مملكة الكراهية: كيف دعمت العربية السعودية الإرهاب العالمي الجديد

by Dore Gold, محمد جليد (ترجمه)

يوضّح المؤلف بالوثائق الرسمية والتواريخ والأرقام والإحصائيات الإسهام العميق والكبير الذي تسهم به المملكة العربية السعودية بتغذية الفكر الديني المتطرف وتنمية النزعات التكفيرية للفكر الوهابي علانية وجهارا تارة وسريا تارة أخرى. ويرصد المأزق السياسي للإدارات الأميركية المتعاقبة والازدواجية العلنية والسرية للتعامل الأميركي مع المملكة العربية السعودية على كافة الأصعدة السياسية والاقتصادية والعسكرية. فالإدارات الأميركية جمهورية كانت أم ديمقراطية تتعامل مع المملكة بطريقة ازدواجية مثيرة للغرابة ومتناقضة مع القيم الديمقراطية التي تتبعها الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية كعقيدة ثابتة تفرضها على جميع الدول التابعة تحت هيمنتها، وهي علاقة تشبه وتتقارب كثيرا من موقف أمريكيا من دولة إسرائيل.

وبينما أخذت المملكة العربية رسميا تدين التطرف الديني والفكر التكفيري التدميري الذي عمل بالدول والناس الأبرياء فتكا وتقتيلا، وزعزع الاستقرار العالمي منذ أحداث 11 أيلول 2001 حتى اليوم، يرصد المؤلف الكثير من الجمعيات “الخيرية” التي يديرها أمراء ونافذون في المملكة “والمدارس” التي تحترف تغذية الكراهية للمواطنين السعوديين وغيرهم بدروس الحقد وتحليل دم ليس لمن لا يدين بالدين الإسلامي فحسب وإنما تتعدى ذلك ليشمل الجميع ممن لا يدينون بالفكر الوهابي ذاته.

Genres: Politics, Middle East, History, Nonfiction, Islam, Terrorism, Religion

440 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Isidor "Dore" Gold was an American-Israeli political scientist and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 1997 to 1999. He was the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was also an advisor to the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in office. In May 2015, Netanyahu named him Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until October 2016.

Reviews

[ايمان · Rating 1 out of 5]

كان من الممكن أن نصدق كل ما قلت يا دور غولد متى أنتقدت أيضا دولتك التي تترأس الإرهاب العالمي..و شعبك المكروه من كل التاريخ..

[عمر الحمادي · Rating 2 out of 5]

على قدر إعجابي بتفاصيل الفتاوى الإسلامية الواردة في الكتاب على قدر رفضي لربط كل ما جاء في الإرهاب بالسعودية الشقيقة خصوصا العنوان المستفز للكتاب ، فعندما يعانق الملك عبدالله عزت الدوري فإن ذلك في نظر المؤلف يجعل المملكة مسؤولة عن قصف حلبجة بالكيماوي ... وعندما يصافح الملك الراحل حسن نصر الله فإن ذلك يجعله حاضنا للعمليات "الإرهابية" ضد إسرائيل !

لا ينقص الكتاب الأدلة لكن ينقصه تحليل هذه الأدلة بالشكل الصحيح ... فصدور عمل ارهابي من مواطن سعودي لا يجعل من حكومك بلده حكومة إرهابية لاسيما وأنها كانت أول من تأذى من حركات الجهاد العالمية وأول من شرعت في اقتلاع النبتات السيئة التي ظهرت في حديقة منزلهم الداخلية

