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Viewing cable 06JEDDAH232, MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 17: AN

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06JEDDAH232 2006-03-22 06:43 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Consulate Jeddah
VZCZCXRO7448
PP RUEHBC RUEHDBU RUEHDE RUEHKUK RUEHLH RUEHMOS RUEHPW
DE RUEHJI #0232/01 0810643
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 220643Z MAR 06
FM AMCONSUL JEDDAH
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8941
INFO RUCNISL/ISLAMIC COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 1317
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 1389
RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH PRIORITY 6293
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEKJCS/DIA WASHDC PRIORITY
RHEHAAA/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 JEDDAH 000232 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
RIYADH, PLEASE PASS TO DHAHRAN; DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ARPI; 
PARIS FOR ZEYA; LONDON FOR TSOU 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/21/2015 
TAGS: ECON EFIN KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL
SUBJECT: MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 17:  AN 
ANTI-AMERICAN SERMON IN THE EASTER PROVINCE, AND IMAMS 
PREACH AGAINST CORRUPTION AND IN SUPPORT OF THE STOCK 
MARKET. 
 
 
Classified By: Consul General Tatiana Gfoeller, for reasons 
1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
FROM THE EASTERN PROVINCE:  AN ANTI-AMERICAN SERMON 
 
1.  (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar on 
March 17, Shaikh al-Qahtani delivered an aggressively 
anti-American sermon to an audience of approximately 500 
worshipers.  The sermon was the strongest condemnation of the 
Untied States yet delivered by this imam.  He began by 
recounting his recent visit to an old acquaintance who had 
graduated from an American university and continued living in 
the U.S. for many years.  The imam said he was shocked to 
find a sticker on his friend's door that displayed an 
American flag and the slogan "Keep it flying."  (Note:  He 
read the slogan in English and immediately translated it into 
Arabic.  End note.)  The imam remarked to the congregation 
that he could not comprehend how a Muslim could display the 
flag of a country that has been nothing but hostile to Arabs 
and Muslims. 
 
AMERICA DECEIVES MUSLIMS 
 
2.  (C) It was apparent from the imam's comments that he had 
done some research on USG public diplomacy programs in the 
Middle East.  The sermon continued with an attack on 
America's allies in the Middle East and their failed efforts 
to polish America's image.  He called on the congregation to 
never believe America and its supporters.  Muslims, "should 
restrict their judgment of the world's only superpower to its 
deeds."  He spoke of what he called "failed American efforts 
to improve its public image in Arab and Muslim countries, and 
that the status quo will continue and may even get worse as 
long as Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan and Palestine 
remain fresh on people's minds, unless, of course, the United 
States soon undertakes corrective measures."  The imam 
enumerated what he called America's failed propaganda wars 
meant to deceive and blind Arabs and Muslims alike, while its 
military and law enforcement authorities continue to target 
and discriminate against Muslims. 
 
HUGHES RESIGNS IN DESPAIR 
 
3.  (C) He then recounted the role of American officials, 
telling the congregation that Karen Hughes, the latest 
"American PR wizard" resigned (sic) out of sheer frustration 
despite her hard work and that this has also been the case 
with her predecessor."  COMMENT:  The correspondent notes 
that the imam seemed to appreciate Hughes' repeated visits to 
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey.  END COMMENT. 
 
U.S. WAR CRIMES RECOUNTED 
 
4.  (C) Warming to his theme, al-Qahtani then accused the 
United States of war crimes against many people, including 
Palestinians, Afghans, Iraqis, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese 
and even native American Indians.  He announced the number of 
killed and injured as a result of American "aggression."  He 
declared that Western policy is based on the principle of 
"Protecting the White Man" at any cost, including waging wars 
of genocide against others.  As an example, he noted how 
American settlers had reduced the number of native Americans 
from 15 million to a mere 200,000 in the early part of the 
Twentieth Century by resorting to wars, killings and other 
illegal and inhuman means, such as spreading communicable 
diseases among Indians, namely chicken pox.  He said the 
settlers accomplished this by giving the Indians contaminated 
blankets after they had been driven from their homes. 
Extending his antipathy beyond the United States, the imam 
cited other examples of genocide perpetrated against Muslims, 
including Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Spain and other places. 
 
IMAM CONDEMNS THE STOCK EXCHANGE, AS WELL. 
 
5.  (C) The second portion of his sermon was a reaction to 
the stock market decline in the Gulf states and Egypt in 
recent days.  He expressed displeasure that so many people 
had abandoned their homes and jobs just to focus on the stock 
market.  He criticized businesses for abandoning their real 
work to focus on the stock market.  "When ... an agricultural 
 
JEDDAH 00000232  002 OF 003 
 
 
company," he noted, "stops doing what it's supposed to do 
just for the sake of money (it) is inexcusable.  There's more 
to life than money.  We should all learn the lessons that can 
be derived from the crash.  Every man and woman should 
understand that honest work is God's way of earning a living. 
 I am told many office workers and employees, particularly 
teachers, have been seen day trading, either outside their 
work places or at their desks, when they should have been 
working trying to legitimize their salaries.  I call this 
stealing, pure and simple, and employers have every right to 
demand refunds.  As for those who have invested through banks 
and businesses that offer interest, I say their loss is 
double because they have lost the world and they have also 
lost the Hereafter."  He then insisted that the market 
decline was responsible for numerous suicides and attempted 
suicides, and an unbelievable number of divorces, fights, and 
un-Islamic behavior.  He considered it a blessing in 
disguise. "There may be short cuts to becoming wealthy, but 
the only sure way to keeping what you own and living a happy, 
settled and healthy life is through work." 
 
