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Islamist Terrorism Was Invented
in Saudi Arabia, Will It Be Destroyed There?
by Jeff Dunetz
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Yale Claims 'Cure' for Conservatism
by Political Editors: Pseudo-scientists at Yale University claim to have figured out how to change a conservative’s political views via “an intense imagination exercise.” The basic gist of the “study” suggests that conservatives are more aware of and concerned with physical threats than are leftists. Participants were asked their political opinions and then asked to close their eyes and deeply image one of two scenarios. Half of the individuals were asked to imagine that a genie granted them the power of flight, the other half were to imagine that they were absolutely invulnerable to any physical harm. According to the study, those who imagined they could fly changed very little in their political views, while those who imagined they were invulnerable to physical harm were said to have become indistinguishable from Democrats in their views.
The eggheads at Yale went on to extrapolate that the reason for this change was that people who feel “unsafe” are more apt to adopt conservative political perspectives. You know, those who don’t buy the “just trust me” trope. While it would be amazing to actually be Superman, the reality is that humans are mortal, and furthermore, history and life experience are replete with examples of why we should be wary about blindly trusting people.
But another obvious point emerges here that was seemingly missed by these “academics.” Jazz Shaw of Hot Air puts it well, stating, “Putting unrelated information into the minds of survey participants prior to asking questions has a different name in political circles. It’s known as a push poll. Rather than getting an accurate impression of a person’s opinions, you’re poisoning the well in advance to sway their feelings. It’s also little more than a temporary effect. … I would suggest assembling a similar group of test subjects and showing them all a picture of Kate Steinle, followed by some grisly scenes of the handiwork of MS-13. Then ask them all about their feelings on immigration issues being sure to include the word ‘illegal’… Who knows? You might even cure some liberals for a little while.”
In the end, the real pathology can be found on the Left. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52605
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Pulosi Opposed liar-Bill Clinton “Witch
Hunt” – Now Doing Same Thing Against Trump
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s got to be tough for lying hypocrite Democrats to defend their positions when they take both sides of an issue depending upon who it benefits... The reality of video lasts forever bit her in this case as well as Chuck Todd played a clip from 1998 and the liar-Clinton presidency. Todd isn’t asking her about the special counsel but she included comments from when it was her party’s president being investigated that fly in the face of what they’re doing today against President Trump. Pulosi said that the women of America “do not want to see a person with uncontrolled power, uncontrolled time, unlimited money investigating the President of the United States.” Why is it okay now that an investigation by Robert Mueller that has produced no evidence related to the supposed crime he was hired to prosecute, on top of fruitless investigations by the Intelligence Committees continues?... https://rickwells.us/pelosi-clinton-witch-hunt-trump/.
Top US Jewish Leader Bargains with
Qater for Lives of Missing Israelis in Gaza
by YAAKOV KATZ
{jpost.com} ~ Malcolm Hoenlein, a prominent American Jewish leader, has been holding secret talks with Qatar... in an effort to retrieve the Israeli soldiers and citizens being held in the Gaza Strip. Apparently, the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, is aware of these talks, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Hoenlein, the veteran executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, was in Qatar a few weeks ago, where he met with the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Hoenlein later told associates that during the meeting he brought up the issue of the missing Israelis... http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/With-Israeli-knowledge-top-US-Jewish-leader-holds-talks-with-Qatar-over-MIAs-in-Gaza-515306?utm_source=tech%20newsletter&utm_campaign=27-11-2017&utm_content=with-israeli-knowledge-top-us-jewish-leader-holds-talks-with-qatar-over-mias-in-gaza-515306.
This New Technology
Could Transform The Oil Industry
by Ian Jenkins
{oilprice.com} ~ As Saudi Arabia spins from crisis to crisis, U.S. oil hasn’t missed a beat... It’s stronger and more resilient than ever--and it has nothing to do with OPEC oil production cuts. In this war, U.S. oil wins, and the recent purge of billionaire princes in Saudi Arabia is icing on the cake. But when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman arrested key members of the royal family on corruption charges two weeks ago all of them his rivals--oil shot up. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spiked more than $2 a barrel, closing around $57 a barrel—a nearly two-year high... https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/This-New-Technology-Could-Transform-The-Oil-Industry.html.
Al Franken – From Unfunny Pervert
Comedian To Laughing Stock Pervert Senator
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ The episode of Saturday Night Live in which Al Franken reemerged from under his rock is hard to watch... partially because it isn’t funny and partially for what some might see as exploitative and totally unnecessary and inappropriate photos of nude children he used as props. They’ve been pixilated more in the image here from the original black redaction blocks in the video posted below. Though technically he had the children and thereby himself sufficiently covered for public airwaves, the question one has to ask is “why do it at all?” What was going on in that creepy liberal mind of his that told him that people would find it funny and what made it pop into his head as a good idea for a prop and topic for a joke to begin with?... https://rickwells.us/franken-pervert-comedian-senator/.
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Islamist Terrorism Was Invented
in Saudi Arabia, Will It Be Destroyed There?
{lidblog.com} ~ The radical Islamist terrorists trying to destroy the west have their roots are in Wahhabism, a form of Islam initially practiced in Saudi Arabia and spread across the world by the Saudi royal family. But on Saturday, November 25, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addressed the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) Ministers of Defense Council with a speech that said in part:
“The biggest threat from terrorism and extremism is not only killing innocent people and spreading hate but tarnishing the reputation of our religion and distorting our belief.”
But does he really mean it? After all, Wahhabi Islam is a huge part of Saudi society and according to many, the mother of the terrorism of which the Prince spoke, In July 2013, Wahhabism was identified by the EU Parliament as the main source of global terrorism.
Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam created by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the 18th century. Its original purpose was to stop the Sunni practice at the time of honoring Muslim saints and visiting their tombs and shrines. Al-Wahhab called that practiced idolatry. The early days of Wahhabism included the slaughter of Muslim tribes who didn’t agree with their theology just as ISIS does today, a most famous example was the Wahhabi sack of Karbala.
As with other radical forms of the faith promoted by terrorist groups such as the Hamas and ISIS, Wahhabism promotes the fusion of “church and state” via the reestablishment of the Muslim Caliphate. Wahhabism also promotes the Sunni/Shia divide per their belief that there is only one correct way to practice Islam.
Wahhabism has been allied with the house of Saud from its very beginnings. In 1744, the Emir of Ad-Diriyyah Muhammad ibn Saud, and the founder of the Saudi dynasty cut a deal with Wahhabi founder Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab The pact was described by British Historian Robert Lacey:
“Ibn Saud would protect and propagate the stern doctrines of the Wahhabi mission, which made the Koran the basis of government. In return, Abdul Wahhab would support the ruler, supplying him with ‘glory and power.’ Whoever championed his message, he promised, ‘will, by means of it, rule and lands and men.’”
This religious/political alliance helped to create the modern Saudi Kingdom via conquest in the first three decades of the 20th century. Ikhwan, a tribal army inspired by Wahhabism fought alongside the House of Saud to unify the country. Eventually, the Ikhwan grew too powerful had to be put down by the Saudi Army.
In the 1970s worried about the Shia-Islam Iranian revolution created when U.S. President Jimmy Carter forced the Shah to abdicate, Saudi Arabia began to promote Wahhabism across the world. As recently explained in “The New Statesman”
“The Saudi-based Muslim World League opened offices in every region inhabited by Muslims, and the Saudi ministry of religion printed and distributed Wahhabi translations of the Quran, Wahhabi doctrinal texts and the writings of modern thinkers whom the Saudis found congenial (…) to Muslim communities throughout the Middle East, Africa, Indonesia, the United States and Europe. In all these places, they funded the building of Saudi-style mosques with Wahhabi preachers and established madrasas that provided free education for the poor, with, of course, a Wahhabi curriculum.”
Muslim men who went to Saudi Arabia to find work and support their families brought Wahhabism home with them. And when they returned they sought out Saudi mosques and schools for their young.
“The Saudis demanded religious conformity in return for their munificence, so Wahhabi rejection of all other forms of Islam as well as other faiths would reach as deeply into Bradford, England, and Buffalo, New York, as into Pakistan, Jordan or Syria: everywhere gravely undermining Islam’s traditional pluralism.”
According to a 2013 EU report, along with spreading their radical form of Islam, these Saudi/Wahhabi charities also provided funding to groups such as Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Haqqani network and other radical groups. Usama Bin Laden who grew up in Saudi Arabia practiced and promoted a form of Wahhabism.
ISIS was created on Wahhabi principals:
“Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the first “prince of the faithful” in the Islamic State of Iraq, in 2006 formulated, for instance, the principles of his prospective state … Among its goals is disseminating monotheism “which is the purpose [for which humans were created] and [for which purpose they must be called] to Islam…” This language replicates exactly Abd-al Wahhab’s formulation. And, not surprisingly, the latter’s writings and Wahhabi commentaries on his works are widely distributed in the areas under ISIS’ control and are made the subject of study sessions.”
When ISIS made overthrowing the Saudi monarchy as a goal, the Saudi’s began to see the connection between Wahhabism and terrorism and started moving away from their 270-year alliance with Wahhabism.
In 2014, Reuters reported that then King Abdullah pressured the senior clergy in Saudi Arabia to denounce terrorist doctrines promoted by the likes of al Qaeda or ISIS, and they started vetting the kingdom’s 70,000 mosques, firing the clerics who promote terrorism.
A May 2017 visit by President Trump elicited a Saudi promise to fight terrorism. Promises, however, especially when made by heads of state are often empty. That is why it was such a surprise when the Crown Prince of the nation that helped launch and spread Wahhabi Islam, the mother of Islamist terrorism made such a strong anti-terrorism message six-months after the visit by the American President.
In his keynote address to the meeting held in the Saudi capital, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who is in the middle of cleaning out the “old guard” of Saudi royals declared that terrorism had to end:
“The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion. … We will not allow this to happen,” said the crown prince. “Today we start the pursuit of terrorism and we see its defeat in many facets around, the world especially in Muslim countries. … We will continue to fight it until we see its defeat.”
“In past years, terrorism has been functioning in all of our countries… with no coordination” among them, he said in his keynote speech. “This ends today, with this alliance.”
The crown prince said the 40 countries were sending a “clear signal” that they would “work together to support the military, financial, intelligence and political efforts of every member state.”
He condemned the ISIS attack on an Egyptian mosque that killed more than 300 worshippers and said it would galvanize the Islamic military coalition.
“(The attack on a mosque in Egypt) was a very painful occurrence and must make us contemplate in an international and powerful way the role of this terrorism and extremism,” the Crown Prince said.
And then the “money” statement,
“The biggest threat from terrorism and extremism is not only killing innocent people and spreading hate, but tarnishing the reputation of our religion and distorting our belief.”
That statement is a recognition of what many have been saying for years, much of the terrorism the world is fighting today comes from the Muslim world, and non-terrorists, the majority of people who practice Islam need to eradicate terrorism from their midst.
If the words of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are followed actions from Saudi Arabia, the country that helped to birth Islamist terrorism, and spread the theology through the world. The Saudis may also be known as the country that put the scourge of terrorism to death.
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