Now where did they get this idea? Haven’t they been listening to Barack Obama and David Cameron, the Pope of Rome and the Archbishop of Brisbane, who tell them that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, and to all the Muslim groups in the West who have condemned (in vague, non-specific terms) the Islamic State? Is the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places, dedicated to implementing Islam in every detail of life, somehow filled with misunderstanders of Islam? What an odd turn of events! How could it possibly have come about?
“92% of Saudi’s believe that ‘IS(IS) conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law’ – Poll,” Muslim Statistics, August 24, 2014:
Saudi poll to reveal public’s level of sympathy for IS
The Sakina Campaign plans to carry out a scientific survey to determine the position of the Saudi public on the “caliphate” announced by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. This comes after the results of an opinion poll of Saudis were released on social networking sites, claiming that 92% of the target group believes that “IS conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law.” Observers believe that in the current period, it is most important to “focus on the roots of extremism and to address and fight it.”
The Saudi Sakina campaign plans to conduct a survey to determine the extent to which the Saudi public sympathizes with the Islamic State and its recent declaration of a caliphate.
Author Abdullah al-Duhailan, Rahma Thiab, Shaden al-Hayek
July 22, 2014, Al-HayatTranslator(s) Tyler Huffman
Original Article اقرا المقال الأصلي باللغة العربية
Meanwhile, Saudi families refused to hold mourning gatherings for their sons who were killed in troubled places outside of the kingdom. The “confusion” that was sparked by IS’ recent expansion saw the proliferation of websites selling shirts carrying slogans that called for jihad and glorified IS. Advisory Committee member Sheikh Abdullah al-Suwailem refused to classify those affiliated with terrorist groups as “criminals,” claiming that pressure had led them to join these groups in the absence of guidance.
Some of the families of those killed fighting outside of Saudi Arabia expressed their “joy,” refusing to show grief over the deaths of their sons. Preachers and sheikhs considered this ideology “the reason for terrorism,” saying, “It harms the reputation of the Islamic religion.” They stressed that those who go to these places of conflict are in violation of the religious authority, which must be followed. They therefore concluded that their deaths are not a form of martyrdom, as their families think. The families are overcome with emotion and distribute sweets and refuse to mourn, show sadness or cry, considering those killed to be martyrs.
Abdul Moneim al-Mushawwah, the director of the Sakina Campaign, which operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da’wah and Guidance in Saudi Arabia, told Al-Hayat: “In the coming period, the campaign plans to work on a manual survey, through which we can determine the extent to which the Saudi public sympathizes with what happened recently in Iraq, namely the declaration of the caliphate.” He added: “This survey will target a specific segment in a particular time period, ranging between one and two months. It will be supervised by an academic to meet the required conditions.”
In a related context, Sheikh Abdullah al-Suwailem, another Advisory Committee member, refused to classify those affiliated with terrorist groups such as IS and Jahbat al-Nusra as criminals. Suwailem told Al-Hayat: “The youth are languishing under various pressures, including some that are legitimate and brave. And excess and pressure are realities experienced by the youth, with little direction.” He added: “We do not classify the youth affiliated with these groups as criminals. If we do this, we prejudice them and make them our adversaries.”
“We must confront arguments with arguments, evidence with evidence. [We should] provide our youth with correct guidance, not criminalize them, so as to not further inflame the issue,” he noted.
On the other hand, shirts with phrases calling for jihad and photos glorifying IS and extremist currents and calling for fighting were promoted on Internet sites and on the social media pages of terrorist organizations. The spokesman for Saudi customs, Issa al-Issa, said: “The importation of clothing requires a commercial registration that lists the activity of clothing trade. As for controls on clothing imports, [any imports] must conform to adopted standards. The customs authority takes a sample and sends it to registered laboratories to report on the extent to which it complies with specifications. Another stipulation is that [the clothing] does not have inappropriate phrases or images that contradict Islamic law.”
Angemon says
Doesn’t the IS consider the Saudis to be munāfiqūn? Isn’t Saudi Arabia near the top of IS’s “to be conquered” list? Sucks to be the Saudi king…
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Sucks to be the Saudi king…
Oh, but not too long ago it musta felt so gooood when he had the President of the United States deeply bowing in respect to him.
John C. Barile says
Warped all the way through. Doctrines of demons. Islam has a deep, dark void at its center. Wahhabism is rotten to the core. Islamy is infamy.
voegelinian says
Its periphery is also diseased. The whole thing is bleak and black — lock, stock and barrel (notwithstanding beguilingly dazzling iznik tilery and carpetry…).
john spielman says
it also sucks to be an investor in all those high end shopping malls and gold / jewelry shops in all major Saudi cities. (not to mention the Meccan Clock Tower Hotel complex worth BILLIONS which will have to be razed to rubble as all Saudis are forced at the point of a gun to return to 7 th century nomadic life style of Muhammed by ISIS ( remember the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and their mass executions of the populace)
But I really wonder about the grave of Muhammed -will it be destroyed and what about the Kaaba and its black stone which is worshipped and fondled and kissed?
john spielman says
NSA spies : please take notice of this article and send it to your bosses in Washington, for ISIS wants to do the same to the USA and Europe
Beagle says
I think both will be destroyed. Kaabaoom for sure. The IS has announced that as a goal. If that idol is viewed as an idol, none of the history has a chance. The Saudis already bulldoze most early Islamic history for the malls and highrises you mentioned.
blitz2b says
Angemon “Doesn’t the IS consider the Saudis to be munāfiqūn? Isn’t Saudi Arabia near the top of IS’s “to be conquered” list? Sucks to be the Saudi king…”
Not to worry, the POTUS who bowed down to him, will come to his rescue if ‘iS’ decided to attack the kingdom…
voegelinian says
When the time comes and the Kingdom is threatened, Obama and Kerry will flip a riyal — camel heads, we arm the King, camel tails, we arm the “freedom fighters”…
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
92%? Is sounds like the other 8% don’t know how to read. A tiny percentage, maybe one, are likely “mentally challenged” as is typical in any population, but then what about the other 7%?
