From FDD, with thanks to Charles Martel:
Bipartisan Letter Sent in Anticipation of March 15th Deadline for State Dept. to Act on Saudi Religious Freedom ViolationsToday, Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) were joined by thirteen colleagues from both sides of the aisle in sending a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice to express appreciation for the Department of State's 2004 designation of Saudi Arabia as a "country of particular concern" (CPC) for its systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom. The Senators also expressed a strong desire to see the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia defined more clearly. This letter was sent in anticipation of the March 15 deadline for the State Department to act on their own 2004 designation of Saudi Arabia as a severe violator of religious freedom as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Sen. Schumer said, "It is a massive contradiction that a country we call an ally could be both so regressive in their own country and so brazen in its propagation of anti-American, anti-women, anti-Semitic books, publications, and practices. American security is undermined as the Saudi government exports these hateful commodities to millions beyond its borders, planting the seeds for new generations of terrorists and totalitarian Wahhabi leaders."
"This report raises some disturbing concerns about the spread of extremist materials in American mosques and Islamic centers," Senator Collins said. "If we are going to win the war on terrorism, these types of actions cannot be tolerated. It is important that the Saudi Arabian government join us in this fight and stop supporting the spread of ideologies that promote hatred and intolerance around the world."
Don't get your hopes up about that, Senator.
The Schumer-Collins bi-partisan letter refers in part to the Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom report which gathered vast amounts of Saudi government publications on the ideology of hate in America, as well as Saudi intolerance towards its own citizens:· Samples of over 200 books and other publications from American mosques used to educate its members that preach a "Nazi-like hatred for Jews" and "promote contempt for the United States because it is ruled by legislated civil law rather than by totalitarian Wahhabi-style Islamic law."
· One such document, distributed through the Saudi Arabian Embassy's Cultural Dept. in Washington, is a fatwa against the taking of American citizenship by Muslims and thereby "acquiescing to their infidelity and accepting all their erroneous ways."
· The report explicitly concludes that Saudi Arabia is the state most responsible for the propagation of these publications within our borders and that these publications are often official publications of a Saudi ministry or distributed by the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C. to mosques and Islamic centers in American cities.
· Recent municipal elections completely shut women out of the process. Saudi Arabia severely limits the freedom of movement of women and discriminates against women in education, employment, access to healthcare, marriage, and inheritance.The Senators urge Sec. Rice to "to persuade the Saudi Arabian government to work with the United States in curtailing their distribution ... and call for specific actions taken to condemn and curtail Saudi Arabian support for extremist ideology, promote equality and reform within Saudi Arabia, and to clearly outline a broad based foreign policy strategy that will support these goals."
The Schumer-Collins letter calls for the State Department "to respond decisively to Saudi support for extremist religious ideologies" as required by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for countries found to be severe violators of religious freedom, by:
· Identifying Saudi agencies and officials responsible for violations of religious freedom and issuing a proclamation barring Saudi officials who propagate hateful and intolerant ideology from entering the U.S.;
· Issuing a demarche urging the government of Saudi Arabia to cease support for activities throughout the world that explicitly promote hate and human rights violations;
· Ordering the heads of U.S. agencies not to issue licenses or authorities for the export of items on the Commerce Control List of dual-use items to an agency or instrument of the government of Saudi Arabia that is responsible for committing particularly severe violations of religious freedom;
· Raise concerns at the highest levels with the government of Saudi Arabia regarding the ongoing and repeated violations of internationally recognized human rights and to develop specific initiatives to advance human rights, including the rights of women, religious freedom, and the rule of law.The letter concluded, "Saudi Arabia's efforts to export militant Wahhabi ideology throughout the world inflame the type of anti-American sentiments that lie behind the potential of terrorist attacks that continue to be the greatest threat to our national security. Therefore, it is essential that Saudi Arabia be held accountable for its support of radical Islamic ideology."
The Senators signing the letter are:
Schumer, Collins, Bayh, Chambliss, Smith, Brownback, Ensign, Lautenberg, Coleman, Wyden, Dodd, Kohl, Nelson (NE), Dorgan, and Santorum.
Click here to view letter.
Why haven't they all signed?
I DEMAND THAT THE SAUDI EMBASSY CEASE PROPAGATION OF RELIGIOUS MATERIAL IMMEDIATELY. This is clearly unconstitutional as it is a violation between the separation of church and state. The Saudi diplomatic corps are sanctioned by and operating under the auspices of the US State Department and hence must adhere to the US Constitution's 1st Amendment. Maybe we could get the defenders of freedom, the upholders of our constitutional rights, the glorious ACLU to file a lawsuit on Jihad Watch's behalf? No seriously, Robert do you know of anyone that has the expertise to examine my view more thoroughly?
CGW said I should post this in a few places??
so here it is?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/005303.php#comments
Posted by: nippon at March 12, 2005 12:51 PM
You get the Gold Star for the Day!!
