Get tough with Saudis

By Joseph Farah

It’s time to take the kid gloves off in our dealings with Saudi Arabia.

It’s time to recognize Saudi Arabia is one of the most evil, diabolical and repressive regimes on the face of the earth.

It’s time to get tough with the duplicitous rulers of Saudi Arabia, who feign moderation but practice extremism and finance holy war against us.

Americans are becoming aware of the horrors perpetrated by this so-called “friend of the United States” thanks to the heroic work of Pat Roush, a mother who learned of the evil firsthand when her young daughters – both American citizens – were kidnapped from her and taken to Saudi Arabia. While Roush, author of “At Any Price,” continues to fight for freedom and justice for her daughters – now grown adults – she is raising consciousness about hundreds, if not thousands, of other similar cases.

It’s time to bring our American citizens home from the evil kingdom. Would we accept this kind of behavior from any other country in the world? Why does our government yield to the backward traditions of a theocracy in Saudi Arabia?

Right now, another American woman, Sarah Saga, is holed up with her children in the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah. State Department officials have permitted Saudis into this sovereign U.S. territory to threaten and intimidate the young mother – a kidnap victim herself. She wants only to come home with her children. The Saudis say she can go, but she must leave behind her 3-year-old and 5-year-old – also Americans according to our laws.

It’s time to recognize what Saudi Arabia represents. This is the country that produced the Sept. 11 hijackers. This is the country that spreads jihadist hate in madrasses around the world. This is the country that prohibits women from exercising the most basic of rights. This is the country that gave us Osama bin Laden. This is the country that sponsored the Taliban of Afghanistan. This is the country that bans any form of Jewish or Christian worship – even in the privacy of homes. This is the country that bans any non-Muslims even from setting foot in their so-called “holy city” of Mecca.

And this is the country that is holding American citizens hostage.

In addition, revelations published in WorldNetDaily last week show Saudi Arabia is making plans to build or buy nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles to fire them.

When are we going to wake up in America? What will it take? What does Saudi Arabia have to do to us before we recognize it as the sworn enemy of everything we hold near and dear?

Saudi Arabia sends its slick and polished, American-educated public relations experts here to explain away all these contradictions. Too many people believe them. Too many just don’t care. Too many look the other way because of the oil power the Saudis wield.

Am I calling for war on the Saudis? No. I’m simply saying it’s time to get tough. It’s time to demand justice. It’s time to throw our considerable weight around with the sheikhs. It’s time to stop playing Mr. Nice Guy. It’s time to stop pretending the Saudis are anything but extremists who underwrite most of the terrorism in the world. It’s time to recognize they are sticking their finger in America’s eye, insulting us and holding our fellow citizens against their will.

America has the power to bring its people home. It can do it tomorrow. It only takes the will.

Let the White House and the State Department know where you stand.


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Joseph Farah

Joseph Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND. He is the author or co-author of 13 books that have sold more than 5 million copies, including his latest, "The Gospel in Every Book of the Old Testament." Before launching WND as the first independent online news outlet in 1997, he served as editor in chief of major market dailies including the legendary Sacramento Union. Read more of Joseph Farah's articles here.