posted on February 26, 2003 08:50:27 AM new
I was listening to Coast To Coast AM last night and George Noory had a guest named Craig Winn. Mr Winn is an expert on terrorism and laid out the true situation in the Middle East and who our true enemy is there.
I'll put some excerpts here, but to really get informed, you'll have read the whole interviews he had with some of the Muslims.
It really appears our real enemy is SAUDI ARABIA. If so, I'm sure our presence in Iraq will be a long-term one so that we can keep an eye on them.
Here you go........(be sure to click on the "Frontline" interview)
Tonight's guest Craig Winn, an authority on terrorism and the Middle East, has looked at the roots of al-Qaeda. The term Wahhabism has been used to describe the religious sect of Islam that may have influenced the ideology of such groups as al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Wahhabism was a movement that began in the mid-18th century. It called for a renewal of the Muslim spirit via a cleansing of the morals, and a cease to any changes in Islam. Started by Muhammed bin Abd al-Wahhab, the movement is closely tied to the development of Saudi Arabia.
In fact Ali Al-Ahmed, a Muslim who grew up in Saudi Arabia told Frontline that their school curriculum teaches that there are the chosen ones (Wahhabis) who will go to heaven and all the rest including other Muslims, Jews and Christians. Those people are "supposed to be hated, to be persecuted, even killed…Bin Laden learned this in Saudi Arabia. He didn't learn it on the moon." said Al-Ahmed."
"Wahhabism's explosive growth began in the 1970s when Saudi charities started funding Wahhabi schools (madrassas) and mosques from Islamabad to Culver City, California."
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parts of interview with Muslims who are experts:
Wahhabism is sort of an extreme orthodoxy that historically has not been shared by a majority of Muslims, particularly nobody outside of the Arabian Peninsula.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Is there a connection between the fundamentalism of the Taliban and the fundamentalism of the Wahhabi?"
The connection has been growing very, very strong in the past 20 years, and particularly in the past ten years.
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"You're saying that the official government version of Islam inspired what happened on Sept. 11?"
"Yes, I am saying that. Because the hijackers, 15 hijackers who are Saudis, they studied this thinking -- destructive thinking -- in Saudi Arabia. They spent a few months in Afghanistan. But they lived their life, they studied this in government mosques. They studied this kind of curriculum that I talked to you about. ... Government curriculum inspired what happened in New York."
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"You mean they're paid by the government?"
Yes, they are. The religious institution in Saudi Arabia is paid and hired and chosen by the government.
"So there's no separation of church and state?"
No separation between the Salafi institution and the Saudi government.
'You say "Salafi institution." What does that mean?'
Salafi is an understanding of Islam which starts in Saudi Arabia 200 years ago. And it is the official sect in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government adopts the Salafi understanding of Islam and implement it on all Saudis.
"Salafi to us is what we call Wahhabi? Is that the same thing?"
Yes. Salafi is what you call in the West Wahhabi."
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I could go on and on, but be sure and click into the Frontline interview and then to the different "Read the Full Interview" buttons for the interviews with the different Muslim experts.
This gentleman says that 95% of Muslims ARE NOT Wahhabis. As such they consider them enemies just like the Christians and Jews.
I hope everyone is in this for the long haul,
it's not going to be a ride in the park.
(And why on earth do we support these people by buying their oil ??)
[ edited by bones21 on Feb 26, 2003 08:55 AM ]
[ edited by bones21 on Feb 26, 2003 12:07 PM ]
posted on February 26, 2003 09:14:21 AM new
Thanks Bones, caught the beginning of it and fell asleep, but thankfully I am registered with streamlink and can hear previous programs anytime.
Always kinda had that suspicion about the Saudis
I did hear the guest talk about thoroughly studying the Koran, and came up with a lot of stuff people really don't realize.
Something like 'your worse than the infidel, if you do not go get rid of the infidel' or something like that.
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posted on February 26, 2003 11:49:52 AM new
I've been saying on here for over a year now that Saudi Arabia is the cause of our and Israel's woes. That Saudi Arabia has plans for world conquest through their hysterical version of Fundamentalist Islam by taking over countries one by one and then toppling the governments and putting an Iranian-type of theocracy in. I've also been telling everyone to forget Iraq and that we should be going after Saudi Arabia and that the best way to do that is to switch to some other type of fuel and lubrication systems for our machines and to spread that to the rest of the world.
posted on February 26, 2003 04:12:16 PM new
If the book, "Tea With Terrorists", which is the "explosive best-seller", written by Mr. Craig Winn is so full of the truth, why is it listed on it's sales page as "Fiction"??..just asking...
It mentioned he wrote a book on terrorism.
I don't know anything about the book, I would guess it would be similar to a Tom Clancy novel. But these interviews were real, and conducted with real live Muslims with credentials....they are not fictional.
I am registered with streamlink and can hear previous programs anytime.