Money is a form of privilege, particularly when the money comes from just pumping oil out of the ground, and the rights to the ground were given to the Arab Moslems by the Brits and the Americans in the 1930’s. The Western powers set up and created the House of Saud and declared it to be the owner of the oil.
There are about 5000 Saudi princes. Only a few hundred are 1st generation decendants of the original King. The vast majority are second or third or fourth generation.
So far nobody in the second generation removed from the original King has become King. So, there’s a power struggle waiting in the wings.
But in the meantime, the conduct of some of the Saudi princes has been totally deplorable.
A few hundred of them routinely give huge amounts of the money to support the Madrassas movement around the world. These are schools in which very young people are trained so they are mentally ready to become suicide bombers. They must go on after the Madrassas to a Terrorist Training Camp, where they learn the operational techniques of killing Westerners with explosives and poisons.
Here’s what I think makes sense morally at this point. The Saudi Peninsula should be re-taken by the British and the Americans.
The several hundred Saudi princes that have actively supported the Madrassas movement should be put in Orange Jumpsuits and taken to Guantanamo, or maybe to a facility on Tristan de Cuna.
The remaining Saudi princes should get job training and career counselling. The women should get annuities so they have financial support that does not depend on any Saudi man.
All the the oil pumped from now on should be sold on the world market, except not to enemies of the USA and Britain (not to North Korea for example).
The cash should be used to create and set up Moslem Re-Education Centers all over the world to de-program people and if possible reverse the effect of the Madrassas movement.
Moslems should be taught that killing Westerners is not what Allah wants, that Allah will be angry with them if they do that. That it is not an automatic ticket into Paradise, in fact if innocent Westerners are killed, Allah will not permit that Moslem to enter Paradise.
It’s a U turn that’s required. And it should be paid for with money from the oil that is now called “saudi oil” — but actually is up for grabs, and we should grab it, and re-designate the use of the money it generates until the re-education process is complete, which I think would take about 75 years.
The Re-education Centers should be run by authentic genuine Imams who just happen to believe that homicidal lunacy is not acceptable conduct for Moslems, if any such people can be found.
If they cannot, then the major universities of the West should create Departments that are designed to investigate the Koran, and see if there is anything in it that would support a non-homicidal approach to Westerners. Imams can be generated, if the text of the Koran permits such an interpretation.
In any case, the very best possible people should be in charge of the re-education centers. They should have leadership qualities, and sermon writing skills and verbal delivery skills, so that they make a huge impact on the students.
Moslem nations should be told that the foreign assistance support they get from the West is entirely dependent on how many of their popualtion graduate from a Moslem Re-Education Center. This would be a four year program, leading to a Bachelor’s Degree in Non-Violent Islamic Studies.
Any students receiving such a degree would be entitled to two years of vocational training, and a year of job placement counselling.
This would all be paid for with the same saudi iol money that created the problem in the first place.
This would be a U Turn that fixes the problem.
Fixing problems is something we no longer know how to do, so any suggestion made in good faith, should be taken seriously, and considered by the Powers that Be.
Another 10 years and they won’t be powers anymore, if things keep going as they are. So it’s kind of a use it or lose it situation for USA and Great Britain. Solve the problem, or it will eliminate the present world order. Act or be passive. Live or die.
This is a choice that can be made by people who are not actually as smart as Albert Einstein. Even us!
For Maria:
Yes, I am talking about a worldwide moral code against first degree murder.
If you think this is part of my own personal culture, and that it would be wrong for me to impose my personal culture on the dear Saudi Royals, yes, then OK, I want to be wrong according to Maria.
We have to face a real problem, not an abstract moral dilemma about multi-culti psycho-babble. There are a billion people out there, and a very significant percentage of them have been brainwashed into the idea that Allah wants them to commit first degree murder on Americans and that if they do, they will go to Paradise.
You say I should value their culture as highly as my own. I say anybody that puts value on first degree murder is crazy, I don’t care what culture they come from — could be Saudi Arabia, could be American psycho-babble multi-culti High Schools.
It will cost a lot to de-program 1 billion people. Let it be Saudi money. So we need to take the oil, so the remedy can begin.
For Maria Part Two:
Yes, I would like to change their beliefs.
So instead of believing that Allah wanst them to kill Americans and they will go to Paradise if they do …
they now believe
Allah does not want them to kill Americans, or commit any other first degree murder against anybody else, and that if they do they will not go to Paradise.
You call this the Western Bandwagon. Why not just commit a couple of muders in Singapore, or Japan, or China — you will see that my idea is not actually the Western Bandwagon. It’s what all civilized people of very nation (except Saudi Arabia and their brainwashed Madrassas students) believe.
We have become so lost in value free multi-culti nonsense that our High School graduates are unable to muster the intellectual focus to stand up for the prepremptory norms of human conduct.
No culture anywhere acts like murderers and holds that a value except the Saudis.
I’m no cultural imperialist, just a regular person with values.