Author Aims To Dispel "Fallacies" About Saudi Islam [on Juan Cole]

Please bury your head in the sand and ignore what the Saudis do

From the “expert” who found it hard to differentiate between Sarah Palin and Osama bin Laden comes this: an exhortation to not condemn the Saudi government, or the Wahhabi lifestyle, just because most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi.

Fine. But what about the fact that the Saudi government itself -- not the hijackers -- is responsible for condemning a 75 year-old woman to 40 lashes, sentencing a pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes, and is internationally recognized as one of the worst violators of human-rights? How are we to “reconsider” those facts?

“Author Aims To Dispel Fallacies About Saudi Islam,” from NPR, March 23 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):

Morning Edition, March 23, 2009 · Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, wants readers to reconsider what they think they know about countries like Saudi Arabia.

It’s widely known that most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. Cole, a professor of Middle East history at the University of Michigan, says some people abuse that fact to fuel suspicion of the Saudi government, or of the Saudi strain of Islam known as Wahhabism.

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Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim, a specialist in Islamic history and doctrine, is the author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (2022); Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018); Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013); and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). He has appeared on C-SPAN, Al-Jazeera, CNN, NPR, and PBS and has been published by the New York Times Syndicate, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Weekly Standard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst. Formerly an Arabic linguist at the Library of Congress, Ibrahim guest lectures at universities, briefs governmental agencies, and testifies before Congress. He has been a visiting fellow/scholar at a variety of Institutes—from the Hoover Institution to the National Intelligence University—and is the Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

Author Aims To Dispel “Fallacies” About Saudi Islam [on Juan Cole]

Please bury your head in the sand and ignore what the Saudis do