Austrian MPs have voted to shut down the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue “following repeated criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.”
Saudi Arabia is certainly not the only Islamic country that is spreading its influence throughout the West under a banner of “dialogue” and “peace,” while routinely abusing the human rights of its citizens in the name of Islam. Turkey, Iran, and the Palestinian leadership do this also.
In addition to Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses is also another little noted but critical reason to close the Centre, and in fact other similar foreign-funded Centres with funding from Islamic states that claim to advance “interrelgious and intercultural dialogue.” Such centres are also often fronts for advancing the Sharia values of Salafi-promoting states, and they routinely use the “Islamophobia” subterfuge to do it.
Take for example, Georgetown University’s multi-million dollar funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The Centre “launched its new multi-year research project on Islamophobia” in 2015 called The Bridge Initiative, where the hateful Nathan Lean once served as Research Director. Lean, a supposed “dialogue” advocate, has called for a public uprising to overthrow Trump; and for an as-yet unknown reason, Lean deleted his outrageous tweets that revealed his “bizarre hatred obsession” and “Islamophobia”-wielding tactics. But those tweets were captured in a Jihad Watch exposé here, here and here, thanks to Andrew Harrod.
The Centre continues to aggressively promote the shutting down of the freedom of speech in its “Islamophobia” drives and maligning of truth-tellers using so-called “Factsheets.” On a positive note, Jihad Watch has just reported that the “Department of Education is going after U.S universities over supposed ties to foreign governments” and that “at the top of the list are Georgetown University and Texas A&M, which have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar.”
In another example, the Iranian embassy in Canada that was shut down by the former Conservative Government, after it was uncovered that Hamid Mohammadi, an Iranian official working as Cultural Counselor to the Embassy in Canada, was operating covertly as a regime operative. Iran was in fact “using its embassy in Canada to mobilize loyalists of Islamic Republic to infiltrate the Canadian Government and, some terrorism experts worry, attack the United States.”
The shutting down of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Austria is a good first step in recognizing the dissonance in what this organization claims to represent versus the facts regarding Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. As a next step beyond the hypocrisy, however, many other initiatives need to be scrutinized by Western authorities for their methodology (e.g. advancing the “Islamophobia” subterfuge) and leadership. Unfortunately, too many Western leaders have succumbed to dhimmitude in response to the Islamophobia/Sharia police, a result of the very effectiveness of such foreign institutions.
“Austria to shut down Saudi-backed interfaith centre”, The Local, June 13, 2019:
The Austrian foreign ministry said on Wednesday it would implement a vote by MPs on the topic of closing a controversial Saudi-funded centre. The facility was created for religious dialogue in the capital Vienna.
MPs voted on Wednesday to demand the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) be closed down following repeated criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
The latest vote was prompted by a recent case in which an 18-year-old was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged crimes committed when he was a child.
Austria’s foreign ministry said that it would comply with parliament’s decision and was “checking the necessary legal steps” in order to do so.
The centre would be closed in a way that “will not cause damage to Austria’s foreign policy interests and which is in line with international practice,” the ministry said in a statement.
The centre has been a periodic source of controversy since opening in 2012, with critics saying it offered the government in Riyadh a way to gloss over accusations of severe human rights violations.
In a statement on Wednesday KAICIID said it had “received the news of today’s parliamentary vote with concern”.
“KAICIID stands by its record in fostering dialogue all over the world. It should be judged on this record,” the statement said.
KAICIID said its “activities cannot… be identified with any particular state”.
The centre was opened with great pomp by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and senior figures from the world’s main religions.
Its founding treaty was signed by Austria, Spain and Saudi Arabia, with the Holy See participating as a founding observer.
Until recently the centre had always enjoyed a degree of political protection in Austria, particularly from the centre-right People’s Party (ÖVP) and its leader Sebastian Kurz.
But the collapse of Kurz’s government last month, and his subsequent removal as chancellor in a confidence vote, meant that other parties were able to join forces to vote for Wednesday’s motion on KAICIID…..
CRUSADER says
Remarkable!
J D S says
Dialogue, irreligious…a couple of Islamic propaganda words
J D S says
Oops…..should bev interreligious also should have said intercultural as well.