[Ayman · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب للأكاديمي الأمريكي دور غولد يقع في 440 صفحة، مُدعم بالعديد من الوثائق والأدلة، يتناول عبر فصوله الأحد عشر، تاريخ الوهابية، وتكون الدولة السعودية الأولى والثانية والثالثة، وتاريخ تورط الوهابية والمملكة العربية السعودية في دعم وتمويل الإرهاب، والقيام بأعمال إرهابية.
الدافع الذي كان وراء كتابة المؤلف لهذا الكتاب هو أحداث الحادي عشر من سبتمبر عام 2001، التي كان أغلبية مفذيها يحملون الجنسية السعودية.
المؤلف يتنبأ في مقدمة الكتاب الذي صدر عام 2003، بأننا إن لم نتحلى بالصراحة ونحارب أسباب الكراهية - المتمثلة في المذهب الوهابي - فإننا بعد سنوات قليلة سنواجه تنظيمات أكثر تطرفا من القاعدة، وهو ما حدث بالفعل وظهر تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام "داعش".
يُعد الكتاب بمثابة وثيقة إدانة للملكة العربية السعودية، ودورها في استغلال أموال النفط، في دعم وتمويل الإرهاب، بدلا من انفاق هذه الأموال لصالح الشعب السعودي.
يبدأ الكتاب بتناول التاريخ الوهابي منذ لحظة تشكل حلف بين محمد بن سعود ومحمد بن عبد الوهاب عام 1745م، الذي كان شعاره: "منِّا الأمراء، ومنكم العلماء"، وهو الميثاق المعمول به حتى الآن، فالسلطة في المملكة تنقسم إلى سلطة سياسية في يد آل سعود، وسلطة دينية في يد المشايخ، الذين ينحدر أصل العديد منهم من نسل محمد بن عبد الوهاب.
كما يتناول الكتاب العلاقة بين المملكة وجماعة الإخوان المسلمين، وكيف سعت المملكة لإسقاط نظام جمال عبد الناصر العلماني في مصر، وتمويلها مشروع أسلمة مصر منذ السبعينيات، إبان عهد الرئيس السادات، لتتحول مصر لتابع للمملكة بعد ذلك، وينقرض الشعب المصري المتمدن، ويحل محله شعب إسلاموي الهوى، وتنحدر مصر لمستنقع الأصولية الإسلامية والتطرف والإرهاب.

كتاب قيم جدا، وهام للمهتمين بتاريخ الحركات الإسلامية.

[Mohammed omran]

كتاب. ضعيف. مليء بالاكاذيب. من اجل هدف مريض. وبائس

[محمد · Rating 1 out of 5]

كتاب ينضح بالحقد والكراهية. وتلحظ في سياقات الأمثلة والاستشهادات أدلة كاذبة ومغالطات تاريخية. طبعا يجب أن نعرف أن المؤلف صهيوني ( ”دور غولد” ولد في هاتفورد في اميركا ونشأ في عائلة يهودية" وهذا الكتاب جزء من رسالته للدكتوراة. هناك أخطاء في الأسماء والتواريخ والأحداث أيضا. ويبدو أن بعض الأسماء الحاقدة العربية ساهمت في مادة الكتاب فهو يكرر واقعة حدثت للشيعة سنة 1802 في العراق ، يكررها وتباكى عليها أكثر من عشر مرات. ومن المضحك انه يصور مذبحة للإخوان قبل مائة وخمسين سنة بأنهم قتلوا 400 الفا من سكان الجزيرة ، فهل كان هناك احصاء يعرف عدد الناس أصلاً ؟ . يتحدث عن اسماء معينة من العلماء وكأن شخص ما اقحمهم في سياق النص. يتحدث عن احداث 11 سبتمبر واثبتت التحقيقات الامريكية اللاحقة أن 4 من المتهمين بها (ماتوا أصلا قبل الأحداث فكيف شاركوا بها . هناك لقاءات مع بعض ضباط المخابرات الامريكان المتقاعدين اخبروا ان سبتمبر كانت لعبة استخبارات اسرائلية.
كتاب تافه تنقصه المنهجية وينقصه منطق الإقناع . فالسعودية أكثر دولة عانت من الارهاب وأكثر دولة تصدت له بشجاعة بينما أكثر الدول ارهابا هي اسرائيل وامريكا . وكان المفروض أن يتحدث الكاتب عن أصول الارهاب الامريكي- الاسرائيلي حتى يصدقه العالم .
حفظ الله المملكة العربية السعودية من هؤلاء الحاقدين , فنحن دولة تبث الحب والسلام ولسنا دعاة كراهية أيها الكاتب الحاقد .
بالمناسبة الترجمة رديئة

[Ridzwan · Rating 1 out of 5]

When I discovered that this book has been written by a former ambassador in the service of Israel, the first thing that crossed my mind was its objectivity. After all, the Jewish state is known to be particularly hostile and indifferent towards the influential Muslim Kingdom.

I was not disappointed indeed. Hatred’s Kingdom proves to be nothing more than 309 pages of hogwash propaganda that aims to turn western sights onto a new enemy that they could hate.

Cover to cover, author Dore Gold tries to convince his readers as to why Saudi Arabia is the new crosshair of the United States. Though his research on the extremist movements like Wahhabis are fairly accurate, their role and influence in the Islamic world has been largely exaggerated to fit the agenda of the book. Very often, the exception is presented as the norm and the smallest events have been highlighted to be evidences of Saudi’s malaise towards Americans and ultimately the world

For example, in a bid to support his argument on how the Saudis particularly enjoyed the events of September 11th, he described a visiting entourage of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as “smirking” while touring the site of ground zero. The Prince was there to present Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a check for $10 million for the victims of the terrorist attack. Coincidentally, I happen to have just watched the entire DVD footage. The Prince and his people were clearly nowhere close to enjoying the sights of ground zero.

