The home of the religion of peace, Saudi Arabia, is rounding up unbelievers.
Islamist police in Saudi Arabia have stormed a Christian prayer meeting and arrested its entire congregation, including women and children, and confiscated their bibles, it has been reported.
The raid was the latest incident of a swingeing crackdown on religious minorities in Saudi Arabia by the country’s hard-line Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
The 28 Christians were said to be worshipping at the home of an Indian national in the eastern city of Khafji, when the police entered the building and took them into custody. They have not been seen or heard from since, raising concerns among human rights groups as to their whereabouts
Now lets see. Are the Saudis Wahhabists or Salafists? In any case this all lends credence to the anti-ISIS call by the Saudi government. According to the New York Times.
Saudi Arabia has agreed to an American request to provide a base to train moderate Syrian opposition fighters, American officials said on Wednesday.
“We now have the commitment from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be a full partner in this effort — the train-and-equip program — to host that program,” said a senior Obama administration official, who added that discussions were underway to determine the specific site and other details.
Well that is just outstanding. I wonder what the Saudi motives really are. And these so called moderates in Syria. Just how moderate can they be if the Saudis are backing them?
I get the distinct feeling on some days that our government is lying to us. Most other days I believe they are not telling the truth.
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The multi-national oil companies don’t care they want oil and they run this country! Why was the only flight to fly thenext day after 9-11 2001 was a flight taking the bin ladin family back to saudi arabia?
either lying or selectively blind which I think is more likely.
The Saudis want an oil pipeline across Syria to the Mediterranean, to improve access to the European market. This includes both petroleum and natural gas. This is a big item on the wish list for the U.S. government as well, to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and Iran’s ability to block oil shipments through the Straits of Hormuz.
As long as Assad is in power and allied with Iran, there will be no pipeline. So, he must go. Apparently the alternative of putting a shorter pipeline through the Negev to Haifa is not considered an option in Europe and Saudi Arabia.
Honestly, I can’t figure out who ISIS is allied with. They’re so well-funded and well-trained they must be working with somebody, but nobody is taking the credit.
Honestly, I can’t figure out who ISIS is allied with. They’re so well-funded and well-trained they must be working with somebody, but nobody is taking the credit.
I was wondering the same thing.
The obvious is the Saudis with the Americans a close second. But the Saudis seem to be worried about an attack and the pResident knows nothing. And ISIS isn’t talking.
Here is what came up in a search:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html
Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29004253
Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
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The Islamic terror group’s annual revenues are now at least comparable to the funding that al Qaeda had available during its heyday in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when U.S. intelligence estimated it was bringing in $25 million to $30 million a year, according to one official. And it may be that ISIS’s financial resources go “well beyond” those of Osama bin Laden’s organization at the time, the official said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/deep-pockets-dark-goals-how-will-isis-keep-funding-terror-n187296
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$30 mn a year? How about 10X that? Or more.
That’s what is so weird. It seems so obvious that it’s the Saudis, Qataris, and the U.S. that are funding and training ISIS. But the fact is that American air strikes are taking out ISIS targets, and U.S. special operations units are “advising” the Kurdish and Iraqi forces blocking ISIS from further advances into Iraq. The Iranians have nothing obvious to gain from ISIS. Maybe it’s the Turks, but you’d think there would be information leaking out of the secular Deep State.
So what the heck is going on? There’s not even any decent rumors to go on.
Good God, heaven forbid that the Turkish Army and the Turkish Islamists have come to an arrangement. If that’s what is going on, there’s going to be hell to pay for Israel.