Frank Anderson says
JDS, a graphic illustration of the hypocritical taking of advantage over kowtowing suck up infidels trying to “reform” the un-reformable. Basic contract law exists among civilized people who impose on themselves an obligation that they can be trusted in order to have others be able to trust them has no application among a group that teaches, admires and practices lies and deception. All muslims are taught to lie and cheat. All are taught that they are superior and that all who are not muslims are inferior. So why care what inferiors think except to pacify them while plans and resources develop to cut their throats in conquest? Yet many still cling to the utterly false hope, the “delusion of reprieve” that a peaceful coexistence is possible with a group that lives only to conquer, kill and die. (“This life is misery-Next life is paradise.”) There were Jews who denied the Holocaust right up to the time their trains reached the death camps. Can’t we learn from their sacrifice?
Martin says
KAICIID on youtube
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/channel/UC1OLXWr_zK71qC6bv6wa8-Q/videos
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KAICIID Fellow Nourah Alhasawi on the Challenges and Benefits of IRD ( inter religious dialogue )
Nourah Alhasawi holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and specializes in Sunnah, the Prophet Mohammed`s biography, teachings and their documentation.
She is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Islamic Studies Department in Princess Noura Bent Abdurrahman University in Riyadh.
During her career, she held a number of positions such as Vice Dean for Students Affairs and Head of the Female Department of the “Awareness and Social rehabilitation Society”.
Nourah holds accreditation as a trainer from the International Academy for Training (Antrac) and is also an accredited trainer with the King Abdul-Aziz Centre for National Dialogue.
She has participated in many training-related activities such as program design, social work and specialized academic research.
Nourah is the author of Your Guide to Successful Dialogue among Civilizations, 🙂 🙂 🙂 published by the King Abdulaziz Centre for National Dialogue.
Her other published works include Evidence of a Sole Narrator of Hadeeth, The Life of Aisha, and The Marriage System in Arab Society Before and After Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKsRQj8BYw
Angemon says
“Nourah Alhasawi holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and specializes in Sunnah, the Prophet Mohammed`s biography, teachings and their documentation. ”
So she should know very well how rot islam is and how it (mis)treats women – and yet, she willingly follows it…
Brian O'Reilly says
They only have 407 subscribers…
gravenimage says
Yep.
Martin says
KAICIID – April 29th 2019 – Vienna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AzbcQ6TCAs
Angemon says
“ Saudi-backed interfaith centre”
“Interfaith”? Just exactly how many “faiths” are the Saudis allowed to be?…
Michael Copeland says
“It is unbelief (kufr) to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of formerly valid religions such as “Christianity” and “Judaism” are acceptable to Allah….”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, w4.
Walter Sieruk says
This above,top article starts of informing the reader the awful record of Saudi Arabia concerning human rights. Then it further explains more about” Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses.”
This may be seen concerning the basic human right of both girls and women in the Islamic nation. In many different ways ,Such as the murderous cruel brutal practice of”‘honor killing” Which actually has no “honor in it . Also FGM. .
It should not be forgotten that the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a kingdom of callous brutal misogyny of the most heinously heartless kind there is.
For only a few years ago in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught of fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire . In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils.
Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia in no friend of any Western nation which also includes Austria.
For Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.” [1]
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran.
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, page 106
CRUSADER says
http://www.ACTforAmerica.org/issues
Walter Sieruk says
Of course Saudi does not and will not respect human rights No matter how much it may pretend to.
For the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.
As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003 published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young men from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islaami Foundation.’ The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “
Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE , in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”
In addition to all this, in the book of the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS, by Robert Spencer on pages 333 through 337.Mr Spencer provides valid information of the subject of “ The Saudi involvement in September 11.”
So with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread , influence and infiltration of the Western nations ,this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of Austria or America or any other country of the West.
Frank Anderson says
Any “dialogue” with islam is a farce. The discussion will only amount to true Soviet style “What’s mine is mine; What’s yours is negotiable.” As islam as “delivered” 1400 years ago is “final, perfect, complete and unchangeable” they have nothing to offer sub-human infidels (kafirs) except time to get affairs in order before death or slavery. If you don’t understand this please read a few books by several authors to start.