Dore Gold dangerously echoes sentiments of anti-Saudists like Thomas Friedman, who coincidentally is also a strong supporter of zionism. One can help but feel the extreme hate and envy these people have towards the wealth and influence of the Saudi state. Nothing captures this more clearly than Hatred’s Kingdom.

[Steven H · Rating 5 out of 5]

A SOBERING PERSPECTIVE ON THE SAUDI KINGDOM AND WAHHABISM

Dore Gold is an American-Israeli political scientist and diplomat who is the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and represented Israel to the United Nations (1997-1999). He was also an advisor to the former Israeli Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu (who named him Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

He wrote in the Introduction to this 2003 book, “Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks … a great deal of mystery remains about the precise source of the hatred that impelled nineteen Middle Eastern terrorists to take their own lives in an act of mass murder… In studying the September 11 attacks, some American investigators have looked at the possible supporting role of Saudi Arabia. After all, fifteen of the nineteen terrorists, as well as their ultimate commander, Osama bin Laden, were born and raised in Saudi Arabia. A third of the prisoners of the United States held from the war against … al-Qaeda organization were Saudi nationals, as of … 2002. The Saudi state, moreover, was one of only three countries that recognized and backed Afghanistan’s Taliban government which harbored al-Qaeda in the late 1990s… One might protest that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is supposed to be an American ally… But September 11 has forced America to reassess Saudi America’s reliability as an ally.” (Pg. 1-2)

After quoting several Muslim commentators, he summarizes, “to these Muslim commentators, Wahhabism is nothing less than the religious and ideological source of the new wave of global Islamic terrorism… Their critique… extends to Wahhabi institutions---educational networks and channels of funding, the actual mechanisms that the Saudi state erected to give it worldwide outreach… unless the influence of Saudi Wahhabism is understood, it is impossible to explain how September 11 occurred---or to prevent a future attack… Terrorism on the scale of the September attacks, does not occur in a vacuum… All terrorists must be indoctrinated---indeed, brainwashed…. Without an unshakeable conviction in the merits of martyrdom and in its rewards in the afterlife, terrorists would never have undertaken the suicidal attacks of the past decade. In short, unless the ideological roots of the hatred that led to September 11 are addressed, the war on terrorism will not be won.” (Pg. 5-6)

He explains, “According to Islamic tradition, a warrior who gives his life in a true jihad, a holy war, becomes a … martyr… and is guaranteed entry into Paradise. But beginning in the ninth century… Muslim theologians broadened the meaning of jihad… adopting more spiritual definitions… The Wahhabis, however, restored the idea of jihad as armed struggle, and they spread their new doctrine…” (Pg. 7)

He recounts, “The war against the Soviets in Afghanistan may have looked like a multinational effort, with Afghan guerrillas … armed with Western weapons, but the effort also required significant financial backing, and that came from Saudi Arabia and its Islamic charities… without the Saudi, the Afghans would have lacked the resources to turn back the Soviets.” (Pg. 97)

He explains, “Strong anti-Christian themes filled the [Saudi] textbooks of the late 1970s. One work, published in 1977, was entitled ‘The Facts that the Muslim Must Know about Christianity and Missionary Activity.’ … the author … [was] claiming that [modern Christianity] was no longer a monotheistic faith… by labeling Christians polytheists, the author removed the protection that Islam traditionally afforded to ‘people of the book.’ … What is remarkable about this official Saudi text… is how familiar it is . For in recent years Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda followers have articulated many of these same themes in interviews and religious rulings…. clearly the arguments being voiced in militant Wahhabi circles in the Saudi kingdom of the late 1970s helped to set the stage for the leap to terrorism that the world witnessed two decades later.” (Pg. 101-103)

He states, “The fall of the shah [of Iran] had [an] important effect on Saudi Arabia: in 1979, oil prices climbed again… Thus, Saudi Arabia had the wherewithal to pursue an activist policy on behalf of the international interests of Islam… the World Muslim League became one of the Saudi’s main vehicles for spreading Wahhabism… The old Wahhabi-Shiite rivalries of the nineteenth century were again in full swing… The stakes were considerable. Saudi Arabia had to keep Sunni Muslim states like Pakistan aligned on its side against Revolutionary Iran… As Saudi Arabia countered the Iranian Shiite threat, Wahhabism gained strength again within the kingdom.” (Pg. 119-121)

