November 14, 2003

Kenneth Timmerman, author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America, on what's gone wrong in the Arab world, including these important remarks on the homeland of the terror war against Americans:

The Saudis express surprise that they are under attack. And yet, just as Arafat has done in the Palestinian Authority, they are responsible for spawning a culture of race-hatred, bigotry and violence that is now reaching back to consume them. Saudi school books teach young Saudis that there is a “malicious Crusader-Jewish alliance striving to eliminate Islam from all the continents.” They teach their children that “the West in particular is the source of the past and present misfortunes of the Muslim world, beginning with the Crusades.” Saudi government-appointed clerics exhort young Saudis to murder Jews and Christians.

The Saudis appear to have woken up to the fact that their regime has become a target of terrorist attack. But there will always be more terrorists until the Saudis change the basic teachers of their schools and mosques, which continue to breed hate in new generations of children.

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