Happy Father’s Day to my 8 fathers-by-choice who are no longer living. You continue through me.
CRUSADER says
It’s akin to arguing with a sociopath — as illustrated in Glazov’s “Jihadist Psychopath” — along with alignment with Alinsky / Marxist / Trotsky argumentation, denials, misleading, and plotting and character assassinations.
If only Islam and the Left could promote true fatherhood, but they either misrepresent it or they denigrate it.
Quite a set of days full of commemoration:
Anne Frank’s 90th birthday
President Trump’s 73rd birthday
USA Flag Day
Day for Fathers
Walter Sieruk says
Saudi Arabia is not an innocent nation and has no real regard for human rights.
This may be clearly seen by the fact that when it comes to the subject of promoting Islamic terrorism by setting up Muslim brainwashing centers in which impressionable Muslim youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of Quran based jihad violence with much killing of people who are not Muslim for the advancement of Islam. As the Quran instructs, for example 2:191., 5:33. 9:5,111,112,123 47:4,89.
One scholar, Brigitte Gabriel, who is an from the Middle East had in her book with the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED informs her readers on page 114. “Saudi Arabia is one of the leading financial contributors to Islamic terrorism worldwide. Part of that contribution is made by funding madrasas throughout the world and the brainwashing of Muslim children with intolerant teaching towards anything non-Muslim.”
Likewise, a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, in his book which has the title of THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM on page 353 reveals that “Saudi Arabia has spent millions on Islamic propaganda and on building madrassas.”
Furthermore, on the subject that there are Muslim mind control and mind programming places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Furthermore, those mind programming places also ingrain the outlandish absurd Koranic doctrine of a sex-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such a strange doctrine of a houris filled- place in found in the Koran in 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. Moreover, such Islamic mind programming centers are further explained about by the scholar Don Richardson in his book SECRETS OF THE KORAN which on pages 69,70. Informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At least forty million Muslim youth in the Muslim worlds’ religious schools, called madrasa, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran … These schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists. When male students, isolated from family and friends in madrasa, reach puberty and their hormones are active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verse that promises sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about martyrdom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique , and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”
In short, Saudi Arabia is very guilty of promoting Islamic terrorism and as well all know Islamic terrorism has no respect for human rights.
Tom says
The Saudi’s have been shown as far back as 2004 by channel 4 in the UK to have been exporting their form of Islam by paying for the building of mosques that spread the Wahhabi radical Islam by Imam’s sent by Saudi.
Any mosque that is spreading Wahhabism should be banned in the west.
BVC says
“Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural dialogue”
Since when is Saudi Arabia “interreligious” and “intercultural”? This implies that one has freedom in Saudi Arabia to practice the religion of ones choice, does it not? So i can fly to S.A. with my bible in one hand and my cross in the other and stand on the sidewalk and converse with others about following Christ’s teachings? Would it not mean that churches and temples can be found in every major city? Would it also not mean that I, being of Baptist denomination, would be able to tour the city of Mecca?
I think any one of the above actions would grant me a death sentence.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, “interreligious” or “intercultural” about Saudi Arabia.
Frank Anderson says
BVC, agreed that no freedom exists in SA. But, they are using our freedom to lie in our faces and trick a few ignorant fools into joining their savage cult, and lull many other delusional, gutless cowards to stay asleep long enough for us to fall under their control. “What’s mine is mine; What’s yours is negotiable.” Remember somewhere along the way a Communist leader said that we would sell the rope they would use for our hanging. We are doing that right now with islam in our midst. I have seen it happening up close and personal.
gravenimage says
Yes–they will use our freedoms if we let them.
Frank Anderson says
GI, either we can allow them continue their campaign of lies and conquest while we try in vain to talk them out of it, or we can use the tools that are available and demonstrated with success to stop them. Talk is cheap. Liberty is dear. Watch the William Daniels’ movie 1776. A criminal conspiracy can be prosecuted and stopped. Ask the KKK. Ask King George. Always with respect and friendship.
gravenimage says
Quite agree, Frank.
