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z2006-02-04- Saudi Wahhabi Jihad Support
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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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In a collection of pieces about Saudi Arabia, The Econom Ist notes Texts containing incitement to religious hatred are still stocked in mosques, bookstores and libraries. A giant state-run press outside Medina, for instance, produces some 10m beautifully printed [KorAn]-s a year, in 40 languages, which are distributed free throughout the world. Yet these are no ordinary Korans. They are annotated by [Wahhab Ist] scholars, who pronounce, among other things, that [JiHad] is one of the "pillars" of IsLam. (Most Muslims recognise five pillars: the profession of faith, prayer, alms-giving, fasting and pilgrimage.) "By abandoning jihad, Islam is destroyed," says one footnote. "Jihad is an obligatory duty, and he who tries to escape this duty, or does not in his innermost heart wish to fulfill this duty, dies with the qualities of a hypocrite."
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog