The Saudi Stink of Hypocrisy
The Arabian kingdom
projects its human rights abuses on… Australia?
Tue Oct 15, 2019
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman
Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Saudi Arabia continues to
demonstrate why it is the “world’s greatest hypocrite.”
After Australia recently
condemned the Islamic kingdom of human rights abuses, the latter launched an “extraordinary”
tirade. Saudi ambassador, Abdulaziz Alwasil, projected everything his
nation does onto Australia. He claimed that minorities, migrants and
Muslims face “horrific violations of human rights” and “racist and extremist
policies…. We see in some countries, radicalism against Muslims, we see xenophobia,
racism. And some governments sympathise with them [xenophobes and racists],
like Australia. Here we refer to the massacre perpetrated by Brenton Tarrant –
an Australian – which was based on hate speech.”
Some context is desperately needed:
Saudi Arabia is where not a single non-Muslim building of worship is allowed;
its highest Islamic authority decreed that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.” Whenever Christians are
suspected of meeting in a house for worship—or as one Saudi official once
complained, “plotting to celebrate Christmas”—they are arrested and punished. Any cross or other non-Muslim symbol found is confiscated and
destroyed. Anyone caught trying to smuggle Bibles or any other “publications that have prejudice to any other religious belief
other than Islam” can be executed.
A Colombian soccer-player “was
arrested by the Saudi moral police after customers in a Riyadh shopping mall
expressed outrage over the sports player’s religious tattoos, which included
the face of Jesus of
Nazareth on his arm.” A Romanian player kissed the tattoo of a cross he
had on his arm after scoring a goal, causing public outrage.
As for “hate speech,” Saudi
Arabia has an online fatwa, an Islamic-sanctioned
opinion — in Arabic only—entitled, “Duty to Hate Jews, Polytheists, and Other
Infidels” (my translation here). It comes from the fatwa wing of the
government, meaning it has the full weight of the government behind
it. According to this governmentally-supported fatwa, all Muslims must
“oppose and hate whomever Allah commands us to oppose and hate, including the
Jews, the Christians, and other mushrikin [polytheists],
until they believe in Allah alone and abide by his laws, which he sent down to
his Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him” (see Koran 60:4).
Yet here is Saudi Arabia
accusing Australia—where Islam is freely practiced, where mosques and Korans
proliferate, and where Muslims are granted full equality—of “horrific
violations of human rights.”
As for “racism” and
“xenophobia”—which Saudi Arabia accuses Down Under of—in fact, few people are
as clannish and racist as those of the Arabian Peninsula. Ten percent of the population is
openly denied equal rights because of their race; black men are barred from
holding many government positions; black women are often put on trial for
“witchcraft”; castrated African slaves are sold on Facebook in the birthplace
of Islam, and its princes are known to beat their black slaves to death. Human Rights Watch has described conditions for foreign workers
in Saudi Arabia as resembling slavery.
Worse of all is if you’re
black and Christian.
After 35 Christian Ethiopians were arrested and abused in prison for almost a
year—simply for holding a private house prayer—one of them said after being
released: “They [Saudis] are full of hatred towards non-Muslims.”
This is unsurprising
considering that the Saudi education system makes it a point to indoctrinate Muslim children with
hatred, teaching that “the Apes are the people of the Sabbath, the Jews; and
the Swine are the infidels of the communion of Jesus, the Christians.”
According to Saudi novelist Hani Naqshabandi, “Our religious
institutions do not give us room to exercise free thought…. They [Saudi
institutions] said that the Christian is an infidel, a denizen of hell, an
enemy to Allah and Islam. So we said, ‘Allah’s curse on them.’”
Again, bear in mind that all of
this hate, racism, and xenophobia is official
Saudi policy—as opposed to the aberrant terrorist act of one
Australian who was duly condemned and punished.
In short, Saudi Arabia and ISIS
have much in common. The only difference is that the Arabian kingdom is
filthy rich; it can be unabashedly hypocritical—not least because both the UN
and USA play along. The former counts Saudi Arabia as one of
“47 member states to promote human rights,” while the latter calls it “friend
and ally.”
Expecting a hypocrite to reform
when you yourself—that is, your elected representatives—are part of his charade
is, as might be imagined, futile.
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