NEWS: The Two Faces of Saudi Leadership - still divided over Al-Qaeda, page 1

An article that states the Saudi Royal House still divided over Al-Qaeda, shows the difficulties within the Saudi government to help with the war on terror. On one hand you have the amnesty ultimatum to Al-Qaeda and on the other you see a sermon broadcast over gov't airwaves calling on all muslims to defeat the deviates,(christians, jews)

Saudi Dvided over Al-Qaeda
The Saudi ruling establishment is still deeply split between reformist elements and those still willing to collaborate with the Islamic militants in order to derail even the most incremental changes in Saudi way of life.

This was evident in the decision by one of the country’s main official government-owned TV stations to air a recent sermon given by Sheikh Salah al-Budayyir.

In the sermon he says: "O Muslims, preserve the sanctity of Islam and protect Muslim society from being undermined by innovations, superstitions, sins, and offenses”.
The imam says: "O Muslims, the enemies of religion, including Jews,
Christians, atheists, and westernized deviates who rode their bandwagon,
continue to wage campaigns against the Islamic nation through the news media
and mail, whose contents are not secret to anyone. Their aim is to undermine
the faith of the nation, destroy its morals, wipe out its identity, and
divert it from its mission. Now how did Muslims face these campaigns? Did
they slam the door in their face? Did they fight them strongly? Did they
take the necessary precautions to stop the spread of evil and corruption"?

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It seems that the religious leaders are fearing that if the middle east starts a trend towards freedom, this would doom the form of Islam they preach, they prefer to keep a firm foot on the neck of the Arabs and what better target for them to lash out against, the Jews and Americans.

[edit on 30-6-2004 by Zion Mainframe]