CRUSADER says
“Is anybody there? Can anybody see what I see????”
John Adams in “1776”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fq4H4SAb6s
Frank Anderson says
Crusader, blindness and ignorance are not new. Adams had the same resistance to facing a problem as we see today. But for the obnoxious Adams the Congress would still be talking today. How much longer?
gravenimage says
John Adams–like all men–did have his blind spots.
But he got far more right than wrong, and is one of the greatest of the Founding Fathers.
Frank Anderson says
GI, again we agree. All people, according to Jewish teaching, are imperfect, even though all people are children of a common Father. Go back through the “Old Testament” and find a single “perfect” person. I don’t think we can. Everyone has flaws; but somehow still have the power to do really good things. Another of those teachings from Judaism, the origin of Jesus, that strikes me with its wisdom and sense.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Frank–flawed people can still do great things. None of us are perfect–and yes, recognizing this is wisdom.
And that Muslims use the self-criticism of Jews against them is disgusting. It is just the same with the self-criticism of the West–a heritage from Jews and the ancient Greeks–as well.
Frank Anderson says
GI, muslim teaching: When dealing with kafirs, sub-human, unworthy indifels, exploit every weakness, promise anything and never mean a word promised. From Mo, The Perfect Man and Perfect Example, himself.
abad says
Awesome news.
Now if only President Trump severs relations with Saudi Arabia, the Home of Islam(TM) we will be all set, other western countries will follow suit.
gravenimage says
I’d *love* to see it, abad.
joanofark06 says
Since he became president, Trump has been in love with them! His very first overseas visit was where? Saudi Arabia, where he “bent down” to receive his gold necklace, and then they gave him MANY very expensive gifts.
And NOW, THIS!!
‘That’s peanuts to you’: Trump brings props showing Saudi weapons purchases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=9O0uR03s7m4
Listen to him excitedly say, how many “people killing” tanks, planes, and other weapons, Americans will be making FOR THE SAUDI’S!! But hey, this will make over 40,000 jobs!! Yeah ha! (sarc/off).
joanofark06 says
And oh, I forgot this:
U.S. Citizen Detained And Tortured In Saudi Arabia: Report
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/u-citizen-detained-tortured-saudi-172742291.html
And where the article says THIS:
“The latest vote was prompted by a recent case in which an 18-year-old was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged crimes committed when he was a child.”
It was reported here:
Saudi Teenager Faces Death Sentence for Acts When He Was 10
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/world/middleeast/saudi-teenager-death-sentence.html
And as for jihadwatch, mentioning this:
“On a positive note, Jihad Watch has just reported that the “Department of Education is going after U.S universities over supposed ties to foreign governments” and that “at the top of the list are Georgetown University and Texas A&M, which have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar.””
I’ll believe it, when I see it! But I would REALLY give anything to NEVER read another article about so many schools, across our country, teaching our young children how to walk, talk, dress like, act like, and everything they need to do, to become a muslim!! The many articles I’ve archived about that, I never look at again, after I’ve posted ANOTHER article, because it just breaks my heart! Luckily, there’s intelligent parents out there, fighting it!
gravenimage says
Austria to shut down “controversial” Saudi center for interfaith religious dialogue
…………………..
*Good*.
joanofark06 says
I’d love to congratulate them!
gravenimage says
+1
Mung Shuonglun says
Any Muslim will treat non muslims as an animal. Cut throat as fun. They worship satan. They are for world domination. Deport all.
joanofark06 says
One good step for Austria. Although, I’ve archived 38 titles to articles, about muslims/islam taking over that country. And I don’t keep articles, unless they really say something! Here is just one, from last year:
MANHUNT: Another Muslim migrant murderer STABS girl to death, won’t be deported because he faces MURDER CHARGE IN AFGHANISTAN
https://gellerreport.com/2018/12/muslim-migrant-murderer-afghan.html/
And a little info, in the article:
“Widespread anti-immigrant sentiment was sparked after Austria took in some 150,000 asylum seekers starting in 2015 – a number which accounts for over one percent of its total population.”
Do notice that number of “immigrants”, was in 2015.