Pierce writes: "The slaughter was of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, most of whom
were Muslims, a community that, until all hell broke loose, generally lived
in harmony with its Christian neighbors. I mention all this because, as The
New York Times reports, our great good friends, the Saudis, and their
affiliated statelets around the Persian Gulf, are doing their best to start
the bloodletting all over again."
The New York Times reports the Saudis and their affiliated statelets around
the Persian Gulf are funding Islamic extremism. (photo: Hassan Ammar/Getty
Images)
It's Time to Stop the Saudis
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
24 May 16
When will we admit that many of our Gulf "allies" are spreading violent
extremism worldwide?
Back in 1999, the last time we had a President Clinton, the United States
and NATO intervened in Kosovo to prevent the slaughter of civilians in yet
another of the brutal civil wars that resulted from the dissolution of what
used to be Yugoslavia. The intervention was vigorous enough to draw
criticism from, among other organizations, Amnesty International, but it had
the desired effect. The slaughter was of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, most of
whom were Muslims, a community that, until all hell broke loose, generally
lived in harmony with its Christian neighbors.
I mention all this because, as The New York Times reports, our great good
friends, the Saudis, and their affiliated statelets around the Persian Gulf,
are doing their best to start the bloodletting all over again.
The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and
blamed for spreading Wahhabism-the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi
Arabia-in the 17 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny
Kosovo from Serbian oppression. Since then-much of that time under the watch
of American officials-Saudi money and influence have transformed this
once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic
extremism and a pipeline for jihadists. Kosovo now finds itself, like the
rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam. Over the last two
years, the police have identified 314 Kosovars-including two suicide
bombers, 44 women and 28 children-who have gone abroad to join the Islamic
State, the highest number per capita in Europe. They were radicalized and
recruited, Kosovo investigators say, by a corps of extremist clerics and
secretive associations funded by Saudi Arabia and other conservative Arab
gulf states using an obscure, labyrinthine network of donations from
charities, private individuals and government ministries.
Absent western intervention, Kosovo wouldn't exist today. That doesn't
matter to the purveyors of hate and death. If someone can tell me what
benefits-besides cheap oil and the feeling that it can always get worse-the
world gains from the continued existence of the governments in the Gulf
states, I'd be keen to know.
Any influence over them that might come from us arming these governments is
clearly nil. They are authoritarian theocracies, bribing murderers to kill
people all around the world so they won't kill anyone back home. These
countries are a blight, and their rulers, largely plutocratic criminals.
These are our allies in the fight against terror.
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It's Time to Stop the Saudis
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
24 May 16
When will we admit that many of our Gulf "allies" are spreading violent
extremism worldwide?
ack in 1999, the last time we had a President Clinton, the United States
and NATO intervened in Kosovo to prevent the slaughter of civilians in yet
another of the brutal civil wars that resulted from the dissolution of what
used to be Yugoslavia. The intervention was vigorous enough to draw
criticism from, among other organizations, Amnesty International, but it had
the desired effect. The slaughter was of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, most of
whom were Muslims, a community that, until all hell broke loose, generally
lived in harmony with its Christian neighbors.
I mention all this because, as The New York Times reports, our great good
friends, the Saudis, and their affiliated statelets around the Persian Gulf,
are doing their best to start the bloodletting all over again.
The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and
blamed for spreading Wahhabism-the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi
Arabia-in the 17 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny
Kosovo from Serbian oppression. Since then-much of that time under the watch
of American officials-Saudi money and influence have transformed this
once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic
extremism and a pipeline for jihadists. Kosovo now finds itself, like the
rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam. Over the last two
years, the police have identified 314 Kosovars-including two suicide
bombers, 44 women and 28 children-who have gone abroad to join the Islamic
State, the highest number per capita in Europe. They were radicalized and
recruited, Kosovo investigators say, by a corps of extremist clerics and
secretive associations funded by Saudi Arabia and other conservative Arab
gulf states using an obscure, labyrinthine network of donations from
charities, private individuals and government ministries.
Absent western intervention, Kosovo wouldn't exist today. That doesn't
matter to the purveyors of hate and death. If someone can tell me what
benefits-besides cheap oil and the feeling that it can always get worse-the
world gains from the continued existence of the governments in the Gulf
states, I'd be keen to know.
Any influence over them that might come from us arming these governments is
clearly nil. They are authoritarian theocracies, bribing murderers to kill
people all around the world so they won't kill anyone back home. These
countries are a blight, and their rulers, largely plutocratic criminals.
These are our allies in the fight against terror.
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