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Anti-Semitic publications in Saudi Arabia take
their inspiration from both radical Islam and classic Christian-European
anti-Semitism. In such publications (including textbooks) the Jews are
almost always portrait as enemies of Islam. Accordingly, they have negative
characteristics which are transmitted genetically from
one generation to the next and, by conquering Islamic lands, they made
themselves unworthy of [Allah's] protection, and it is therefore permissible
to kill them. In the wake of American pressure resulting from
the current war on terror, during the last year the Saudis have, to a certain
degree, moderated their anti-Semitic propaganda. |
| Articles in newspapers Ritual
murder |
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The following are excerpts from an article
by Dr. 'Umymah Ahmed al-Jalahima which was published in a Saudi daily
newspaper identified with the Saudi royal family ( Al-Riyadh Internet
edition, March 10, 2002):
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“During the Purim festival [while
every Jew/ess in required to dress up in fancy dress and a special
cookie known traditionally as "Haman Tashen" [Haman's Ear]
is baked, and made traditionally with poppy seed, to commemorate
this festival] the Jews bake a cookie whose ingredients are neither
expensive nor hard to come by, but one special ingredient cannot
be found in local and international markets, and unfortunately it
has no substitutes and cannot be omitted. The ingredient
in question is human blood . In other words, [the
Jews] cannot perform their holiday ceremonies without bloodletting …
That fact has been proved throughout human history,
and it was the main reason for the oppression of the Jews
in Europe and Asia .” |
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“The festival [Purim] begins on the 13 th day of March
with a fast in memory of the Jewess Esther. The following day the
Jews wear masks and costumes, drink large quantities of wine, commit
adultery and behave wildly. The blood used in baking the
cookie must come from a non-Jewish youth, that is, Christian or Muslim,
and their religious scholars knead it into the dough. As for the
Passover [Matza; i.e., unleavened bread], the blood [needed for its
preparation] must come from a Christian child younger than 10 years
of age .” |
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“ To return to the issue of bloodletting: the
victim is put into a barrel which has been made to measure for him,
into which very sharp needles are then fitted. The needles pierce
the skin of the body in the barrel . The aim is to have
the blood run out very slowly to torture the victim. The torture
delights the bloodthirsty Jews watching the act with
a love and joy which are difficult to understand . After
the barbaric deed has been performed the Jews take the blood, which
has been collected in a vessel, and bring it to a religious
Jewish scholar who uses it to prepare the dough for the cookie [i.e.,
the Matza] . There is another way to get the blood, namely
by slaughtering the victim or by cutting his arteries in
several places . Humanity is revolted by the very sight
of the Jews' cookie, to say nothing or the way it is made or of eating
it.” |
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[ Note : The second installment of the
article, which appeared on March 12, 2002 describes the Book of Esther
as it relates to the Jewish custom of using human blood: how Queen Esther
was responsible for the hanging of Haman and his 10 sons, and how she
ordered 750,000 enemies of the Jews to be executed. “Thus the holy Torah
teaches the Jews to be happy on that day, and their happiness
is incomplete if they do not eat bread made with human blood .” |
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Reactions to the article (taken from
the MEMRI Website) : |
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Turki Al-Sudairi, the editor of
the daily newspaper Al-Riyadh , said: “I examined
the article and I found it unfit for publication because
it was not based on scientific or historical fact, and was incompatible
with the rituals of all known religions, including Hinduism and
Buddhism… the information included in the article is no
different from the nonsense one always finds in yellow journalism,
whose reliability is questionable ” (Al-Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, March 19, 2002). |
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Othman Mahmud al-Sini, who writes
a column for Al-Wattan : “When 'Umaymah al-Jalahima wrote
about the danger of Zion and the blood the Jews must have to make
their baked goods for the Purim festival, the Western press rose
against her. Richard Boucher , American State