He continues, “All of [Saudi king] Fahd’s actions revealed that the Saudi state was indeed still under strong Wahhabi influence… Often the needs of the Saudi leadership came into conflict with the policies of the Wahhabi religious elite. But no Saudi monarch could long survive without the support of those religious leaders…. Thus, the regime that had first invited an enlarged Western military presence now rebuked America and cracked down on Westerners living in Saudi Arabia. Also… the Saudi leadership heavily invested in the religious institutions spread Wahhabi Islam worldwide… It was paradoxical that the well-traveled King Fahd, known in the past as one of the strongest voices for Saudi Arabia’s modernization and its pro-American orientation, would become the Saudi monarch who oversaw the export of Wahhabism on a global scale.” (Pg. 122-123)

He outlines, “First, the main instruments for this activism were Saudi Arabia’s large Islamic charity organizations… Second, the geopolitical interests of the Saudi state were not the only factors driving Saudi Islamic activism. In Afghanistan, the Saudis backed the groups who were IDEOLOGICALLY closest to Wahhabism and not necessarily those militias that had the best combat record against the Red Army… Third, across the globe, the Saudi charities promoted terrorism… [Two of them] assisted the extreme Palestinian group Hamas… There are two ways of interpreting Saudi charities’ global involvement in terrorism: first, that these organizations were themselves victims of determined terrorist groups who penetrated the charities and used them as a front; or, alternately, that the charities were rogue operations… because the Saudi charities have been linked to terrorist groups all around the world, it is more than likely that these Saudi-headquartered organizations made a conscious decision to back international terrorism. For Saudi Arabia, however, this worldwide financial was not about terrorism, but rather about jihad… Ultimately, the West itself would become a target of the new jihad. The addition of the United States to the list of potential adversaries was a direct by-product of the 1991 Gulf War.” (Pg. 153-155)

He reports, “The Clinton administration requested that the Saudis agree to host a U.S armored brigade… Clinton personally visited the kingdom to secure Saudi support, but the Saudis refused. Saudi policy had clearly changed… What had caused the change in Saudi policy toward the United States?... Clearly, the Saudi reluctance to accept new U.S. forces was the result of the post-Gulf War political environment in Saudi Arabia. The Wahhabi revival, and the religiously conservative clerics’ unbridled anti-Americanism, had made the Gulf War partnership more difficult to maintain. When the primary threat to Saudi Arabia was external, large-scale U.S. forces were an asset, but when Saudi Arabia faced internal threats, any new American troops became a liability.” (Pg. 168)

He says, “Al-Qaeda was establishing a formidable presence in Saudi Arabia as the campaign against American targets intensified…. Additional evidence against Saudi Arabia became apparent only in retrospect, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks… Saudi Arabia for the most part maintained plausible deniability throughout the 1990s…” (Pg. 182-184)

He recounts, “Right after the September 11 attacks, the Saudis knew that they faced a difficult public relations challenge. The Saudi government paid an American advertising company … $2.7 million to place ads in the American press depicting Saudi Arabia as a staunch U.S. ally… Initially, Saudi leaders tried to divert attention away from the involvement of Saudi citizens in the attack and blamed U.S. policy toward Israel for motivating the terror.” (Pg. 193)

He points out, “even after the horrific attacks on America, the religious environment that had incited fifteen Saudi nationals to commit mass murder remained militant; the incitement continued, and thus the threat remained… Why did the incitement continue? Did the Saudis think they had immunity from future attacks? Did the Saudi royal family not have the political leverage to control the Wahhabi clerics? Or did the royal family simply refuse to apply the necessary pressures to change the hatred[?]… In any case, the net result was the same: Saudi Arabia was still promoting anti-Western hatred---and by doing so, it helped feed the manpower pool for further attacks on America and its allies.” (Pg. 211) He continues, “After September 11, Saudi Arabia remained a womb in which radical Islamic terrorism continued to grow, the Saudi kingdom providing not only its supporting ideology but also its financial support structure.” (Pg. 212)

He summarizes, “Wahhabism per se [is not] the problem, since not every country touched by Wahhabism automatically engaged in international terrorism… Rather, the problem is Wahhabism as it has developed in the milieu of Saudi Arabia. This radical and violent departure from the mainstream Islamic tradition remains… the dominant religious creed in Saudi Arabia. And the Saudi regime has been a key leader of Wahhabism’s international terror network. Indeed, Saudi Arabia, supposedly an ally of the United States, emerges as a key to the new global terrorism, for the Saudi kingdom has provided not only the ideology that motivates terrorists but also manpower and seemingly endless supplies of money for terror operations. As radical as the Wahhabi creed it, the true danger results from Saudi state support for its ideology of hatred and Wahhabi-endorsed campaigns of terror.” (Pg. 215) He adds, “In short, Saudi Arabia’s brand of Wahhabism helped generate a unique anti-Western hatred, but the Saudi state provided the delivery system to carry that hatred worldwide.” (Pg. 220)