FROM MECCA:  IMAM DENOUNCES CORRUPTION AND ITS SOURCE, THE 
MEDIA 
 
6.  (U) During his March 17 sermon from the Holy Mosque in 
Mecca, renowned preacher Shaykh Dr. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, 
denounced corruption in its many forms, saying that Islamic 
shari'ah seeks construction and not destruction and warned 
against corruption, which leads to ruination.  The greatest 
form of corruption, the imam announced, is disbelief in God. 
Another serious form of corruption, in the imam's view, is 
the "poisonous intellectual and cultural moral invasion, 
which has brought trends of deviation and corrupted many 
people, especially young men and women.  It has polluted 
their minds, distorted their beliefs, deprived them of their 
social values, diverted them from their religious and moral 
principles, and subjected them to storms that lead to 
confusion, decadence, and defeatism."  The sources of this 
subversion are "the media that pump waves of corruption and 
forms of deviation through their shameless channels and 
networks."  They corrupt societies and families through the 
vice and immoralities they spread, he charged. 
 
THE ENVIRONMENT IS BEING CORRUPTED 
 
7.  (U) Also earning the imam's censure were "those 
corruptors who polluted the purity of the environment and the 
beauty of nature by spreading chemical substances, carrying 
out devastating nuclear tests, and releasing poisonous 
gaseous waste as well as the arms race in weapons of mass 
destruction." 
 
FINANCIAL CORRUPTION ALSO THREATENS FAITHFUL 
 
8.  (U) Another serious form of corruption, the imam said, is 
the "spreading of what has befallen the nation's economy 
through forbidden transactions and usury.  The materialistic 
race between the followers of world stock exchange markets 
and the crises suffered by these markets are only warnings." 
He concluded this section stating, "were it not for God's 
mercy and the king's great gesture (note:  referring to 
government efforts to stop the market decline.  End note.) a 
disaster would have occurred.  But many people now look 
forward to the Islamization of these money markets to make 
their dealings conform to the shari'ah rules." 
 
IMAM ALSO CONDEMNS LAWLESSNESS AND IRAQ 
 
9.  (C) He then decried the "corruption that has rent hearts 
... caused by misled renegade factions ... awakening the 
sleeping sedition, spilling forbidden blood, and indulging in 
crime."  He also noted "There is also the corruption suffered 
by our brothers in the Land of the Two Rivers (Iraq) through 
the various kinds of tragedy, persecution, siege, 
displacement, and killing, among the disasters caused by this 
form of corruption were the attacks on mosques and the 
terrorization of worshippers in them." 
 
WOMEN CORRUPTED IN ORDER TO CORRUPT ISLAM 
 
 
JEDDAH 00000232  003 OF 003 
 
 
10.  (C) In his second sermon of the day, the imam continued 
on the theme of corruption, but amended his inventory of 
corrupt practices to show that the "biggest corruption is the 
bemoaning of women's rights," adding "it is an exposed lie 
and an old deception. Our dire enemies want to turn the 
Muslim woman against her Islamic religion, values, and ideals 
and rebel against her Muslim dress, chastity, and shyness." 
 
11.  (C) After this litany of corruption and acrimony, the 
imam ended th sermon with a prayer to God to support Islam 
an Muslims, humble non-believers and unbelievers, proect 
religin, and make this and other Muslim coutries safe and 
secure. 
 
FROM MEDINA: IMAM ENDOSES STOCK EXCHANGE... 
 
12.  (U) From the Holy Mosque in Medina on March 17, Shaykh 
Salah Budayr delivered a sermon favorable to the stock 
exchange, recognizing that "the desire to develop capital and 
exchange commodities for something better is the motive 
behind the commercial transactions and the economic dealings, 
as well as the incentive for the exchange and disposal of 
capital and the assumption of the risks of its development 
and investment." 
 
...WITHIN LIMITS, MANY LIMITS 
 
13.  (U) But he qualified this endorsement by saying:  "We 
must consider the shari'ah rules on the profit coming from 
trading and investment so that it will be permissible profit 
and correct investment."  The shari'ah requires that: 
"trading must not be in the sale of forbidden things and 
their means, such as shameless space channels, magazines that 
contain pictures of naked women and call for sin, instruments 
of entertainment, CD's and blue 
movies, and alcohol, cigarettes, and so on."  Additionally, 
the "profit must not stem from usury or deceptions, which 
seem to be correct sale outwardly, but are usury inwardly." 
Nor can the profit derive from "unfair dealings, such as 
giving wrong descriptions of goods to tempt people to 
conclude the deal, or hiding any faults in them, which is a 
form of betrayal, deception, and cheating."  Less clearly he 
also asserted: "profit must not stem from risk-taking, which 
means risking one's funds for the sake of funds, which may or 
may not materialize."  The profit must not arise from 
"monopolizing and hoarding commodities so as to raise their 
prices and thus exploit people."  In a final, and most timely 
admonition, in the wake of the wild oscillations in the 
Kingdom's stock market, he cried:  "Oh, Muslims, whoever 
enters into any market dealing or plots to cause harm to 
investors by exploiting their ignorance and lack of 
experience, tampering with the funds of or plundering the 
poor and cheating them is doomed to punishment." 
Gfoeller