The Saud House Of Hate.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)

Terrorism: Since 9-11, Americans have gotten used to thinking the terror threat lies "over there" -- across the Atlantic. A new report shows otherwise.

The report, by the widely respected human rights organization Freedom House, highlights efforts made by the government of Saudi Arabia -- that's right, the government -- to spread the extremist Wahhabi ideology here in the U.S.

Wahhabism is a fundamentalist form of Islam based on the extreme ideas of an 18th century Arabian mystic. It espouses an austere fundamentalism that is inimical to democracy, freedom and much of Western thought.

What does that have to do with the U.S.? Consider that the Saudi government spends millions of dollars here and elsewhere to promote Wahhabism. And despite Saudi statements to the contrary, Wahhabism preaches neither peace nor coexistence.

The Freedom Forum notes that Saudi money buys the most hateful kind of religious propaganda -- propaganda that can be used to encourage acts of disobedience and even terrorism. Some 200 documents were dredged up -- all on U.S. soil, all funded with Saudi money and all preaching the most loathsome forms of intolerance.

Consider the following statement, found in a book in the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles: "Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel."

Not exactly a blueprint for assimilation into American culture. And here's the kicker: The book in which this tract is found says: "Greetings from the Cultural Department" -- of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, D.C.