Department spokesperson, announced that it had no basis in fact
and only served to inflame emotions and that anti-Semitism was
still a problem in the news media which enjoyed government protection…
He made no reference to Christian literature dealing with the bloody
Purim festival although the relation between Jews and blood
is ancient and was even noted in [famous Shakespearian
play] The Merchant of Venice , in
which the Jew Shylock wants a pound of flesh from the play's [main]
hero to pay the debt owed him [this motif will be mentioned again
in the sections dealing the Gulf States and Jordan]. In my opinion, the
many stories dealing with the [Jewish] festive pf Purim are useless.
Whether the story is true or false is not our business … the
current crimes of the Jews do not require assistance
from historical stories, which may or may not be true …”
(Al-Wattan, Saudi Arabia, April 1, 2002). |
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The murder of non-Jews for ritual purposes
and the corruption of Israeli society : excerpts from an article
by Dr. Muhammad bin Saad al-Shwier, who writes a daily column for Al-Jezeera
and was advisor to the late Saudi Arabian Mufti Sheikh ‘Abdallah bin
Baz, and is the editor-in-chief of Islamic Research, a periodical published
by the Association of Saudi Arabian Muslim Religious Scholars. The article
appeared in the Saudi Arabian daily Al-Jezeera on September 6, 2002 (taken
from the MEMRI Internet site): |
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“The Jews have been known for their treachery
and faithlessness since the earliest days of [ancient] history. Because they
hate everyone and desire revenge against the entire
human race, their guiding principle is that "the ends
justify the means" . They feel themselves entitled
to the property of anyone who is not Jewish and call them [all non-Jewish]
Gentiles.” |
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“Because they are weak, their hatred appears in the
form of the schemes they devise, the traps they set and the
intrigues they plot . When their usual means cannot be used
they find strange ways to harm other people and nations, especially
Christians and Muslims.” |
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“Christian Europe demonstrated its hatred toward them when
it became clear that their [the Jews'] rabbis used [dirty] tricks
to hunt down people who were alone [and tempted] them to enter the
houses in which the Jews performed their [religious] rituals. Then
they would take those people's blood to make baked goods as part
of their festival rites … When many such incidents occurred,
the security forces [of the Arab and Muslim countries] followed [them] until
they caught the [Jewish] rabbis red-handed .” |
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“ In the book The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion and the Teachings of the Talmud by
Shawqi ‘Abd al-Nasser, the 24 th Protocol appears presenting
the goals the Jews aspire to by means of their [dirty] tricks,
false alliances and treachery. The free world - especially the
West and the United States, where the intentions of the Jews
have been revealed - must pay attention to them. The
Jews gnaw at society like a worm burrowing into wood and gnawing
at it until it has been eaten away although nothing can be seen
from the outside. [The West and the United States] must [therefore]
awaken and support the Muslims against [the Jews] before it is
too late .” |
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Accusation
against the Jews for having biased American policy as a result of
protests
against the aforementioned article by Dr. Jalahima |
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A column in the daily paper Al-Wattan by Eid
Falih al-Ghamidi accused the Jews of biasing American policy: “Every day
the lie of democracy is exposed in the land of the cowboys (i.e., the United
States). Every day we become more and more convinced that everything in
the United States is biased in favor of the Jews. The latest scandal was
the amazing, loathsome message from the American government broadcast by
the Voice of America last week which called for the Saudi Arabian government
and the governments of other Arab states to strongly and effectively intervene
to stop the media attacks which in American opinion encourage hatred against
the Jews… It never occurred to [the American government] that every
minute of the day the Jewish rabbis disseminate their evil and hatred for
all Arabs . The United States never interested itself in the overt
call of the Jews not only for the world to hate the Arabs but to
kill them as well !” (Al-Wattan, Saudi Arabia, March 29, 2002). |
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The symbol of the “Jewish snake” in
various contexts

