Saudis Support a Jihad in Iraq, Not Back Home

[drdon326]

In Saudi Arabia, a strategic ally of the United States, violence against the occupation in Iraq is seen by many as jihad, or a holy struggle, but virtually no one accepts violence as jihad when it unrolls here at home, in the heart of what is supposed to be the most Muslim of countries.

In Iraq, attacks by American troops serve as evidence to some that the United States occupation of a Muslim land must be reversed. Requests for God to avenge American actions pour down from mosque minarets, and some women university students sport Osama bin Laden T-shirts under their enveloping abayas to show their approval for his calls to resist the United States.

But many Saudis consider the attack here on Wednesday a shocking and unsettling crime, especially since the attackers chose for their first major government target an office building that virtually every adult male must visit to collect a license or car plates.

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Experts on the topic believe that most Saudis do not view the two battles as even remotely related.

"When people see Israeli operations in Palestine and the American cruelty in Iraq, they feel angry and frustrated," said Abdullah Bejad al-Oteibi, a former fundamentalist now working as a legal researcher. "They cannot control their anger and they admire bin Laden, so that is why many people volunteer for jihad. But when there are operations here, people feel angry and betrayed."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/international/middleeast/23SAUD.html?hp=&pagewanted=all&position=


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hmmm....

terrorism against israel....great
terrorism against USA......NO PROBLEM

terrorism against the saudis....now hold on there.

[hadrons]

1. just proves that the Saudis are like everyone else

hypocrites

[bemildred]

2. Asiri resistance seems to be heating up.

You just know the wheels are going to come off in SA,
but you just don't quite know when. No doubt the Iraq
fandango is helping stir the pot.