Read this London Times article about Saudis supplying the Jihadis and the money to kill our troops in the field and foster Islamist terror around the globe. If this doesn’t raise your blood to the boiling point, then I don’t know what will.

We at ACT have hammered home that the Saudis, far from being our allies in the war against Islamic terrorism, have been fomenting and abetting it. Witness this comment in this London Times article about putting GITMO detainees ‘on the dole’:

Former detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are also benefiting. To celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid, 55 prisoners were temporarily released last month and given the equivalent of £1,300 each to spend with their families.
School textbooks still teach the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious antiSemitic forgery, and preach hatred towards Christians, Jews and other religions, including Shi’ite Muslims, who are considered heretics.

Undersecretary of the Treasury for Financial Terrorism, Stuart Levey, was so frustrated last week in the wake of a listing of Saudi Arabia as a ‘valued” ally in the war against terrorism - whatever that means - that he cracked:

“If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia.”

Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania introduced a Saudi Accountability Act bill in the U.S. Senate recently to “end its support for institutions that fund, train, incite, encourage or in any other way aid and abet terrorism”.

Fat chance, that this will get any traction or support from the divided Bush Administration.

The reason?

I think this quote from Stephen Sulyeman Schwartz of the Center for Responsive (?) Islam in Washington, DC reveals the 800 pound elephant in the room. To wit:

“The urban legend is that George Bush and Dick Cheney are close to the Saudis because of oil and their past ties with them, but they’re pretty disillusioned with them,” said Stephen Schwartz, of the Centre for Islamic Pluralism in Washington. “The problem is that the Saudis have been part of American policy for so long that it’s not easy to work out a solution.”

What can ACT members do. For one thing they can write Senator Specter and Members of the Foreign Relations Committee expressing support for the proposed Saudi Arabia Accountability Act. For another we could write Treasury undersecretary Levey expressing support for his efforts to nail Saudi and other Gulf region funders of terrorism that kill our troops.

Further, we really have to get the big mo behind a push for a rational energy plan that should have been started decades ago, but wasn’t. That means expansion of domestic oil drilling in untapped areas-like the Gulf of Mexico, possibly Alaska. That means bringing on stream fast breeder nuclear power plants that those ‘greenies’ from the Environmental movement must love as they emit no pollution, cooking the billions of barrels in untapped reserves from the oil shale deposits in the Rockies, liquefying 200 to 300 years worth of coal reserves into refined oil products and dramatically upping the US EPA CAFE requirements for manufacture of high mileage automobiles. After all the nearly $100 a barrel for oil is more than enough an incentive to get moving, fast!! Remember, that Saudi lake of oil dries up by mid-century according to some petroleum policy wonks.

But remember we’ve been into the oil pockets of the Saudis according to author Rachel Bronson of “Thicker than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia” since the late President FDR stopped to ‘chat’ with another King Abdulazziz of Saudi Arabia at the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1945 after the infamous Yalta Conference.

This favored treatment for our Jihadi enemies as ‘valued allies’ has got to stop. Now is the time to do it as a ‘litmus test’ in the selection of political candidates for high office in the run up to the 2008 Presidential and Congressional campaigns.

This is the nadir of mainstream media blindness to the truth. Or is it further evidence of the dhimmification of America because of the oil of Saudi PR money. After all the ISA uses a school facility leased from Fairfax County, Virginia and the education supervisor can’t find anything objectionable in the English texts. But then he doesn’t read Arabic, does he

Look at some of the examples of what the IBD editorial has revealed about moral blindness at the Washington Post.

The commission presented no evidence, or even a credible
suggestion, that this is occurring at the Saudi academy,” the
Post editorial board opined. “Thus it was the commission that
crossed the lines.”

Take the Feb. 25, 2002, Post story headlined, “Where Two Worlds
Collide; Muslim Schools Face Tension of Islamic, U.S. Views.” It
noted that numerous textbooks used by the Islamic Saudi Academy
promote “hatred of non-Muslims and Shiite Muslims.”

“The 11th-grade textbook, for example, says one sign of the Day
of Judgment will be that Muslims will fight and kill Jews, who
will hide behind trees that say: ‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God,
here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him,’ ” the
article said.

ACT members ought to write Commissioner Nina Shea at the USCIRF and tell her of their support for the Commission’s recommendation to shut the ISA down until this Jihadist hate is purged and the connection to Saudi Arabia terminated.