WEST
CONTINUES RESPONDING IMPULSIVELY RATHER THAN STRATEGICALLY
AMERICA'S leading SUNNI ally has
been propagating a violent, sectarian religious ideology long before ISIS came
on the scene.
After the carnage in PARIS,
WESTERN governments turned immediately to debating the usual tactics for
“bringing the terrorists to justice.” Should we employ drone strikes, they
wonder? Boots on the ground? Police?
The much more important matter,
however, is identifying and stopping the source of the nihilism, misogyny, and
sectarian animus that’s found fertile breeding grounds in the civil wars of the
MIDDLE EAST. Unless the source is addressed, there will be an endless supply of
terrorists wreaking havoc. And we in the WEST will continue wringing our hands
and responding impulsively rather than strategically.
While virtually all ISLAMIC scholars
dispute the theological soundness of the ISIS ideology, the group’s roots lie
in fundamentalist SUNNI ISLAM, specifically the WAHHABI strain officially
espoused by SAUDI ARABIA — the USA’s “ally” — which views SHIITES as apostates
and seeks to turn ISLAMIC societies back to an intolerant (and imagined)
medieval past where women are stoned for adultery and reporters are lashed.
Since the 1970s, the SAUDI government and its allied religious establishment
have exported their extremist version of SUNNI ISLAM around the world — all
financed by their oil money.
Background
Information: ORIGINS OF WAHHABISM
POLITICAL
PACT BETWEEN THE HOUSE OF SAUD AND THE WAHHABISTS
SAUDI
MONEY FINANCED THE PAKISTANI MADRASSAS – CULTIVATING YOUNG MEN TO HATE THE
WEST
During the 1970s and ‘80s, SAUDI
ARABIA financed PAKISTAN’S ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) in support of the
anti-SOVIET insurgents in AFGHANISTAN that became the TALIBAN. The U.S. matched
the SAUDI contribution to ISI, but abdicated its responsibility to see where
the money was going. Anxious to avoid overt provocation of the SOVIETS,
WASHINGTON allowed PAKISTAN and SAUDI ARABIA to choose the recipients of AMERICAN
taxpayer dollars, and these were the most fundamentalist insurgent factions —
like the HAQQANI network, which plagues AFGHANISTAN even today and has targeted
AMERICAN soldiers serving there.
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| Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism) |
SAUDI money financed the PAKISTANI
MADRASSAS that provided the only available “schooling” for a generation of
young AFGHAN male refugees. In camps devoid of women, the extreme separation of
the sexes resulted in young males detached from any experience of women or
family life. They were taught to memorize the KORAN (in ARABIC, having no idea
what it said), use weapons, and hate the WEST. They were otherwise illiterate
about both secular subjects and ISLAMIC jurisprudence.
Since the 1990s, SAUDI money has
similarly financed mosques and WAHHABI-inspired teaching throughout the BALKANS
as well, contributing to the instability of that region.
Background
Information: WAHHABISM IN EUROPE
WAHHABISM
AT THE DOORSTEPS OF EUROPE
CONNECTION
BETWEEN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE PARIS BOMBINGS?
It appears that the connection
between SAUDI ARABIA and the PARIS bombings is even more direct. Many of the
plotters came from the MOLENBEEK neighborhood in BRUSSELS. In the 1970s, SAUDI
ARABIA and other GULF countries funded WAHHABI religious schools there,
displacing or taking over the more moderate mosques founded by the TURKISH and MOROCCAN
immigrants in the district and helping to thwart their children’s potential for
cultural integration.
ISIS’ extreme misogynistic
worldview was starkly on display in its statement after the PARIS massacre. It
referred to a “profligate prostitution party” at the BATACLAN Conference
Center. This should be a red flag. The equation of women out to a concert and
prostitution reflects the same mindset animating the SAUDI insistence that
women cannot drive, cannot leave the house unless escorted by a male relative,
and must be covered head to toe. (In fact, one could argue there’s an
insufficiently explored thread of distorted sexuality in hardline WAHHABI
belief and practice.)
Background
Information: SAUDI ARABIA
THE
KINGDOM OF WAHHABISM AND WARMONGERING
The USA’s “ally’s” religiously
mandated intolerance was displayed to the world in the hatred that we witnessed
on Nov. 13th, with hundreds dead and many more maimed in LEBANON and PARIS. Why
do we put up with this aggressive medieval proselytizing from SAUDI ARABIA?
With allies like this, who needs enemies?
THE
OIL EQUATION
Well, the simple answer is oil: The
USA has chosen to buy oil from SAUDI ARABIA and boycott the SHIITE IRANIAN source.
But cheap oil may have been
purchased too dearly when the mayhem in the MIDDLE EAST and now EUROPE is the
result. Accepting higher oil prices in the interests of containing SUNNI nihilism
could be a worthwhile bargain.
BRITISH
GEOPOLITICS ONCE AGAIN CAUSED HAVOC
BRITISH
WHEELING AND DEALING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The USA also boxed itself in
diplomatically by a generation of demonizing and isolating IRAN, the major SHIITE
power, leaving no counterweight to the SAUDI SUNNI ideology. Yes, they cite the
1979 takeover of the AMERICAN embassy in TEHRAN, but forget that IRANIAN ANTI-AMERICAN
sentiment was a predictable result of the CIA overthrowing the elected and more
or less democratic government of Prime Minister MOSSADEGH in 1953.
(The U.S. acted at a BRITISH request; they
wanted to control IRANIAN oil and MOSSADEGH nationalized it. An eerie similar
fate faced former LIBYAN leader MUAMMAR GADDAFI when he wanted to nationalized
oil production
Background
Information:
AFTER
GADDAFI'S HINT OF NATIONALIZATION OF LIBYA'S OIL RESOURCES HE WAS ELIMINATED
WAS
LIBYA GETTING A TOO POWERFUL PLAYER IN AFRICA FOR WESTERN ENTITIES?
WASHINGTON’S
AL QAEDA ALLY NOW LEADING ISIS IN LIBYA
POINTLESS
TO APPLY TACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST WHILE SAUDI
ARABIA IS FREE TO (ALMOST LITERALLY) POUR OIL ON THE FIRES.
The USA condemned IRAN to a
generation of brutal dictatorship under the SHAH’S notorious secret police.
Should the US have been surprised when the revolution that came in 1979 brought
payback to the AMERICANS?
While IRAN does indeed support
violence in other countries, its efforts seem rationally related to political
objectives (supporting HEZBOLLAH against ISRAEL, and ASSAD as a fellow SHIITE
power) and might be resolved as such. They have thus far not included assaults on
uninvolved civilians and barbarism for its own sake.
So what to do at this point? The
USA has leverage over SAUDI ARABIA if it choose to use it. Stop supplying
weapons — which are currently being used to attack SHIITE factions in YEMEN —
and insist that SAUDI ARABIA cease financing fundamentalists throughout AFGHANISTAN,
PAKISTAN, SYRIA, and the BALKANS. It’s pointless to apply tactical solutions to
the problems of the MIDDLE EAST while SAUDI ARABIA is free to (almost
literally) pour oil on the fires.
Adapted by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from the
original article written by Inge Fryklund
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