News and Analysis (9/30/16) Al-Ghazali accused the jurists of preferring "the management of
religious endowments ... and appointment to judicial and government
positions through which one exalts himself above his fellow men and
fastens his yoke on his enemies” over other disciplines such as
medicine:
"If American Jews heard gentiles with no background in Judaism
declaiming this way about our tradition, we’d be irate. If these
commentators displayed not merely ignorance about Judaism, but
hostility, we’d call them bigots":
“This is another failure by the top human rights body which shamefully
accepts the membership of Saudi Arabia, one of the most brutal and cruel
repressive states in the world, and allows it to dictate resolutions”
-- S. A. Alwadaei (Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy):
American armed FSA rebels share "operational planning with Jaish
al-Fatah, an alliance of Islamist groups that includes the former Syrian
wing of al Qaeda" and take part in a joint "offensive with the al
Qaeda-inspired Jund al-Aqsa group":
"The participation in Grozny of Egypt’s Sheikh El-Tayeb suggests that
substantial Saudi funding ... of Al Azhar’s scholars" and of military
dictator Al Sisi "has not bought the kingdom the kind of religious and
political loyalty it expected" ...
... while even the U.S. Congress prefers to compromise its own sovereign immunity rather than protect its Saudi ally:
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