More, Smiling to Your Face While Stabbing You in the Back

Yesterday, 26 April 2005, Sixth Column discussed Saudi duplicity and reprinted an early article on official Islamic dissimulation methods. We mentioned that the Director of the Saudi Institute exposed an audio tape of a very high Saudi official who thought he was away from Western eyes and ears, urging Saudis to go to Iraq and join the insurgents, i.e., the reverse of what he says in public. The NBC Evening News of the same day identified that official and added to the story.

The official is Sheik Salah Al-Luhaidan, Chief Justice of the Saudi Supreme Judicial Council. Two Saudi "intelligence" officials proclaimed the tape to be a good fake job. However, NBC talked by telephone directly to Al-Luhaidan who confirmed that the voice on the tape was his.

Now, get this: Al-Luhaidan, according to Lisa Myers, a reliable reporter for NBC, says that his words were misinterpreted. He said that he meant that there is no point in Saudis going to Iraq to fight because the Iraqis are managing themselves. This really reminds us of "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

A reader added a set of terrific comments to yesterday's blog about the Saudis. These comments are just too good not to highlight:

Herein lies a serious problem, which we Westerners have great difficulty comprehending: "...behavior as typically Bedouin: smiling to your face while stabbing you in the back....Deception as behavior preceeded Islam historically, coming substantially from long-standing Bedouin behavior. Islam institutionalized it. Still, so many people just do not want to believe that they are being deceived chronically..." I know from first-hand experience just how friendly Arabs can seem, and even though I now understand the truth, I simply want to respond to their friendly overtures. But let one of them see me reading "The Sword of the Prophet," and watch the attitude change--without any open discussion even when I ASK for rebuttal.

And remember the failures of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy as it related to the Middle East? I've always felt that he just couldn't see through the deception which these people are capable of. As this blog points out, such deception is part and parcel of Islam and even predates Islam. The "religion of peace" is merely a facade; what lies beneath is not peaceful but rather a totalitarian ideology.

A few weeks after 9/11, a Saudi-born colleague and a naturalized American citizen, told me something very like the following: "The Sauds are America's friend only as long as they can sell you oil. Look out after that!" Now we are, once again, faced with a President who actually believes what the Saudis are telling him. Big mistake!

A few days ago another reader discussed the Saudis in an email:

The Saudis just held their elections, "Ha Ha," and, of course, the ruling Islamofacists won out. Here we are in the 21st century, and we still have countries "like Saudi Arabia" still living in the dark ages. Women are not allowed to drive a vehicle "even if they learned how" they can't attend universities and attain a degree. Oh, I'm sure they have classes on how to be a good subserviant Muslim wife and the ever popular class "How to dance around and minimize the blows from your husband." This one I hear is very popular among the newlywed girls.It's becoming something of a national craze! Kind of like the "peppermint twist" was here in the good ol' U.S.--without the beatings.

Seriously though, we are having discussions of letting the Saudis in the World Trade Organization. To me this is bordering on insanity. 40 Christians were arrested yesterday in that cesspool of a country; their only crime not being a Muslim and worshipping a God other than the Allah. Then today the prince arrives in Crawford,Tx. to have a chit chat with the president. I wonder if Mr. Bush asked the great one about the arrests. I doubt it.

How can we as a nation have such double standards? We let the Saudi clerics bring their tripe over here, stirring up hatred for Jews and Christians. One of the pamphlets even stated "not to shake the hand of any unbeliever unless he first comes up to you." Another, "never practice or observe any western holidays." "Don't make friends with the unbelievers" unless it gives you an advantage."

We must tell the Saudi government in no uncertain terms, either you open up let people in your country practice what religon they want. or all Saudi clerics will be deported immediately, and all mosques sponsored by same government will be closed! No more "wahabbism" this is the only way to deal with Muslims. They perceive anything concillatory as weakness. They only understand strength. And while we still have it we must use it.

The president doesn't seem to get it, nor does the State Department. Few in Congress, if any, get it. However, American citizens are getting it better and better, as they have said ever so eloquently. We have got to take our pitchforks and make ourselves heard by our "leaders" so that we do not have to worry about surviving despite them.