The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Cal Thomas: Saudi Arabia’s Duplicity
• Ann Coulter: Rome Burns — Nero Worries About Pyrophobia
• Larry Elder: Great Moments in Fake News ‘Journalism’

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Opinion in Brief

Cal Thomas: “Trusting Saudi Arabia to combat terrorists and extremists and ‘drive them out,’ as President Trump called on the kingdom and other Arab and Muslim nations to do in his Riyadh speech, is akin to forging an alliance with the Ku Klux Klan to combat racism and anti-Semitism. Saudi Arabia has for years promoted the very evil they now ‘commit’ to fighting through a newly established Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology. Never forget that 15 of the 9-11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia. President Trump’s speech was written by Westerners, delivered by a westerner and based on a faulty western premise, namely, that radical Muslims can be persuaded to abandon their goal of establishing a worldwide caliphate. It is a central theological principle of Wahhabism, an austere form of Islam based on a literal interpretation of the Koran, which Saudi Arabia has for years promoted in children’s textbooks, in mosques and through its media. No reporter asked the central question that should have been put to Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir during his press availability with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: Since Saudi Arabia’s domestic and foreign policy is based on a theological worldview, have those views changed and if so, how did that ‘revelation’ come to you?”