From the Dispatches series 1996
Filmed covertly in Saudi Arabia, tells the story of one of the 2,000 Filipinos who leave their country every year to work abroad. The woman, whose youngest daughter is in need of a heart operation, left her family two years earlier to work in Saudi Arabia. She ran away from her first employer, who not only failed to pay her but subjected her to abuse and took away her passport. For the next two years, she was passed from household to household, working as an unpaid maid. Eventually, she had to turn to illegal means to escape from her desperate situation. Broadcast on Channel Four in February 1996 in the `Dispatches' series.
The invasion of Iraq has fuelled anti-western sentiment in Saudi Arabia, strengthening grassroots’ support for terrorist organisations.
Allan Gerson has sued Saudi charities, banks and members of the royal family for two trillion dollars. He accuses them of financing the September 11 attacks and Bali bombing: “We have seen evidence of money that went from Saudi sources through various entities in Europe to support terrorist cells.” These allegations are strenuously denied by Crown Prince Abdullah, ruler of Saudi Arabia. However, there is a growing gulf between the governing elite and their subjects and many Saudis are angered by America’s unwavering support for Israel. “The more the Palestinians are oppressed and the more the Americans support Israel, the more popular bin Laden and his like becomes,” explains Saudi writer Sulayman Al-Hattlan. “Osama stood up for people who were quiet ... He told the States I'm not afraid of you,” admires one student. Her friend agrees: “If Bush makes us choose between our religion or hurting our people, we're going to choose our religion.” Images of the bombing of Baghdad can only galvanise support for Islamic fundamentalists prepared to bank-roll Al-Qaeda.
ABC Australia
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Why do they hate us? was a universally asked question in the United States following the 9/11 attacks. A majority on the Left and a sizable minority on the Right believe it was blow-back from our imperialistic foreign policy in the Middle East. They consistently cite three primary offenses: US support for repressive Arab regimes, US support for Israel, and the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia.
If those are the root causes, why did the United States come under Jihadist assault only 7 years after the Declaration of Independence, when we had only just won the right to our own land, and had not the will nor the means to impose our alleged imperialist ambitions on the Middle East?
"America's First Jihad" by Andrew Bostom:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/...
The Battle of Badr:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o...
"Booty" verses in the Koran:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/28...
By popular request here's a direct link to Quran Sura 8:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/008...
The House of Saud has controlled every aspect of Saudi life and politics since the kingdom was established in 1932. But outside the Desert Kingdom, little is known about Saudi Arabia's secretive royal family. In "House of Saud," Frontline explores how the Al Saud family maintains its hold on power in the face of growing tensions between Islam and modernity. Through interviews with members of the royal family, government officials and other experts from Saudi Arabia and the U.S., the two-hour documentary also traces America's relations with the Saudi royal family from their first alliance in the 1930s through Sept. 11 and beyond to the present day.
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jihad rehab
An outragious act of taqyya by the saudis! This is the film to keep in mind the next time a jihadist in the west avoids deportation because he might be tortured. Off course the western media falls right into the trap. Just read the below introtext taken from the BBC website. Instead of reading "saudis once again lying through their teeth" it says...
"Jihad Rehab
In Saudi Arabia the government's employing a radical approach to win back the hearts and minds of those who've committed atrocities on behalf of organisations like Al Qaeda. Shiraz Maher reports on turning young men away from extremism, Saudi style.
In a small compound on the outskirts of Riyadh, the Saudi government is exploring new ways to combat extremism
This is still a prison, run by the Ministry of Interior and housed inside secure premises with high perimeter walls and barbed wire, but the Saudi authorities prefer to call it a "care centre" and refer to prisoners as "beneficiaries".
This is not what you would imagine when you think of a typical Saudi jail.
Inside, prisoners enjoy access to wide-ranging recreational facilities including their own swimming pools, video games and table tennis.
In return for the more relaxed environment, prisoners have to attend religious education classes where Islamic scholars challenge their views.
The thinking behind the new initiative is to fight al-Qaeda's ideology by convincing militant Islamists they have a distorted view of Islam.
The Ministry of Interior oversees the new scheme and has created the Ideological Security Unit (ISU) dedicated to co-ordinating their efforts.
"You cannot defeat an ideology by force. You have to fight ideas with ideas," says Abdul-Rahman Hadlaq, ISU director.
But the centre goes beyond just debating ideas. It also encourages prisoners to express their "softer side" by running art therapy classes where inmates find alternative ways to express themselves.
Remarkable survival
Saudi authorities are keen to stress that any convicted Islamist will be offered a chance at rehabilitation, regardless of past crimes.
Ahmed Shayea drove a massive truck bomb into the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in August 2003, killing nine people and injuring more than 60.
It was the first major bombing carried out by the insurgency and was designed to announce al-Qaeda's arrival in Iraq.
Shayea survived the bombing and was held at the care centre after being repatriated from Iraq by US forces.Ahmed Shayea
"I am now an enemy of al-Qaeda. I believe God saved me to deliver this message," says the former militant.
Families are also heavily involved in the rehabilitation of their loved ones. The authorities encourage them to make regular visits to the centre and inmates are allowed to make occasional visits home unescorted on the understanding that they will return later.