Gary see what you started ??
Some people are blind for their nose??
As I told CGW I would rather have an enemy in front then on my 6??
If we look at history we will find that without Russia we would not have won WW2 we had let Germany advance to far before we got in the WAR??
Now ask yourself did we like what Russia did to their own people? No and I would go as far as to say HELL No?
But we got them to see the threat was against them too!! and did Fight with them and when the war was over and we had won we both went to our corners?
Now spiting in Peoples faces will only make them your enemys and prove what they think of you??
If a KKK member or Neo Nazi falls and say breaks his neck does he ask who the surgen is or will he deal with it??
Does the Doctor not treat the person before he knows what tribe he comes from??
So sad that geiff likes to shoot his wad early??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to Stay the course to Destroy ALL islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen
Posted by: Catherine at March 14, 2005 07:14 PM
you ask what Nipon said??
Kelley,
Although I cannot speak for Catherine, she's not Antisemitic.
Look at her statements:
1."makes you wonder why none of them talked about the Black mulsums??"
Well, my interpretation:
It's an ironic statement concerning the irrational logic of white supremacists that they only blame the jews.
2."It would be smart to educate these people on the Threat and when the fighting starts fight together when we win then go back to our own corners and figure what to do as we have been for years???"
My interpretation she wants to say: What silly morons they are that they don't recognize that there's no Zionist plot but rather a jihad front in every part of the world.
I think shangalla is right. Catherine often spoke about judeo-christian values she's just a bit confusing.
Posted by: nippon at March 12, 2005 12:51 PM
Lots of luck, what chance do we have when our own President,supposedly the Commander in Chief in the war on terrorism is himself business partners and in bed with the Saudis.
Prince Bandar (known affectionately to the family as Bandar Bush) and Prince Abudllah are privileged guests at Crawford.Prince Bandar has slept 14 times in the Lincoln bed room.
Bandar has access to the Whitehouse that makes other ambassadors and heads of state slather in jealousy, and then there is the business relationship between the Bush Family and the Saudi Bin Ladens in the Carlyle Group.
Not to mention the expose by Paul Unger of the HOuse of Bush House of Saud:The Secret Relationship between the worlds two most powerful dynasties.
Then there is Dick Cheney and his Haliburton, who has business relationships with the Saudis, OPEC, and which is now embroiled in a scandal (which is being kept back from the public) aboutno bid contract in Iraq, involving their oil fields and construction in which hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have been stolen (misappropriated).
If this was a Gore or a Kerry instead of Bush/Cheney, in bed with the Saudis, you guys, Drudge, Limbaugh and every conservative in the country from bloggers to Heritage Foundation would be screaming for their heads.
15 Senators? That's it?
I praise these 15, and feel the need to ask about the rest not joining this campaign.
If we know what the Saudis are truly about, then they sure as hell do too. So, what is the rest of Congress doing about it?
Until the Saudi influence is out of America, and that damn Mexican border is secured, this Government has failed to make this nation safer, and shouldn't try to bullshit the American people by saying otherwise.
To requote Hugh,
WHY HAVN'T THEY ALL SIGNED ???????
Don't want to miss out on .....funding for the next election ?
Afraid of the strength of the arab/muslim vote ?
Wouldn't like to upset America's 'good' friends, the saudis ?
Asleep at the switch ?
Dead from the neck up ?
Al Gore and the Saudis:
http://www.saudiembassy.net/1997News/News/UsrDetail.asp?cIndex=3916
'Terrorist Disneyland'~ how terrorism was ignored in Afghanistan in the 90s:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2003-July/027098.html
I agree, why have'nt they all signed?
At the same time I find it interesting that they want the relationship between America and Saudi defined. Otherwards, "why in the hell do we call these guys allies?". Is'nt it strange that our own Senators cannot figure out why we have a relationship with this country. The only one that has a true knowledge of the relationship is the State Department. And if I were these Senators I would not expect to get the truth or a fair American representation from the State Department.
The Saudi's are the guys funding Wahabbism. They are the most pricipal one individual country that has started this war.
Great quote "how can you win a war, when you cannot declare the enemy?" Abraham Lincoln.
Now is your chance Senators.....who is the enemy?
"Why haven't they all signed?"
Posted by: Hugh at March 15, 2005 10:48 AM
Good question, Hugh, and it's obviously hitting a lot of buttons.
Furthermore, Hugh's question makes my post less OT than I thought it was going to be; this is it:
Did you all see the Fox interview this morning featuring Paul Sperry, author of "Infiltration"? From Sperry's comments, the book seems right up our ally, and possibly an excellent resource.
It discusses the massive infiltration at all levels of government by jihadists.
We've just ordered it, and will try to pass along an evaluation as soon as possible.
