re: #641 Cato the Elder

Thank you for a serious answer.

And thank you for the serious question.

2. How much more can they ramp it up? I suspect that the disputed mosque in lower Manhattan is a Wahhabi project. Why else would the imam have made the payment in cash money?

I think you’re wrong. Feisal Abdul Rauf was the imam of a Sufi mosque, Masjid al-Farah, which is another mosque not too far from Ground Zero (in TriBeCa). Philosophically & practically speaking, Sufis are about as far as you can get from the Wahhabis.

There are Sufis in every corner of the world, including Saudi Arabia (though they have to keep a low profile there), so even if there was money coming from there, it wouldn’t necessarily be Wahhabi money.

3. Where do you see anti-US rhetoric lacking in the Arab world? How could more of the same hurt US?

I mean state sponsored & approved rhetoric from nations that are currently our “friends”. If pressured economically & socially to crank it up or risk losing it all, I could see them becoming “born again” Muslims.

Finally, Tancredo is an asshole. The only button I see his finger on is the one on his trousers.

Yeah, he’s an asshole of the first order. *gag*

Have you seen any credible threats to Mecca lately?

No, and I doubt I will. At least I hope not. I guess my main point, which I didn’t really state clearly, was that if tempers started flaring and rhetoric flying on all sides, things could spiral out of control and horrible mistakes could be made. All it would take is one to trigger a world war.

Standing up to the Saudis might be worth the pudding proof.

Maybe. It’s hard to know for sure without being privy to whatever classified info the POTUS has.