It is designed to prepare prisoners for their eventual release while building trust between them and the government. It has proved particularly relevant for Saudis being repatriated from the detention centre run by the US military at Guantanamo Bay.
After returning to the Kingdom they are typically held at the care centre for a few months before being finally released.
"It prepared me to go back into society gradually. You cannot just go from Guantanamo back to normal life. It's too difficult. Everything changed. Saudi Arabia changed. The whole world changed," says Juma Muhammad Dossari who spent six years in Guantanamo Bay.
"I have a great wife. She tells me to forget Guantanamo. She says: 'Just forget it'. She says: 'You're a new man. You have a new life. You have your family. Focus on that.' That makes me feel much better."
Financial arrangement
Since its creation no-one from the care centre has reoffended.
But the support received by prisoners on their release suggests their reasons for maintaining good behaviour might not always reflect genuine ideological change.Art by former Saudi militants
Graduates can typically expect the government to meet the cost of their wedding and have also enjoyed home refurbishments along with new cars.
It might sound alarming to outsiders, but most Saudis are comfortable with the arrangement.
"As a [Western] person you might question this - but when I put on my Saudi hat, I think, it was the right decision" says Khalid al-Maeena, editor of the English-language Arab News.
"We are a patriarchal society. These people are sons of the soil. When a son makes a mistake, the father forgives him and the King has pardoned them."
The centre has only been open for 18 months and most of those currently passing through it are al-Qaeda's foot soldiers, not its ideologues.
Convincing those people to change their minds might take a lot more than video games, Pepsi and ping-pong.
On 30/9/05 cartoons of Mohammed were published in a Danish newspaper; inciting Muslims to burn Danish flags/embassies all over the world. This documentary examines the consequences of that fateful event & the cost to our democratic freedom of expression.
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Aired: September 1, 2008 on Channel 4 In a follow-up to the initial investigation, a female Dispatches reporter goes undercover again to see whether extremist beliefs are still being promoted in certain British Muslim institutions. The documentary also looks at the role of the Saudi Arabian religious establishment in spreading a hardline Islamic ideology in the UK
Undercover Moschee ( Deutsche Untertitel) from eric hanson on Vimeo.
This documentary may be one of the most important films on islam in europe to date. It is the film which everyone should keep in mind when hearing the deceitful word... "Islamophobia". As if rational concern about political matters is a mental illness. For people who know about islam in the middle east, its early history and its alliance with germany in the two world wars, this is just what one would expect in a mainstream mosque. And I believe that the brittish outcry that followed its release was mainly caused by the fact that people were shocked about this not being reported earlier. This documentary is also particularly interesting because it shows how dissimulation and lying for the good of islam is practised on a blaspemically/prudently large scale each and everytime a mosque is confronted with the videos displaying their racist, male-muslim supremacy, high-treason preachings. They again and again made absurd claims of misqoutation and being victims of "anti-muslim hostility"
If this kind of lying was not stated in the Quran and happening all the time I would have taken it as a sign of brittish muslims reading too much Lewis Carrol in public school.
"Prime Minister Tony Blair recently described tolerance as 'what makes Britain Britain' but in this extensive investigation Dispatches reveals how a message of hatred and segregation is being spread throughout the UK and examines how it is influenced by the religious establishment of Saudi Arabia.
Dispatches has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But an undercover reporter joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached.
He captures chilling sermons in which Saudi-trained preachers proclaim the supremacy of Islam, preach hatred for non-Muslims and for Muslims who do not follow their extreme beliefs - and predict a coming jihad. "An army of Muslims will arise," announces one preacher. Another preacher said British Muslims must "dismantle" British democracy - they must "live like a state within a state" until they are "strong enough to take over."
The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word. And the Dispatches reporter discovers that British Muslims can ask for fatwas, religious rulings, direct from the top religious leader in Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mufti.
Saudi-trained preachers are also promoted in DVDs and books on sale at religious centres and sermons broadcast on websites. These publications and webcasts disseminate beliefs about women such as: "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete", and girls: "By the age of 10 if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her," and there's an extreme hostility towards homosexuals.
The investigation reveals that the influence of Saudi Arabian Islam, Wahabism, extends beyond the walls of some mosques to influential organisations that advise the British government on inter-community relations and prevention of terrorism.
The Dispatches reporter attends talks at mosques run by key organisations whose public faces are presented as moderate and mainstream - and finds preachers condemning the idea of integration into British society, condemning British democracy as un-Islamic and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers.
Undercover Mosque features interviews with moderate British Muslim figures who are speaking out against the influence of Saudi Arabia's extreme brand of Islam, which is seeking to overturn Islamic traditions of diversity and peaceful co-existence: "We are losing our children to extremists," says Haras Rafiq of the Sufi Muslim Council. Dr Al Alawi of the Islamic Heritage Foundation also warns: "If this continues, you will have extremist mosques in every corner of the UK. You will not have moderate Muslims walking on our streets anymore."
UPDATE:
Police complaint
Follow-up interview with Abu Husama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTicy8Xpjc
2. update
Police excuse their behaviour towards the filmmakers: