Tunesia, Egyt and now Yemen: a domino effect in the Middle East?

For all I know, his former findings have been dismissed and mocked by current experts.

They are contributing a lot of moola to the charities that fund the Taliban and maybe Al Qaeda.

Osama is after all is a Saudi Arab with a Palestinian mother.

The Wahhabis are trying to spread their fundamentalist view all over the Muslim world. I know one mosque where they kicked the head of the mosque and had a more fundamentalist installed because of Saudi funds.

Really?

The Riyadh-based Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (ARABIC) is one of the leading banks in the Middle East and the flagship of Islamic banking in Saudi Arabia. In terms of size of balance sheet, it is the largest Islamic financial institution in the world.

ARABIC, whose Chairman and Managing Director are the respected brothers Sheikh Saleh and Sheikh Suleiman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi respectively, is characterised by its prudence, cautiousness and a low-key, almost secretive approach to banking, although perhaps this lack of transparency is changing as the nature of banking of worldwide changes.

Saudi Arabian funding

Starting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports.[50] The tens of billions of dollars in "petro-Islam" largess obtained from the recently heightened price of oil funded an estimated "90% of the expenses of the entire faith."[51]

Throughout the Muslim world, religious institutions for people both young and old, from children's maddrassas to high-level scholarships received Saudi funding,[52] "books, scholarships, fellowships, and mosques" (for example, "more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years"),[53] along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities, schools, mosques, etc.[54]

The funding was also used to reward journalists and academics who followed the Saudis' strict interpretation of Islam; and satellite campuses were built around Egypt for Al Azhar, the world's oldest and most influential Islamic university.[55]

The interpretation of Islam promoted by this funding was the strict, conservative Saudi-based Wahhabism or Salafism. In its harshest form it preached that Muslims should not only "always oppose" infidels "in every way," but "hate them for their religion ... for Allah's sake," that democracy "is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century," that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were infidels, etc.[56] While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the "gold standard" of religion in Muslims' minds.[57]

How might they rub you the "right way?"

This is the same CI who, if he talked to a conservative woman in Akron Ohio, would tell us that she is a hater or a dupe.

Ugly American?

Words of the Rabbis Opposing Zionism - Today's Quote
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin


"The rabbis of the generation should gather together and issue a writ of excommunication against the Zionists and eject them from the Jewish People, and make decrees against their bread and wine, and to forbid marrying with them, JUST LIKE OUR SAGES DID WITH THE SAMARITANS."
Do these words of the Zionists represent YOU?
Read the words of the Zionists and decide for yourself if Zionism represents your interests and beliefs.
Words of the Zionists - Today's Quote
David Ben-Gurion

As WWI was winding down, Ben-Gurion clearly stated that Zionism's ultimate objective is to make Palestine (inclusive of Trans-Jordan) a land with a Jewish majority. He stated in November 1917:

"Within then the next twenty years, we must have a Jewish majority in Palestine." (Shabtai Teveth, p. 43)

Yeah, sure, talk nonsense all you want Finn.