Coming around, ever so slowly but still...
The Saudi's are starting to gain some much needed public attention as the actual money behind much of the world's terrorism. This is both by direct funding as well as giving funds and reading matter to new mosques springing up through the Western World. Several people have noted that the translations of the Koran being given as well as the ancillary reading materials are very slanted toward violence against the Dhimmi (that's everyone non-Muslim) and the Jews, specifically calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
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From
FOX News:
Protesters Harass Saudi King Abdullah in Britain
Demonstrators harassed Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Tuesday during a state visit being overshadowed by criticism of the kingdom's human rights practices and his comments that Britain has failed to do enough to stop terrorism.
Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Abdullah, who reviewed an honor guard on Horse Guards Parade before taking a carriage to Buckingham Palace. Protesters gathering nearby carried banners that condemned government "hypocrisy" and said: "You can't do this in Riyadh."
Before Abdullah arrived on Monday for the first state visit by a Saudi king in two decades, he accused Britain of failing to act on intelligence that might have prevented the 2005 London transit bombings, triggering debate about the kingdom's response to terrorism.
British officials denied the king's claims, saying they received information from Saudi officials about an apparently separate attack, which bore no similarities to the London transit bombings in which 52 commuters and four suicide bombers died.
"For King Abdullah to tell the world, as he did in a BBC interview yesterday, that Britain is not doing enough to counter 'terrorism,' and that most countries are not taking it as seriously as his country is, is really pushing it," veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk wrote in a front-page column in The Independent newspaper.
"Weren't most of the (Sept. 11, 2001) hijackers from, er, Saudi Arabia? Is this the land that is really going to teach us lessons?"
The visit by Abdullah, 82, had a rough start even before his remarks. The acting leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable, promised to boycott the visit to protest Saudi Arabia's human rights record, especially concerns over torture, public executions and discrimination against women.
Activists pointed to executions, floggings, detention of critics without charge and violence against women among their complaints about the kingdom.
Posted by DaveH at October 30, 2007 7:43 PM