Well, let's give Schumer and those Dems a pat on the back for once!
How many knew of this letter??
and would it do any good??
they have started tak-en a tougher stand with the saudis??
How may of you have started cutting back on your fule comsumption??
If you have bills going to D.C. they might be a little late??
March 15, 2005
http://www.beecy.net/frank/
IT’S A LONG ONE BUT A GOOD READ!!!!!
Saudis must have taken a little action because they had a shoot out ??
100 MS13 arrested??
56 reporters around the world have been killed in 2004 but only half of them were killed in Iraq where were the rest killed??
Huge anti- Syrian protest bigger than the one last week-end??
New book Paul Sperry ”Infiltration” looks good?? Glad someone finally wrote it!!
After all would we have hired nazi’s during WW2 for translators and Intel agents?? PC run amuck!!!
Trencreado said that if another Islamic Terrorist attack comes and we find out they came in illegal then all the dead and injured will be on the heads of all the congress and all the senate and the President and he is right!! But he left out all them libs who fight against doing anything like ACLU and I am not letting off anyone who hires illegal’s for money this is their fault as well no matter what party they are from??
A good story to remember is the little Dutch boy and the dike??
Did the [mulsum] killer in Atlanta go to smith’s house as payment for the murder of her husband years ago[reward money]??? [mulsum] Monster called the reporter a civilian casualty?? And asked him where Linux sq was this is where the ICE agent was?? How would he have known where the house was could it be [his mother worked for the IRS] and today we have an anthrax letter to the IRS???
Did they drop the weapons charge against the [mulsum] killer because of the PC?? Because they would have to look at the woman who was 5’2” who’s gun he took? So if any woman was to transport a prisoner she would need help now that does not work with the = rights thing now does it?? Because this monster was a mulsum will they dig and report this or PC cover it up by saying nothing??
Will the [mulsum] killer tell the truth and turn over the plot? Turn in his own mother who worked for the IRS with access to address’s? People stay locked and loaded REMEMBER they pay MS13 and others to devert attion from being mussi[crime]?? Press will report random rape, shooting, gang?? All the whatever but what was it really>>
I think the worst one was in N.J. head found in parking lot death by suicide??????? Yes they did man CUTS OFF HIS OWN HEAD TO KILL HIM SELF?? Now I know he was a German but COME ON????
Bust in NY arrest 18 trying to import Russian shoulder fired grenade launchers?? NOW WHY WOULD ANY ONE WHANT THOSES??
ubl[YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY] niece back in the USA and once again anthrax??? Can we connect the dots? Remember her father in Paris is the guy with the perfume factory???
Heroin bust in Afghan over 2000 kilos of pure that is a hell of a lot of money out of the hands of Islamic Terrorist [now if people would stop paying them] GOOD JOB!!!
Why are we selling f16s to Pakistan again? They won’t even let us interview the monster kauhn?? Pakis say 8-10 mo ago they were close to ubl [YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY] but they let him get away? Well could they ck their side of Kashmir??? We see and know how he loves his snowy mountain walks??
Iraqis out protesting want all Jordanians out of Iraq! For killing the Iraqi People! This is a good sign but now they have to help find and kill these [Islamic terrorist] monsters who are killing their children after all they know who they are they have been living there all their life’s???
Islamic Terrorist kill an Iraqi child what monsters when will the Iraqi people help to get rid and kill these Islamic terrorist monsters??
Abbass is talking about letting Islamic terrorist go??
Ham-as says it will not join the pali government in July?? Is this not a good thing for the palis not have Islamic terrorist running their country??
This game is getting old won’t work any more the palis have to do what is right if they want their own state? I don’t think they will because they have been used by the Arabs for so long there are none left who know what is right??
Can they live as descent Free people with respect of their neighbors? I have my doughts I am beginning to think all mulsums are savages?? I keep waiting for them to prove me wrong but so far the wait is long and lonely???
Man in England attacked by some monster with a hatchet and people just stood and did nothing?? Was this an Islamic Terrorist??
God Bless the Countries who have Heros Amen
Pity the countries who needs them??
Engineer with the big dig in MASS says he can no longer vouch for the safety of the tunnel??
Weak showing of pro-Syrian protest today in Lebanon??
Greenspan approves of privet accounts for SS but says congress must also take other steps as well??
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/13/181939.shtml
CIA: Egyptian Help Key to Iraqi Chemical Weapons
NewsMax.com Wires
Monday, March 14, 2005
NEW YORK - Egypt secretly supplied crucial help - both technology and expert manpower -- to the chemical weapons program of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s, U.S. arms investigators have found.
NO SAY IT AINT SO??
The Cairo government rejected those earlier allegations, and Egypt's Washington embassy reiterated that denial when asked by The Associated Press about the CIA report. But in AP interviews, United Nations arms inspectors who scoured Iraq's files and facilities in the 1990s corroborated the U.S. finding.
