Guest guest Posted April 5, 2003 Report Share Posted April 5, 2003 cross post The article below shows how Saudi funded institutions shaped the US Army manwho recently killed his fellow Americans in the Iraq war.(Also, see the following site for an overview of the multi-billion dollarSaudi program to spread its version of Islam worldwide:http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com/issues/20030131/feat1en.htmNOTE IN PARTICULAR THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY CHAIRS AT HARVARD AND U OFCALIFORNIA:King Fahd Chair for Sharia Studies at Harvard University.King Abdul Aziz Chair at the University of California.See overview of such Saudi academic programs in USA:http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/408No wonder some Indian leftists on the Harvard faculty mobilized tounsuccessfully get Infinity Foundation blackballed. THEY HAD SOLD OUT TOTHESE BIG MONEY INFLUENCES.)-------------------------http://www.nationalreview.com/mowbray/mowbray040303.aspBEGIN QUOTE:Joel Mowbray, “The House that Raised Akbar: An Army Sergeant’s Ties to SaudiArabia.” April 3rd 2003.[Author’s home page:http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/archive.shtml ]With the Islamic connection virtually undeniable in the Asan Akbar grenadecase, the question inevitably arises: Where is the Saudi money?Akbar is the black Muslim Army sergeant who, after killing two and wounding14 of his fellow soldiers when he hurled a grenade into a tent in Kuwait,ranted, "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape ourwomen and kill our children." So, what about the Saudi money? It's not somuch a case of paranoia, as it is a realization that Saudi money has aneerie habit of popping up around Islamic extremism the world over. And inthe case of Akbar, the answer is: everywhere.Akbar grew up attending a Saudi-funded mosque in South Central Los Angeles,and later moved to a mosque dominated by a Saudi-created and -fundedorganization. In the military, his Muslim chaplain at Fort Campbell wastrained and certified by Saudi-funded organizations set up by a Muslimactivist with deep Saudi ties. It's possible that all this Saudi moneyproduced no Islamic extremism at any of these points in Akbar's life — butempirical evidence suggests that that's unlikely.Attending the mosque across the street from his home, the young Akbar spenta lot of time during his formative years at the Bilal Islamic Center,according to the center's imam, Abdul Karim Hasan. Hasan, in a phoneinterview with NRO, recalls a "reserved" and "studious" boy. But when askedabout any possible Saudi connection to his mosque, Hasan — perhapsunderstandably defensive, in the current anti-Saudi climate — is quick tosay that he does not take money from the "Saudi government," though heconceded that he receives funds from Saudi "individuals." That's notentirely true, however.According to the website of the Islamic Development Bank — amultibillion-dollar investment outfit run by many Arab governments, butbased in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — Bilal Islamic Center recently received a$295,000 grant from ISD to build a new school. Considering the statedpurpose of ISD — to advance Muslim communities in accordance with sharia(Islamic law) — one wonders what the center's new school will be teaching.But it's not just the money that raises questions. Bilal Islamic Center"works closely" with the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City (roughly 45 minutesfrom South Central LA), according to a source at the Culver City mosque —which is not just named after King Fahd, but is also funded by him. Andbased on the annual statement<http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com/issues/20030131/feat1en.htm> released by theHouse of Saud on its efforts to spread Islam throughout the world, BilalIslamic Center is also funded by the kingdom (under the name "Bilal Mosqueof Los Angeles"), although the exact amount is not specified.When Akbar left for college in 1989, he did not leave the Saudi-fundedexperience behind. At the University of California at Davis, Akbar was seenby friends as a devout Muslim, and multiple reports state that he spentlarge amounts of time at the nearby Islamic Center of Davis. That center, asit happens, is home to the UC-Davis chapter of the Muslim StudentsAssociation, a Saudi-created and -funded national organization with brancheson campuses across the country. It is also the past, and possibly thepresent, home to someone with surprisingly similar anti-American sentiments.In a puff piece in December 2000 on the Muslim students of the IslamicCenter of Davis, then third-year law student Masood Khan spouted vitrioliccontempt for America, which in many ways mirrors what Akbar said whilecowering in the bunker after his killing spree. "There have been over onemillion innocent Iraqis killed by the United States," Khan said. "It's a warcrime." Not a far cry from the equally obscene comment from Akbar that "youguys" are going to "rape our women and kill our children."While stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Akbar was one of roughly 20soldiers who attended weekly services — and his Muslim chaplain there wastrained and certified by institutions with significant Saudi funding. Capt.Mohammed Khan, who is overseas with the 101st Airborne Division, became theArmy's second Muslim chaplain in 1997 (there are now seven). According to amilitary source, Capt. Khan trained at the Graduate School of Islamic SocialSciences (GSISS), which has a history of Saudi funding and was one of 24Muslim organizations raided last year as part of Operation Greenquest, themulti-agency investigation of terrorist funding launched by the Treasurydepartment. Khan was certified by the Islamic Society of North America(ISNA), which was not raided but is affiliated with the SAAR network (namedfor its wealthy Saudi benefactor Suleiman Abdel Aziz al-Raghi).To be fair, at the time he received his training and certification, thoseinstitutions were the only option available to him. But he does have someWahhabist ties. At an interfaith memorial service marking the anniversary ofthe murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Capt. Khan read astatement from the imam at King Fahd Mosque — the same one that enjoys aclose relationship with the Bilal Islamic Center.The Muslim chaplain program that Khan completed was created over a decadeago with the help of Ihsan Bagby, a man who himself has plenty of Saudities. In a phone interview with NRO, Bagby, an African-American convert toIslam, said that he sees nothing wrong or sinister with money coming fromSaudi Arabia. Before he started at his current position at the University ofKentucky, Bagby was a professor at Shaw University, a black Baptist schoolin North Carolina that has received substantial Saudi cash. The on-campusmosque at Shaw was built with a $1 million grant in 1983 from the Saudiking. In 1989, Prince Abdulla Al-Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia gave theschool, in exchange for an honorary doctorate, a bowl made of lapis stoneand encrusted with diamonds and pearls, estimated at $500,000.While Bagby seemed perfectly reasonable in several phone conversations, backin the late '80s, he made a rather extreme statement about the role ofMuslims in American society: "Ultimately we can never be full citizens ofthis country, because there is no way we can be fully committed to theinstitutions and ideologies of this country."Bagby believes that the tidal wave of Saudi cash washing up on our shorescould potentially be problematic, but that it's not, because it has minimalimpact. "[saudi funding] would be sinister if they were trying to ram downpeople's throats Wahhabism, but that's simply not true." But countlessreports from around the world indicate that the Saudis do in fact "ram"Wahhabism "down people's throats." Even an imam based at the Bilal IslamicCenter has indicated as much. In a 1999 interview with the Los AngelesTimes, Imam Deen Mohammed praised King Fahd for his financial support ofIslam, though he acknowledged that when Saudis give money, the unspoken ruleis that "'we want you to . . . prefer our [Wahhabi] school of thought.'That's in there whether they say it or not."The web of Saudi money covering almost every stage of Akbar's Islamicdevelopment does not necessarily mean that the Saudi cash fostered extremismat either Islamic center Akbar attended or the chaplain-training provided toCapt. Khan — but the confluence of Saudi money must at least be scrutinized.The memories of Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert and Maj. 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