Al-Wattan, October 3, 2002 [in the form of the Israeli anti-Terror
fence]
Al-Wattan, September 23,
2003 [in the form of a snake receiving a V.I.P welcome, most
probably into the Arab world, as a result of the peace process
in the Middle East]
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Al-Wattan, September 3, 2003
[in the form of a snake making a hole in the door of Iraq thus
paving the way for the American army]
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The Jews control American policy

The lobbying Zionist represented as Satan Al-Riyadh, August
9, 2003

Al-Riyadh, August 13, 2003

Al-Riyadh, August 22, 2003
The "classic" Jewish Stereotype
Detachment/Disengagement – [from] the Palestinian
problem
(Al-Youm, Saudi Arabia, January 10, 2004) |
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The rights of the Palestinian people – the right to self-determination (Al-Youm, Saudi
Arabia, January 9, 2004) |
The Jewish-Nazi motif

The two sides of the coin (Al-Youm, Saudi Arabia, August 8,
2003) |
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Radical religious Islam and anti-Semitism: In a book published
in Egypt, a Saudi Arabian lecturer, an “educator” who wrote Islamic
books for adults and youth, hurls vicious anti-Semitic epithets at
the Jews and preaches to Muslim youth to set out on a jihad [holy
war] against the West and its values.
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So That The
Youth Will Know
Author : ‘Abdallah Nasih 'Alwan
Publisher : Dar al-Salaam, Cairo
Date of publication : 1998 (Second edition)
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So That The Youth Will Know , supposedly
an educational book for young Muslims, reflects the radical worldview of
the Muslim Brotherhood and uses crude anti-Semitic
language in reference to the Jews . Emphasis is put on the various
elements of jihad, including glorifying the value of the death of a martyr
for the sake of Allah, which the author elevates to the rank of “to be
or not to be” for what he perceives as [the ultimate mission of] the true
Islam. The book, which was a bestseller in Egypt, clearly reflects
the ideology advocated by bin Laden and his supporters . |
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The following are excerpts from the book: |
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“It is the duty of Muslims to make
the entire world [!] subservient to the rule of Allah ,
and to fight every despotic ruler presenting an obstacle to [spreading]
the message of Islam to the nations of the world…” (p. 98). “When
the Islamic state becomes a reality and Muslims have a religious
ruler [Imam] to unite them, it will be the duty of the
Muslim nation to make the world subservient to the rule of Allah .
Then militant jihad will be carried out within ‘the house of war'
( Dar al-Harb )” (p. 100). |
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“No nation, in the past or in modern times,
has hoisted the flag of deceit, evil and treachery as have
the Jews . Throughout history and throughout the world,
no member of the human race has acted with such evil and corruption
and created such conflicts among nations as have
the Jews” (pp. 23-24). |
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“One of the things you must be aware of is the schemes
devised by the Zionists, Freemasons, Crusaders and Communists ,
all of whose goal is to corrupt Islamic societies with
wine and sex and by releasing restraints on the baser instincts” (p.
136). “In The Protocols of the Elders of Zion it
is written: ‘We must act to undermine morality everywhere, and then
it will be easier for us to take control' [of the word]” (p. 137). |
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“In their Protocols the Jews
proclaimed that they were making every effort to corrupt human conscience
by casting doubt upon morality and religious beliefs, and that they
take under their wing any person who is diabolical and an abomination,
who on one occasion calls for the destruction of religious faith and
on another for the destruction of virtue” (p. 137). |
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“The Jews have advanced so far down the
path of corrupting humanity that they have devised a method and begun
to apply it. They do it by means of the communications media,
publishing houses, the theatre, movies and radio, aided by the treacherous
collaborators whose pens they have bought . Their baseness
and deceit have made it possible for them to corrupt entire
nations . Their wiles and slyness have made it possible
for them to control the university departments
of psychology and social science in Europe, the United States and
most of the Middle Eastern countries” (p. 139). |
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It is particularly important to note that So
That The Youth Will Know was a best-seller (having gone
through at least 9 printings!) in Egypt before 9/11 . It should
also be remembered that it was written by an academic scholar, “an
educator,” who wrote other books dealing with Islamic topics (such
as raising children in Islam) for both adults and young people. His
other books also combine radical Islamic views with anti-Semitism,
for example, Islam and the Palestinian Viewpoint , published
by Dar al-Salaam in 2001. Finally, despite the fact that the
book is directed against “infidel” Arab régimes, and by implication
the Egyptian as well, the Egyptian government never prevented the books
from being widely reprinted and sold! |
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Education
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educational system: an excerpt from an op-ed (Hebrew) article by senior
Israeli journalist and commentator on Arab and Islamic Affairs, Tzvi Bar-el,
in the respected Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, February 16, 2002, entitled
“We won't stop educating toward the defeat of the Jews ” |
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“…and there is one issue that is being talked
about a lot in the streets of Riyadh and has become the focus of the disagreement
between the American government and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia invested
millions of dollars in establishing religious schools in Afghanistan and
Pakistan and other Muslim countries. According to Hamid Gul, former director-general
of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (and currently strategic adviser
to Pakistan's radical Islamic parties), Saudi Arabia allotted $10 billion,
far more than the Iranians, to financing religious activity in Islamic
countries. The budget was the result of a compromise between the radical
Muslim groups in Saudi Arabia and the royal family, which felt that responding
positively to their demand would buy the kingdom internal peace and quiet". |
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“However, the American government
now demands that the educational system, especially within Saudi Arabia,
change its curriculum to remove anti-Western and anti-Jewish propaganda
from the textbooks and stop advocating attacks against those two targets.
Textbooks geared to elementary school students in Saudi Arabia contain
interpretations for well-known sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, at the
end of which are questions, for example, “Who will defeat the Jews?”
or a question for class discussion, “Will the Jews and Christians ever
recognize Islam and why?” In another exercise the students are required
to name 4 factors which will assure the victory of Muslims over their
enemies. In textbooks of Qur'anic interpretations there are detailed
explanations as to why the Banu Nadir Jewish tribe was exiled by the
Prophet Muhammad: “It was because God is merciful that they were only
exiled. Otherwise it would have been necessary to punish them with torture
and death because they acted against the will of God.” |
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In Saudi Arabia the American demands have caused
a great turmoil. Muhammad Rashid, the Minister of Education, rejects the
idea that Saudi Arabia will change its curriculum, and according to the
Saudi daily Al-Jazeera, it is the American curriculum which encourages
terrorism. The issue has become part of public discourse in Saudi
Arabia and in our assessment, in all likelihood will not ease the tense
relationship existing between the United States and Saudi Arabia [since
the events of 9/11]. |