Al-Jazeera tells us that the Saudi government has suspended 900 imams for "negligence." (Thanks to "Allah" for the link.)
The imams were suspended for preaching violent jihad:
After secretly monitoring thousands of sermons over the past few months, ministry spokesman Salih al-Sadlan confirmed the suspensions due to "various flaws and shortcomings" in what imams told mosque-goers.A professor of law at Riyadh's Imam Muhammad bin Saud University, al-Sadlan said the advisory committee would hold seminars in every region of the kingdom to correct "frequent mistakes" in Friday sermons. . . .
It was not clear when the Islamic officials were suspended, but the government has tried to rein in those who refuse to toe a moderate line. . . .
Authorities also suspended 1357 religious officials from their duties last year.It also ordered them to undergo training in accordance with a programme introduced by the Islamic affairs minister to boost the performance of mosque employees.
Those officially suspended from duties included 517 imams, 90 Friday preachers and 750 callers to prayer.They were all instructed to undergo "theological training" to be able to work more efficiently at mosques.
Saudi Arabia employs about 80,000 people - including part-time preachers - at tens of thousands of mosques run by the government.
The kingdom's religious establishment has come under fire, particularly in the US, for allegedly fuelling the kind of thinking that led to the 11 September 2001 attacks, in which 15 of 19 presumed hijackers were Saudi.
Let's see. 900 imams this year, 517 last year, plus 840 others. That's around 2200 people. Out of 80,000. I guess it really is a tiny minority of extremists -- unless, of course, others are in place who are teaching the same things, which seems likely.
Pure lip service......nothing more.
Don't hold your breath....and what a shame it is that Islam will continue to be shoved in everyone's faces until the day comes when the world has enough and smacks the entire cult into the stone age where it belongs.
The Western Left has united with the Islamic Fascists - which of course puts those who are both "left" and "Jewish" in a quandry.
As I have said before, Islam has hijacked the Left! and the Left is not going to win here - they are being used as the useful idiots and puppets by the Islamic Fascists.
jihan
Who would want their own nation overrun by fanatics? I know I sure don't.
Probably suspended because they weren't violent enough. If our pastors preached the destruction of islam and the murder of muslims from the pulpits there would be cries of "foul" and "religious intolerance" from the UN and Eurabia. With them they get a paid vacation and a wink. Freedom of religion does not give satanists the right to murder people as human sacrifices in their rituals. So why should we allow muslim imams to preach violence?
The problem that we have in the West in the religious war that we are in, is that we are unable to challenge an ideology that masquerades as a religion. This is due to historical circumstances of the West. The religious wars of the past, are still a painful memory, to go through yet again. So we ignore or avert our eyes to an existential threat to Western civilisation.
Islam as a fascist ideology has very shrewdly disguised itself as a religion. In some ways it is like the AIDS virus, that mimics or hides within the human cell, thus eluding the body's immune system. We need to find a cure for this form of AIDS that does not require a genocidal response against the enemy.
Radical Islam preaches violent jihad against the United States, Israel, and the West. Radical Islam has declared war on Judeo-Christian Civilization. The American government needs to recognize that it is indeed at war with Islam, and that American purchases of Saudi Arabian and other Middle Eastern energy resources indirectly finance the terrorist organizations warring against us. We are helping to foot the bill for those who wish to destroy America and the American way of life.