Amazing that FT gave its imprimatur to this warning: an important piece that Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal published in the Financial Tims today. The one audience of this piece: Obama. [Emphasis Weiss's]
Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran wrote a letter to
King Abdullah, explicitly recognising Saudi Arabia as the leader of the
Arab and Muslim worlds and calling on him to take a more confrontational role
over “this obvious atrocity and killing of your own children” in Gaza.
The communiqué is significant because the de facto recognition of the
kingdom’s primacy from one of its most ardent foes reveals the extent
that the war has united an entire region, both Shia and Sunni. Further,
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s call for Saudi Arabia to lead a jihad against Israel
would, if pursued, create unprecedented chaos and bloodshed in the
region.
So far, the kingdom has resisted these calls, but every
day this restraint becomes more difficult to maintain. When Israel
deliberately kills Palestinians, appropriates their lands, destroys
their homes, uproots their farms and imposes an inhuman blockade on
them; and as the world laments once again the suffering of the
Palestinians, people of conscience from every corner of the world are
clamouring for action. Eventually, the kingdom will not be able to
prevent its citizens from joining the worldwide revolt against Israel.
Today, every Saudi is a Gazan, and we remember well the words of our
late King Faisal: “I hope you will forgive my outpouring of emotions,
but when I think that our Holy Mosque in Jerusalem is being invaded and
desecrated, I ask God that if I am unable to undertake Holy Jihad, then
I should not live a moment more.”
well, a worldwide 'jihad' (i.e., a Muslim version of the Childrens' Crusade) is just what these bastards want. It gives them the perfect excuse to continue and expand their genocides of Muslim populations wherever they may wish.
When Israel blows up house full of wives and kids to get a Hamas leader we all complain about it. Here the United States is doing exactly the same thing to get a Taliban leader in Pakistan.
Whoops, forgot to include the link with the last post.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5575883.ece
When Israel blows up house full of wives and kids to get a Hamas leader we all complain about it. Here the United States is doing exactly the same thing to get a Taliban leader in Pakistan.
Word.
Duscany.
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Sunnis and shiites have long been united on this issue.
I think Ahmadinejad was just sticking a knife in Saudi regime, showing that they are emphatically NOT the leaders of the ummah… he knows there is no way they can stand up to their U.S. patrons to take a meaningful position, or god forbid, do anything for the Palestinians.