NYT: Saudi Arabia Promotes Radical Islam

Here are the first few paragraphs of the lengthy but excellent article...

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store.

The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism — the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia — in the 17 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression.

Since then — much of that time under the watch of American officials — Saudi money and influence have transformed this once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadists.

Kosovo now finds itself, like the rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam. Over the last two years, the police have identified 314 Kosovars — including two suicide bombers, 44 women and 28 children — who have gone abroad to join the Islamic State, the highest number per capita in Europe.

They were radicalized and recruited, Kosovo investigators say, by a corps of extremist clerics and secretive associations funded by Saudi Arabia and other conservative Arab gulf states using an obscure, labyrinthine network of donations from charities, private individuals and government ministries.

“They promoted political Islam,” said Fatos Makolli, the director of Kosovo’s counterterrorism police. “They spent a lot of money to promote it through different programs mainly with young, vulnerable people, and they brought in a lot of Wahhabi and Salafi literature. They brought these people closer to radical political Islam, which resulted in their radicalization.”

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ETcallhome said:
I'm so confused. Is the New York Times good or bad?
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Every media outlet is both good and bad. And all of them have an agenda.

Take a look at the coverage through those lens.

For example, what type of coverage would you expect a New York based paper with decades of pro-Israel coverage and an editorial board including many Jewish members to have on the subject of Wahhabism. To be fair the New York Times does put out good in-depth articles.
 
The 28-pages from the 911 Commission Report say the Saudi's had four or five high level Government agents supporting the hijackers. Oh well.
 
That Turkey and Saudi-Arabia, states that finance and support Muslim terrorism, are considered allies is a statement to the outright lunacy of Western foreign policy.
 
gwb-trading said:
Every media outlet is both good and bad. And all of them have an agenda.

Take a look at the coverage through those lens.

For example, what type of coverage would you expect a New York based paper with decades of pro-Israel coverage and an editorial board including many Jewish members to have on the subject of Wahhabism. To be fair the New York Times does put out good in-depth articles.
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Papers like the NYT also are vehicles for advancing national policy, and they often hide behind putative demographic bias to do that.

We're $22T in debt and the empire needs to either expand, stiff its creditors or segue to a new economic order in order to fix the problem.
 
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