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Saudi Arabia: What About the Hate-Filled Textbooks and Sermons?
by Lawrence A. Franklin • March 22, 2018 at 4:30 am
- Recent analyses by experts on religious freedom cite the continued prejudicial declarations against Christians, Jews and Western civilization in Saudi educational textbooks as evidence that Saudi Arabia still bears ill will against the "infidel" West.
- Saudi Arabia has failed to meet agreed-upon deadlines to remove objectionable language from educational texts.
- The current Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir, seemed falsely to imply that hateful language appears only in past, discontinued textbooks and that current textbooks are being purged of any offensive language.
Saudi Imam Abdulwahab Al-Omari, in a recent Friday sermon, prayed for Allah to hasten the annihilation of Jews and the conversion of Christians to Islam. (Image source: MEMRI)
U.S.
President Donald Trump's May 2017 trip to Saudi Arabia and his address
to leaders of Islamic nations may open a new era of cooperation between
the United States and the world's leading conservative Sunni Muslim
states. Trump's trip, along with reported warming relations between
Israel and some Arab states, may suggest that the initial stages of an
anti-Iran, anti-terrorist alliance is in the offing.
In
Saudi Arabia, Trump forcefully denounced Iran's support for terrorism.
This speech was welcomed especially by Arabian Peninsula Sunni state
leaders, who could well be threatened by the aggressive policies of Shia
Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Levant.
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