AN AINT IT AN EGYPTIAN WHO IS THE HEAD OF?? FOR THE UN?? IT’S GETTING DEEP ??
, Egypt has long been believed to possess chemical weapons. Experts say there's strong evidence Egyptian warplanes repeatedly used mustard-gas bombs against royalist forces during Cairo's intervention in the Yemen civil war of the 1960s
AINT THAT MULSUMS KILLING MULSUMS???
The Duelfer report says that in the mid-1980s Baghdad had invited Egyptian chemical weapons experts to Iraq to help with production of sarin, a nerve agent that when inhaled can produce symptoms within seconds - convulsions, paralysis, respiratory failure and possibly death.
OH NO??
LETS GET OFF PAGE FOR A MONMENT??
Newsmax.com
Radioactive Missiles Found In Iraq
Charles R. Smith
Tuesday, Mar. 9, 2004
U.S. Army troops operating at a former Iraqi air base recently made a startling discovery: Russian made missiles marked with radioactive warning signs.
Army bomb disposal troops confirmed using Geiger counters that the missiles are indeed radioactive.
AND THEN OF COURSE THERE IS THIS??
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Confessions of Al-Qaida Suspects Who Allegedly Planned Attacks Aired
NewsMax Wires
Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2004
AMMAN, Jordan - Al-Qaida plotted bomb and poison gas attacks against the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Jordan, suspects confessed in a videotape that aired Monday on Jordanian state television. A commentator said the plotters hoped to kill 80,000 people.
BUT OF COURSE THAT IS STILL NOT PROFF FOR SOME LETS LOOK IN IRAQ??
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/002427.php
July 07, 2004
A major achievement: US removes 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq
Here are 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material that won't find their way into dirty bombs detonated in New York City. From the BBC, with thanks to Richard:
BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:39 p.m. EDT
Spinning the Sarin
Tests confirm that artillery shell that blew up in Iraq did indeed contain sarin--between three quarts' and a gallon's worth, Fox News reports. The New York Times buries the story on page 11 (something about weddings in Massachusetts led the front page, bizarrely enough), and it's shot through with pro-Saddam spin:
The discovery of the sarin-filled shell appears to offer some of the most substantial evidence to date that Mr. Hussein did not destroy all of the banned chemical agent, as he claimed before the war last year. It provides some solace, and possibly fresh leads, to the American teams that have been conducting an otherwise fruitless search for the weapons for more than a year.
Sarin Nerve Agent Bomb Explodes in Iraq
Monday May 17, 2004 4:01 PM
By CHRIS TORCHIA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. Two people were treated for ``minor exposure,'' but no serious injuries were reported.
``The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found,'' said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq. ``The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy.
``A detonation occurred before the IED could be rendered inoperable. This produced a very small dispersal of agent,'' he said.
NOW FOR BACK TO TOADYS STORY??
AND WE MUST REMEMBER GEN. SANCHEZ WAS PART OF KOSOVO AND ALSO CHARGED WITH WAR CRIME ALONG WITH W.CLARK AND BILL CLINTON??
"We were aware from back in 1991 that there was a link between Iraq and Egypt on chemical weapons," said Ron G. Manley of Britain, a former senior U.N. adviser on chemical weapons. He said the warhead inserts, known as an Egyptian design, were an early clue.
OH MY?? NO WONDER WE GOT NO HELP FROM THE UN LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER COVER YOUR OWN ASS GOING ON??
This specialist, who spoke with AP on this "very sensitive matter" on condition he not be named, said much has yet to be made public about Egyptian-Iraqi dealings on chemical weapons.
"It represents a small piece of a long history of cooperation," he said of the Duelfer disclosures.
The U.N. inspectors never publicly divulged the Cairo connection, in keeping with a policy of not naming companies and countries that helped Iraq,
OH MY DIMMI TAX MUST STOP!!!
Iraq's actions violated the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning use of chemical weapons, but Egyptian aid, strictly speaking, would not have been a violation, said a leading scholar in this field, Jonathan Tucker of California's Monterey Institute of International Studies
HUMMM?? HE DON’T THINK LIKE I DO?? SEAMS IF YOU ARE HOLDING THE ROPE TO HANG THE MAN YOU IS GULITY TOO!!!
NOW ALL THE CAPS ARE MINE!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURSE TO VICTORY TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT AND LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
PS
World Com friend of Bill going to Jail??
Moore distorts Bush Saudi Ties
Bush and Prince Bandar
Dave Kopel:
Just in case you thought someone had an original thought..... If they did, it would die from loneliness...
Thank you, Bar. Bush's ties are well known enough. Now if the Left would just admit its own ties to the Saudis, we could lay this argument to rest.
Too bad they don't see it as being a problem when their guys are involved.
15 signed.
The rest is on the take.
What else you want to know?