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Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

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Finally! A book that gets past the superficial headlines and quick-fix current events, to explain what really got us in this mess. Hatred's Kingdom uncovers the truth emanating from 300 years of Middle East history, and then chillingly explains where it's all headed. In the process, I got an inside look at an entirely new dimension of the Middle East conflict: the ideological front, where the battle is over civilization and society, not policy. I'm convinced that anyone who reads this detailed story of the Wahhabi-Saudi alliance, backed up by flawless documentation and exhaustive research, will demand that we in the West act immediately to prevent the next legion of Bin Ladens from rising anew. Dr. Gold devastatingly exposes the Saudi role in building the network of terror, which stretches to Saddam Husein's Iraq, that not only brought down the World Trade Centers but stands poised to wreak more destruction. Through this literary adventure, I came to see the Middle East and the world stage in an entirely new light. For my money, there is simply no better currents events book on the market. Get it, and read it immediately.

I am embarrassed to realize the extent of my own ignorance regarding the Wahabi menace. As a lover of history and one who could draw a fairly accurate survey of the events that shaped the West during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, I was grievously unaware of the monstrous theology and murderous campaign of Ibn `Abd Al-Wahhab. One wonders how the terrors of the crusades could compare to the genocidal murder of "impure" Muslims by the fanatical armies of Wahab. One wonders still why the West fails to see the ever-present and growing threat posed by the Wahhabi poison which spans out from Saudi Arabia (our allies?) to infect Muslims around the world. This book is required reading for every American who feels the need to make some progress toward understanding why some Muslims cultivate hatred above all other "virtues." Want to know why supposedly godly people feel compelled to murder innocent women, children, and men? Want to understand why they have no difficulty murdering their own kinsmen and fellow Muslims? It's the poisonous Muslim heresy of Wahhabism. Where does it come from and how is it funded and propagated across the globe? Saudi Arabia is Hatred's Kingdom as Dore Gold has dubbed it. This book is a good starting place and a dreadful portent of things to come as long as Saudi Arabia is not held accountable. The Saudi mission to spread Wahhabism has been incredibly "successful" in Indonesia, Chechnya, Bosnia, America, and of course, Palestine where their PLO has become the center of a maelstrom of Islamic hatred. One stat that might be instructive for all those who think the extremists are a small minority is that 79% of Palestinian children state that they want to be suicide bombers when they grow up. It would seem the "extremists" are the few who want peace. If you think this is all an academic discussion for Americans consider that 70% of the Mosques in America teach the Wahhabi doctrine. Get this book and learn what those "friendly" neighborhood mosque-goers really think about you.

I just finished "Hatred's Kingdom" by Dr. Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador and a scholar on Islam and, especially, Saudi Arabia. His book documents the connection between Saudi Arabia and terrorism, including the side-by-side translations (Arabic/English) of memos and official documents calling for terrorism against America, Israel, Jews and Christians. Included in the book is the written proof of Saudi financial contributions to terrorists and actual sermons of the top mullahs calling for jihad. This is a chilling book. Saudi Arabia is not a friend and ally of the U.S., as this book proves. Of course, many of us have known this for a long time (duh), but seeing the collected evidence drives it home hard.

Whatever "usefulness" the Saudi's may be in the war against Saddam Hussein, it is superficial at best. Dr. Gold's book proves that the heart of Islamic terrorism beats in Saudi Arabia. I recommend this book to anyone who cares about freedom of religion and freedom from armed zealotry.

It is interesting in reading reviews of this book, that the very people who call Israel racist apartheid, boastingly admit that Jews cannot get a visa into Saudi Arabia precisely because they are Jews! Whew! And that's not racist?

It's about time people pick up on who is truly racist and apartheid in the Middle East. Israel has an Arab population with Arab representation in the Knesset, while Arab nations are practically "Judenrein": (free of Jews). Nevermind that Medina, one of Saudi Arabia's holiest sites was named Medina (which means nation in Hebrew) and was founded by Jews who were deliberately murdered and fortunate if they were just forced to leave, to run for their lives leaving everything behind.

According to Arab propaganda, the fact that Dore Gold cannot get a visa into Israel because he is a Jew is of no consequence! Does this not clearly demonstrate that Saudi Arabia is precisely "Hatred's Kingdom?" How then did Zionism (the aspirations for the Jews to have a homeland in which all religions are respected and practiced freely, and where Arabs even hold political office) end up being labeled apartheid and racist?

Has the whole world gone crazy? Why isn't this fact being brought up in the media? Why isn't the U.N. condemning Saudi Arabia for discriminating against Jews and Christians?

The aforementioned reviewer as much as admitted that the title of this book is an accurate description. Enough with the turnspeak!

