From CDHR
April 8, 2008
Why not Spend on Poverty Stricken Saudis?
By Ali Alyami
After praising his family for its service to Islam and its rejection of all non-Islamic governing values, including non-sectarian constitution and rule of law, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naïf announced that his government had donated one billion dollars to the Organization Of Islamic States, OIC, to help poor Muslims. The poor Muslims, who receive funds from Saudi royals, are the most vulnerable to Wahhabi indoctrination and brainwashing. Ironically, Saudi Arabia has many pockets of downtrodden citizens who have no electricity or running water and live in infested shacks. CDHR does not oppose helping poor people, Muslims or not, but it questions the motivation of the Saudi royals for spending money abroad while there are many Saudis who live under the UN poverty line designation. One way to eliminate the root causes of young Saudis’ frustration and desperation is to improve their standards of living, as well as their schooling and overall social, political, economic and religious environment. Spending billions abroad on goods that benefit no one at home, and stashing more money than they know how to handle in royals’ bank accounts, are wastes of public wealth.