Jaladhi says
Watch out saudi Arabia IS is coming to your country!! You have spread Islamic jihad in all parts of the world now reap the crop that sowed!!
Champ says
Poll: 92% of Saudis believe that Islamic State “conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law”
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Wow the numbers don’t lie! …but obama & company certainly do.
Max Publius says
The Islamic State is simply Saudi Arabia at war.
Saudi Arabia is simply the Islamic State at peace.
When an ex-Muslim can safely order a beer in Mecca, then you will have won, and the imams will have lost. Anything less means you’re still fighting those SOBs.
wes says
Never mind the harm to innocent people, worry about the reputation of Islam!
Publicly pray five times per day, but lie if it helps the reputation of Islam and kill a person who “insults Islam” by converting.
Islam is truly like whitewashed tombs.
duh_swami says
I agree with them. I don’t see where anything ISIS is doing would embarrass Allah.
Bezelel says
For some reason I started wondering if there is such a thing as a muslim psychiatrist.
Angemon says
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/uk-nhs-psychiatrist-is-leader-of-pro-sharia-islamic-supremacist-party
Angemon says
And, of course, this guy:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/fort-hood-shooter-a-licensed-psychiatrist
Apparently, joining the jihad is the cure for all ailments.
Bezelel says
I had forgotten hasan’s occupation, I never saw the other one’s article. Thank you for the links. Both are sort of Hannibal Lecter-ish. Now I’m wondering, have they ever read the DSM. Actually the thought of hasan providing treatment for our troops was so disgraceful it’s beyond words. That’s government healthcare for you. The very fabric of right and wrong is being torn to shreds.
bernie says
The bozo couldn’t even spell properly though, he wrote “defacate” (sic) instead of “defecate” in a letter to complain about his prison treatment. Where did he earn his psychiatry degree, anyhow?
Bezelel says
I can’t remember where but I do know we paid for it in more ways than one.
GP says
It’s called beheading, that is the Islamic version of psychiatry-cures all aberrant thinking and mental disorders
voegelinian says
But when other Muslims — particularly in the West — insist they don’t because IS is not “true” Islam, we must believe our dying eyes…
Islamisdeath says
That means the Saudi public will help ISIS topple the king that we have been propping up. Soon the king will be sans head.
Beagle says
This supports what I keep saying. The IS is not “surrounded by enemies” but tens of millions of potential recruits. Now our clueless administration is banking on Jordan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia to take the fight to the IS. All of them have Sunni populations in excess of 75%.
Basil the Hammer says
Beagle you are spot on. The Turks murdered or drove out all Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christians almost a hundred years ago and now the USA praises the Turks for being such a wonderful democracy. They were what ISIS is today ! Our politicians are feckless retards.
vlparker says
Somebody better tell General Wesley Clark. He said the other day that we need to turn to our allies, the Saudis, for help defeating the IS.
How do such fools rise so high in the US military?
enwhitenment says
And the press and politicians label us trouble making islamophobes and racists because we show resistance to the multitude of Saudi funded Islamic schools and mosques that are popping up everywhere like a fast food chain.
gravenimage says
Poll: 92% of Saudis believe that Islamic State “conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law”
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None of this should surprise—Saudi Arabia itself cuts off limbs for petty theft, oppresses Infidels and “other-sect” Muslims, and beheads women for daring to fall in love.
The only problem the Saudi monarch has with ISIS is that they are not the ones running the Caliphate themselves.
It seems that the Saudi “people” recognize that their is no ideological difference at all.
GP says
“92% of Saudis believe that Islamic State- IS conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law.”
Let’s see:
Murder-check, Rape-check, Beheadings-check, Bombings-check, Hatred of America and the West-check, Dedicated to the destruction of Israel-check, Committed to the slaughter of Jews (and everyone else that has a different view)-check. Yup all of the values of IS LAM seem to be held by the IS.
Sean says
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-isis-from-the-western-world/
Salah says
“IS conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law.”
Savagery. Nothing more, nothing less.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2011/07/woman-beheaded-in-saudi-arabia.html
Islofob IS-1 says
It will be quite a day, if, or better when, the call comes in for the United States to send in the troops, to protect the kingdom of saudi.
Remember 9-11.
The nineteen of 9-11 would of fit into ISIS perfectly, with no grease or shoe-horn required.
Is in not time, right now, to open up every drop of oil we can, in our national grounded supply?
Every drop, tap and ready to flow on demand.
Michael Copeland says
Mr. Cameron knows the relevant fact to relate:
It is the “Nothing-to-do-with-Islam” Islamic State.
It’s a terrorist entity, militant entity,
“Poisonous” ideological entity,
Warping and twisting,
Perverting and smearing and
Misunderstanding and misrepresenting,
A violent extremist and radical state,
He dubs it the “so-called” Caliphate.
Jay Boo says
92 % of leftists still wish to kiss Muslim butts while taking a selfie.
8 % of leftists don’t own a camera
go figure?
fair_dinkum says
and the 8% are now targets
kevin casserly says
clothing is tested in a laboratory ???
pongidae rex says
I hope our nukes are still in working order. We may be needing them…