I want to thank the reviewer for substantiating Arab hatred and racism to the readers' attention by gloating that Dore Gold cannot know anything about Saudi Arabia because he "cannot even get a visa into Saudi Arabia because he is a Jew!"

In my book, that is the epitome of racism and apartheid. The world needs to read this book and demand an end to Saudi Arabia's apartheid and racism, directed at Jews, Christians or any other faith except their accepted version of Islam.

Dore Gold has figured out the source of the new terrorism. It comes from Saudi Arabia. This book is a sweeping history that begins in the 18th century and moves right up to the present tense. It is extremely well-written. Everything is explained here: Saudi Wahhabism, Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the PLO, Israel, Osama bin Laden, as well as al-Qaeda. Thus although this is a book about Saudi Arabia, the reader picks up enormous background about the whole Middle East. I read this book just as America came under an Orange Alert and finally I understand who is standing behind the continuing threat. I agree with the former head of the CIA, James Woolsey, who wrote on the cover of Hatred's Kingdom, if you have to read one book that explains the hatred against America in the Middle East, it is this book. I hope the highest levels of the US government read this book.

A thorough analysis. To really understand what to most of us is incomprehensible, Dore Gold explains the historical, political and most importantly, the religious roots of this vile phenomenon. The fact that a supposed friend of America, Saudi Arabia, is supportive of this menace is unquestionable. What do we do with this information? No question about it, Dore Gold's book is a must read.

Contrary to some of the criticism leveled toward this book, I found this author to be very balanced and fair toward Islam. For example, Gold identifies the aspect of Wahabi theology that justifies jihad toward non-Wahabi Muslims, such as Shi'ites and Sufis. By labeling the latter as 'polytheists', extremist Wahabi groups have justified violence toward these groups as well as desecration of sacred Islamic sites. Gold documents both historic and modern examples of this, such as the intrusion of Wahabi jihadists into the Balkans.

I found it valuable to learn the symbiotic relationship between the Saudi Royal Family and the Wahabi clergy and how the royal family gives the latter power and influence in order to maintain favor. Also, how oil money has funded the export of radical Wahabi ideology and the terrorist activities conducted by the latter. And paradoxically, because of Western dependence on oil, the money came from the very countries the Wahabi ideology holds in contempt!

Sometimes the book is dense and hard to follow but I think every member of government who has a role in international affairs should read it.

Sadly, in reading this and other studies, it becomes apparent that Western democracies ended up supporting many terrorist regimes in their attempt to fight the Cold War. Supporting the 'bad guys' just because they are against one's current enemies is a dangerous and risky strategy indeed and makes us look like hypocrites. Jimmy Carter referred to Khomeini as a 'holy man'. We supported Sadaam Hussein. Look where it got us!

Hatred's Kingdom, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Saudi government is both the financial and ideolgical engine of radical Islam. I learned a great deal from this book -- especially from the primary source documents in the back of the book. Saudi Arabia is no ally of the United States - it is part of the problem not the solution to the evils of terrorism that destroyed the innocents in the World Trade Center. What a great and informative read.

A brave and important book that should be read by the president, his cabinet and everyone in Congress. This is the real skinny on the danger that Saudi Arabia presents to the West and should be taken to heart by our policy makers to ensure our nation's future safety.

If you want to read just one book, to understand the cause and origins of terrorism, this is the book.

After 9/11, like everyone else, I asked "Why do they hate us?" The President said "Islam is Peace", and we were told that this was not true Islam, yet muslims danced in the streets all over the world as they watched the Trade Center destroyed.

I set out to find out why, and have read numerous books, about all aspects of Islam, Middle Eastern and Arab history, as well as the Koran. I learned that much of what I had been told was not true, that the news media are incredibly superficial and befuddled (surprise?), and that many apologies for Islam are phony. After all this, I still knew that I did not understand.

When I read Hatred's Kingdom, I expected a Jewish/Israeli slant, and definitely did not find it. What I did find was a well-written, extensively referenced, well-organized analysis, full of structured historical info, and finally, an explanation which puts all the pieces together. The Saudis are definitely not our friends - they cooperate with us when it is convenient to have us do something for them (like defend their country, or buy their oil). Their rulers are totally beholden to a fanatical form of Islam, called Wahhabism, which preaches war and death, even to other forms of Islam. It teaches implacable hatred and violence toward all non-muslims, and they have actively spread this hatred throughout other muslim countries. It was behind the Taliban, it invaded Bosnia, and it disrupts Chechnya. Nearly every Islamic terrorist, regardless of where he grew up, follows the teachings of this sect, and so it all comes together.

Generations of Saudis have been taught this vicious doctrine since childhood, including most of the 9/11 hijackers. Osama bin Laden grew up on it in Saudi schools. What's scary is that millions of other Saudis have been taught the same doctrines.

Hatred's kingdom, it is indeed.