Another version of the report from day before yesterday...
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A leading Saudi government cleric and author of the countryâs religious curriculum believes Islam advocates slavery. "Slavery is a part of Islam," says Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, according to the independent Saudi Information Agency, or SIA. In a lecture recorded on tape by SIA, the sheik said, "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." Al-Fawzan is a member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research, the Imam of Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh and a professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabiaâs main center of learning for the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. His religious books are used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including the United States. Al Fawzan is a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabiaâs highest religious body.
As for those who disagree with him:
[He] says Muslims who contend Islam is against slavery "are ignorant, not scholars." [They are] infidels ... their blood and money are therefore free for the taking by "true Muslims." Al-Fawzan, a leading opponent of curriculum reform, opposes elections and demonstrations as Western influences, is against Arab women marrying non-Arab Muslims and has issued a fatwa forbidding the watching of television. According to Saudi liberal writer and scholar Sheikh Hassan Al-Maliki, Al-Fawzan threatened him with beheading if he continued in his criticism of the extremist Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. Al-Maliki, who worked for the ministry of education, was fired after he wrote a 50- page paper criticizing Al-Fawzanâs book âAl-Tawheedâ.
Ah yes, Islam, the religion of peace. Peace as long as you lock up the slaves and cut the tongues out of the infidels (after robbing them first). These guys make the Klan look liberal. And the Saudi Royal family prop these guys up and try to spread their close-minded hate around the world. When is the US going to get smart, and cut the source of the cancer in the middle east: the Wahabbi bigots and the bastards in Soddy that support them. |