blasphemous closing of their hearts forever against the admission of Allah’s grace.” [Document No. 38] It continues, “They rejected faith; they made false charges against godly women like Mary, who was chosen by Allah to be the mother of Jesus; they boasted of having killed Jesus when they were victims of their self hallucination; they hindered people from Allah’s way; and by means of usury and fraud they oppressed their fellow men.” [Document No. 38]

Note the hatred and demented prejudice against Jews, not just Israel – which of course is also duly demonised. Of particular interest in the context of the prejudice against Israel expressed by much of the Christian establishment here in Britain is the following:

‘Writing in 1984 in English as a member of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Steve A. Johnson, also using the name of Faruq Abdullah, describes what he sees as an “unholy alliance” between “Zionists” on one side and “liberal and fundamentalist Protestants” on the other… In the face of such gathering perils, Johnson calls on Muslims to mobilize and “develop an extensive, well-organized campaign to inform liberal Protestant and fundamentalist Protestant ministers about the history of Palestine and the truth about Islam.” This, he concludes, must become a priority “both at the national level and the individual masjid (mosque) level” [Document No. 14].

This strikes me as an extremely important document which deserves wide coverage. It shows that America is nurturing a deadly enemy. It shows that the American soft-soaping and worse of Saudi Arabia makes a mockery of its ‘war on terror’. It shows that the claim that there are only a few ‘Islamic extremists’ is totally untrue; for while not all Muslims are Saudi-style Wahhabis, as James Woolsey says in his foreword:

‘Wahhabi and Islamist extremism today is the soil in which al Qaeda and its sister terrorist organizations are growing’.

Saudi influence in disseminating these Wahhabi doctrines round the world is vast, not least in Britain. What, one wonders,might a similar exercise uncover in British mosques?

Posted by melanie at February 1, 2005