Excellent column, thank you.
But I disagree with this:
Propaganda is carried on from Riyadh on a scale comparable to Moscow’s effort to spread communism.
The truth is that the saudis are moving a war against Freedom that is FAR LARGER AND DEEPER than anything the old evil empire could do.
The saudis are BUYING our elites: they buy our universities, they buy our “journalists”, they buy our politicians.
They have an immense reserve of money: OUR money.
We could build an immense range of nuclear power plants, we could tap into immense reserves of oil and gas: we don’t do it because the saudis have bought our politicians, and our money goes to the saudis to help the expansion of islam.
Without our bribed politicians and journalists (and pseudo “intellectuals”), the only power behind islam would be…sand.
It’s important that we understand the danger of islam, but it is important that we understand why and how the danger is growing so quickly.
It’s our money that it is financing the war against Freedom.
Starve the monster.
