If you were reading LGF last Friday, you should already be aware of the recent bombshell report from Freedom House, on the appalling prevalence of Saudi Arabian hate ideology in American mosques and Islamic centers; here’s our post (we were one of the first to cover the story, which has still not graced the pages of any major media source): Saudi Hate Ideology Fills US Mosques.

Today the New York Sun has an editorial on the Freedom House report and its implications for the war against radical Islam: Hate Grows in Brooklyn.

In his inaugural address, President Bush told Americans that “We have seen our vulnerability - and we have seen its deepest source,” which he identified as “ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder.” If this is true - and we think it is - then Saudi Arabia must be counted among America’s chief enemies. No other country or organization is as responsible as the Saudi government for publishing and promoting hate-filled, violent propaganda abroad. The Saudis’ brand of fundamentalist Islam, Wahhabism, is perhaps the greatest obstacle to promoting democracy in the Muslim world. As the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Senator Kyl, has concluded, “A growing body of accepted evidence and expert research demonstrates that the Wahhabi ideology that dominates, finances and animates many groups here in the United States, indeed is antithetical to the values of tolerance, individualism and freedom as we conceive these things.”

On Friday, Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom released an important new report that adds to this research. The report, “Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques,” compiles the results of a year-long study of documents published or distributed by the government of Saudi Arabia and available at mosques throughout America. “We have ascertained that as of December 2004, Saudi-connected resources and publications on extremist ideology remain common reading and educational material in some of America’s main mosques,” explain the researchers, who compiled documents from more than a dozen American mosques - including a prominent one in New York, Brooklyn’s Al-Farouq Mosque. The mosques maintain libraries or racks of literature for parishioners, and often run religious schools for Muslims.

The doctrine they teach is one of unending conflict. “It is basic Islam to believe that everyone who does not embrace Islam is an unbeliever and must be called an unbeliever, and that they are enemies to Allah, his Prophet, and the believers,” reads one document published by the Saudi government and available to worshippers at a San Diego mosque. “That is why the one who does not call the Jews and the Christians unbelievers is himself an unbeliever.”

Where are the New York Times and the Washington Post on this vitally important story? Here’s their chance to make real, substantive criticisms of Bush’s foreign policy—which must obviously do more to combat the evil influence of the Saudis—yet so far, mainstream media have ignored the Freedom House report even more thoroughly than they ignored the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

The complete report in all its horrifying detail is available here. (In PDF form.)