Saudi Arabia and the global Islamic terrorist network
Subtitle: America and the West's fatal embrace
By: edited by Sarah N. Stern
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230112087
Subjects: Politics and government; Islam and politics; Relations; Muslims; Islam and state; Terrorism; Foreign relations; Government policy
Description: Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, ranging from lobbying to endowments to think tanks and policy centers, universities and workshops for teachers in kindergarten through twelfth grade, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by long-time experts in the fields of national security, foreign policy, education, and law, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore the Saudis' vast grip. It addresses how Saudi influence has eased the rise of domestic terrorism as well as a promulgation of pernicious ideas regarding American foreign policy. All this has produced a philosophy of moral equivalency, mitigating against a sense of American exceptionalism or a moral clarity of America's unique mission in the world. -- Product Description.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Cutting free from the Saudi oil noose / by James Woolsey; title: The scandal of United States-Saudi relations / by Daniel Pipes; title: Who is behind the Muslim mainstream organizations? / by Steve Emerson; title: CAIR unveiled / by Reed Rubenstein; title: Shariah- compliant finance: Saudi Arabia's Trojan horse / by Frank Gaffney; title: The stealth Saudi jihad into the American mind / by Sarah Stern; title: The stealth curriculum / by Sandra Stotsky; title: The Saudi penetration into American NGOs / by Kyle Shideler and Ilan Weinglass; title: The Saudis on J street / by Lenny Ben-David; title: All politics is local, the case of the Islamic Saudi Academy / by James Lafferty; title: Their oil is thicker than our blood / by Rachel Ehrenfeld; title: The impact of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Europe / by Bat Ye?or; title: The Organization of the Islam Conference, defamation of religion and Islamophobia / by Deborah Weiss; title: The "green corridor ': myth or reality? implications of Islamic geopolitical designs in the Balkans / by Srdja Trifkovic; title: Canada- Islamism's happy hunting ground / by David Harris; title: The way forward: looking backward and looking inward / by Sarah Stern.