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Saudi Arabia is often considered to be a more modern, moderate and enlightened Arab state compared to its conservative regional neighbors like Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States considers Saudi Arabia and its monarchy a friend and ally, and yet, as this week’s newsletter highlights, Saudi Arabia is far from moderate. On the contrary, Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that forbids the formation of any political parties or elections and upholds the strictest form of Shariah Law, that of Wahhabi Islam which imposes violent and cruel punishments on all those who fail to adhere to the religious laws of the Kingdom. | Saudi Arabia - Moderate Voice or Draconian Monarchy? by Clare M. Lopez Saudi Arabia’s hardline ultra-conservative religious council, the Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala working in conjunction with Kamal Subhi, a former professor at the King Fahd University, have just released a ‘scientific study’ that has come to some rather outlandish conclusions. In response to the growing pressure from women’s groups in Saudi Arabia to lift the ban on women driving, the report has warned that doing so would "provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce." Within ten years of the ban being lifted, the report’s authors claim, there would be "no more virgins" in the Islamic kingdom. And it pointed out "moral decline" could already be seen in other Muslim countries where women are allowed to drive. Just a few weeks earlier, the Kingdom’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has proposed a law to stop women from revealing their "tempting" eyes to the public. Should this law be passed, it would in effect, force Saudi women to more or less cover their entire bodies from head to toe – including their eyes. [MORE]
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Nina Shea, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. is interviewed by Sun News Network’s Mark Bonokoski. In this interview, Shea exposes the violent hate speech that is entrenched in Saudi Arabia’s text books -- text books that Muslim American children are also studying in the United States. [WATCH] |
| Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America by Clare M. Lopez When President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June 2009, the free world trembled while the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the United Nations (UN) itself and comprises 56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinians. It claims to be the “collective voice of the Muslim world,” i.e., the ummah, and speaks on its behalf in effect as the seat of the next Islamic Caliphate. In 1990, the OIC membership adopted the “Cairo Declaration,” which officially exempted all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and replaced it with Islamic law (shariah). One of the fundamental laws of Islam deals with “slander,” which is defined in shariah as saying “anything concerning a person [a Muslim] that he would dislike.” At the OIC’s Third Extraordinary Session, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in December 2005, the organization adopted a “Ten-Year Program of Action to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.” A key agenda item of that meeting was “the need to counter Islamophobia” by seeking to have the UN “…adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it, including deterrent punishments.” The word “Islamophobia” is a completely invented word, coined by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) front group. OIC adoption of the term reflects the close operational relationship between the OIC and the Ikhwan. [MORE] | |
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We recently received an interesting report about the activities of Islam on Campus at the University of Florida. The Muslim student group regularly hosts events with controversial speakers, including the infamous Sami Al-Arian - a Muslim activist, and former University of South Florida professor of computer engineering. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiracy to contribute services to or for the benefit of the Palestine Islamic Jihad, a Specially Designated Terrorist organization. Al-Arian still remains under house arrest. The activities of the IOC at the University of Florida have also caught the attention of the FBI's Joint Task Force on Terrorism which is currently following up a report that was submitted to them by the university’s Police Chief. UReport will continue to follow this story. Are events like this being run on your campus or in your community? If so, we want to hear about them. In addition, if you come across interesting stories in your local media or material on the Internet regarding radical Islamic activity that concerns you, please let us know about it. Send us an email at info@radicalislam.org
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