Arab News, the face Saudi Arabia chooses to show to the West, says: Stop The Attack Against Islam, in a wall-of-text rant that has to be read to be believed.

Feelings of injustice and frustrations are driving more Muslims into the arms of extremist groups. The distorted facts that Israel and the US media are selling to the American public portraying the Muslim as the enemy and the Arab as a threat is the reason behind the conflict between the US and the Arab/Muslim World. The practice of anti-Islam in the US needs to be addressed. The Muslim is not plotting to kill the infidel. The Arabs and Muslims are not all secretly plotting to take over the world in order to establish an Islamic caliphate. This rhetoric is emanating from suspicious individuals who are outlawed in their own countries but are given safe haven in the West. They don’t represent the over one billion Muslims of the world and are not tolerated in any Arab or Muslim country. And Muslims should not be blamed for this absurd and ridiculous rhetoric. The policy of discriminating against Muslims and Arabs must stop. According to the Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), there exists a negative US stance toward Muslims and Arabs on the educational level following the Sept. 11 events. American education curricula depict Muslims as butchers, terrorists, rapists and oppressors of women, and believers in holy war (jihad). The curricula portray Arabs as camel riders and sand slaves. The Arab man is depicted as an oil sheikh who is wealthy, extravagant and wants to buy the USA with his money. All this only augments the deep anti-Arab bias that has existed in Hollywood movies and Western media for decades. We strongly denounce this distortion of the image of Islam and Muslims. This harmful stereotyping of 1.25 billion Muslims of the world and of Arabs in general will only escalate tensions and will add fuel to the fire. To put an end to the state of terror we need tolerance and goodwill. People of different faiths and cultures need to coexist and respect each other’s beliefs and lifestyle.