- The corrupt king of Saudi Arabia Malek Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz
whose clandestine connections with the families of Osama Bin Laden and
George W. Bush have made him a notorious and unpopular figure in the Islamic
world has recently made unbelievably controversial remarks which leaved
no doubt that this tyrannical monarch is moving towards ushering himself
as the new stooge of the United States in the Persian Gulf region.
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- The Saudi King who has seemingly started attempts to
merge his country with the imperialist world told the French Defense Minister
Hervé Morin in a meeting held after the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre
that "two states in region do not deserve to exist: Israel and Iran."
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- Juxtaposed with the impolite and uncompromising mistreatment
of the Iranian pilgrims by the Saudi police forces in Mecca and Medina,
the bizarre and unprecedented remarks of the Saudi tyrant whose monarchy
has been described as "head-chopping, hand-severing, anti-feminist,
misogynist, feudal [and] anti-democratic" by Robert Fisk highlighted
the Arab kingdom's decisiveness to distance itself from the union of Islamic
nations and join the bloc of imperialist governments.
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- So, let's pose some vital questions. Does the Saudi king
really deserve the title of the Custodian of Two Holy Mosques, which he
has assigned to himself? Does this corrupt monarch really care about the
Islamic solidarity?
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- In an article titled "The Kingdom of Corruption,
the Saudi Connection", the British Pakistani author and historian
Tariq Ali wrote about the undiscovered and unseen realities of Saudi Arabia
intelligently: "In normal times the Saudi Kingdom is barely covered
by the Western media. The Ambassadors report to their respective chanceries
that all is well and the continuity of the regime is not threatened. It
requires the imprisonment of an American or British citizen or for a British
nurse to be chucked out of a window for attention to focus on the regime
in Riyadh."
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- "Even less is known about the state religion, which
is not an everyday version of Sunni or Shia Islam, but a peculiarly virulent,
ultra-puritanical strain known as Wahhabism. This is the religion of the
Saudi royals, the state bureaucracy, the army and air-force and, of course,
Osama Bin Laden, the best-known Saudi citizen in the world, currently resident
in Afghanistan" he adds.
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- Tariq Ali accurately pinpointed the root of Saudi extremism:
Wahhabism, an artificially manufactured denomination of Islam which authorizes
the killing of Shiite Muslims as a means of entering the heaven. The very
fact that Shiite Muslims are subject to the most vicious and cruel mistreatments
of fanatic Wahabis in Saudi Arabia is almost known to everyone.
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- Although the Shiites constitute a 15% minority of the
Saudi Arabia's 20-million population, they're simply deprived of the most
basic rudiments of a normal life and an equal right to practice their particular
rites and rituals. The social situation is also the same for Shiite Saudis.
According to Amir Taheri's National Review article, of the top 400 government
officials in Saudi Arabia, only 1 person is Shiite. More regrettably, of
the 120 members of the all-appointed Saudi parliament only two are Shiites.
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- While the international human rights organizations are
accustomed to turning a blind eye to the inhuman discriminations imposed
on the Saudi Shiites by the radical Wahabis, the pains and grieves of this
subjugated minority are building up progressively.
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- In March 2009, a group of Shiite leaders threatened the
Saudi government that they might pull out of the kingdom should the discriminatory
measures against the Shiite minority remain in effect. Sheikh Nimr Baqer
Al-Nimr had lashed out at the Saudi regime, calling on Shiites to "be
ready to defend themselves" and brandishing the threat of secession
from the oil-rich province of Qatif. The Saudi Interior Minister denied
the Shiite leaders' statements while he was in New York.
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- Of the sporadic protests to the unjustifiable mistreatment
of Shiites in Saudi Arabia, the most prominent one was the Human Rights
Watch's warning to the Riyadh government to refrain from the further suppression
of Shiites. In September 2009, the Human Rights Watch released a 32-page
report in which the Saudi government was accused of "systemic state
discrimination" against the Shiites in the areas of religion, education,
justice and employment.
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- According to the report, "the Saudi government has
long regarded its Shiite citizens through the prism of Wahhabi dogma or
state stability, and brands them as unbelievers or suspects even their
national loyalties"
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- "In employment, there are no Shi'a government ministers,
senior diplomats or high-ranking military officers. And Shi'a students
generally can't even get admission to military academies," the report
says.
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- The corruption of Saudi government, however, is not limited
to the extrajudicial and atrocious suppression of its Shiite citizens.
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- The longstanding, robust and unconcealed connections
of the Saudi royal family with the terrorist gangs around the world, which
was never challenged nor protested by the United States that considers
itself a harbinger of war on terrorism, should be deemed another manifestation
of Saudi's governmental corruption. With its close ties to the Bin Laden
family, doesn't Saudi Arabia deserve to be listed in the U.S.-fabricated
list of State Sponsors of Terrorism?
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- According to Michael Parenti, "throughout the eighties,
when the United States assisted the Saudis in a giant military buildup
of airfields, ports, and bases throughout the kingdom, many of the contracts
were awarded to the largest construction company in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi
Binladen Group, founded by Osama bin Laden's father."
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- In "Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy
and the Failed Hunt for bin Laden", two French intelligence analysts,
Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, claim that the Clinton and
Bush administrations impeded investigations of bin Laden and his al Qaeda
terrorist group in order to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and
to maintain the stability of the oil market.
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- Prior to 1980, George Bush Jr. is a failed oil man. Three
times friends and investors have bailed him out to keep him from going
bankrupt. But in this year, the same year his father becomes President,
some Saudis buy a portion of his small company, Harken, which has never
worked outside of Texas. Later in the year, Harken wins a contract in the
Persian Gulf and starts doing well financially. These transactions seem
so suspicious that the Wall Street Journal in 1991 states it "raises
the question of ... an effort to cozy up to a presidential son." Two
major investors in Bush's company during this time are Salem bin Laden,
Osama bin Laden's oldest brother, and Khaled bin Mahfouz.
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- According to Paul Thompson's article in Amazon News,
Mohammed al-Khilewi, the First Secretary at the Saudi Mission to the United
Nations, defects and seeks political asylum in the US. He brings with him
14,000 internal government documents depicting the Saudi royal family's
corruption, human-rights abuses, and financial support for terrorists.
He meets with two FBI agents and an Assistant US Attorney. "We gave
them a sampling of the documents and put them on the table," says
his lawyer, "but the agents refused to accept them."
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- Anyway, Saudi Arabia's state corruption, its undeniable
relations with the terrorist gangs and the family of Osama Bin Laden, its
violation of human rights and its non-commitment to the principles of humanity
is not hidden from the public opinions worldwide. King Abdullah had better
do something about the black records of his support for the global terrorism
and violation of human rights rather than issuing statements about the
existence of countries on the world map. By putting Iran and Israel at
the same level, King Abdullah revealed his impure nature to the world.
Israel, a country that has been busy murdering, attacking and massacring
for 60 years, and Iran that has been the most pacifist country in the region;
are these two the same?
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