Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network : America and the West’s Fatal Embrace

Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by renowned experts, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore this vast influence. Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, ranging from lobbying to endowments to think tanks and policy centers, universities and workshops for teachers in kindergarten through twelfth grade, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by long-time experts in the fields of national security, foreign policy, education, and law, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore the Saudis' vast grip. It addresses how Saudi influence has eased the rise of domestic terrorism as well as a promulgation of pernicious ideas regarding American foreign policy. All this has produced a philosophy of moral equivalency, mitigating against a sense of American exceptionalism or a moral clarity of America's unique mission in the world Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Cutting Free from the Oil Noose....Pages 1-9 The Scandal of U.S. Saudi Relations....Pages 11-25 Who Is Behind the Muslim Mainstream Organizations?....Pages 27-40 Sharia-Compliant Finance....Pages 41-53 The Stealth Saudi Jihad into the American Mind....Pages 55-63 The Stealth Curriculum....Pages 65-80 The Saudi Penetration into American NGOs....Pages 81-104 The Saudis on J Street....Pages 105-113 All Politics Is Local....Pages 115-122 Their Oil Is Thicker Than Our Blood....Pages 123-151 The Impact of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Europe....Pages 153-170 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Defamation of Religions, and Islamaphobia....Pages 171-185 The “Green Corridor,” Myth or Reality?....Pages 187-210 Canada—Islamism’s Happy Hunting Ground....Pages 211-233 The Way Forward....Pages 235-248 Epilogue....Pages 249-252 Back Matter....Pages 253-269