He concludes, “For the war on terrorism to be won, this duality cannot be allowed to continue. Saudi Arabia must be forced to make a choice… Despite Saudi Arabia’s insistence to the contrary, the record makes it frighteningly clear that the Saudi kingdom is, at this point, with the terrorists. Indeed, it is Saudi Arabia that has spawned the new global terrorism. Unless the Saudi regime feels pressure to change, the hatred that has motivated a horrifying series of worldwide terrorist attacks…. will only go on. And as long as the hatred continues, the terror will go on.” (Pg. 228)

While the book (being written by an Israeli) may be ‘slanted’ somewhat against Saudi Arabia, it will be of great interest to anyone studying the actions and policies of Saudi Arabia concerning terrorism.

[Michael Connolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dore Gold argues that Saudi Arabia harbors an aggressive form of Islam called Wahhabism, that is largely responsible for the jihadists and the terrorists. Gold gives the recent history of the Arabian peninsula. After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, different Arab factions fought over Arabia. Ibn Saud and the Wahhabi Ikhwan movement founded by Abdullah bin Abdul Latif occupied central Arabia. The Hashemites, who belonged to the same tribe as the prophet Muhammad, and occupied western Arabia, including Mecca and Medina. Ibn Saud the the Ikhwan fighters conquered the Hashemites. The Hashemites were left with only Jordan and Iraq. The Saudis had already conquered al-Hasa in eastern Arabia in 1913. Al-Hasa was mainly occupied by Shia Muslims and had most of the oil.
Because they have so much oil money, the Saudis are able to spread Wahhabism into foreign countries, such as Egypt, Chechnya and the United States. The Saudis have provided shelter to many members of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhhod persecuted by Nasser. The Saudi-funded al-Haramain Foundation supports jihadists in Chechnya. Two of the Saudi-backed organizations that spread Wahhabism worldwide are the Muslim World League and the World Assembly of Musslim Youth. The Saudis have also invested a great deal of money in Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the main authority on Sunni Islam, and its faculty have moved in a Wahhabi direction.

[Ido · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an excellent book through most of it - it explains and details how the Saudis have been major supporters of terrorism not just against the West but against other Muslims as well. Wahabbism as practiced specifically by the Saudis and how they use it to essentially brand every other religion - including Judaism (go figure!) and Christianity as "polytheistic" and therefore the adherents of those religions are not even worthy of living. Gold does an excellent job detailing how the Saudis are bigger exporters of terrorism than the Iranians in many cases - they just don't get as much publicity in this respect because, well...they're our "friends" and "allies" which is complete BS - the Saudis are actively trying to destroy Western civilization by debasing it and anything related to it and replacing it with their own version of Islam. They even do this with other Muslim sects by destroying other Islamic shrines and holy places and rebuilding them in their own image. Everyone should read this book and the Western world should strive very hard to get off the oil drug that the Saudis use to fund their campaign of terrorism. The sooner we do the better off the world will be.

[Aaron Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent look at the history of the Wahhabi branch of Islam from the beginnings until the present day. Goes into great detail about how Saudi government and extreme Wahhabi religious leaders are very closely intertwined. Saudi Arabia has been a leading exporter of extremist thought which in turn influences those it touches, particularly within their own country, who go out and join terrorist organizations to fight jihad. Our time will come when we have to make the decision whether we cut the head off the serpent or allow it to destroy us. Read this book and get the real story about what is going on.

[Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really shocked me into reality regarding the nature of the West's struggle in the Mideast. Sure, Dr. Gold has an agenda. But his data is solid. Lots and lots of primary documents provided to show that the real enemy is Saudi Arabia.
God shows how the Saudi royal gov't has purchased peace with radical Islam by funding their terror operations and radical extremist causes around the globe. Within a religion that is fundamentally at war with the Christian and Jewish religions, Wahhabism the most extreme of all.

[Freedom Breath · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب من العيار الثقيل يحوي تفاصيل تاريخية ويتطرق لوقائع سياسية مختلفة في البلاد العربية في فترات زمنية مختلفة مع حلقة الوصل وهي المملكة العربية السعودية وعلاقتها بالجماعات الاسلامية في مختلف دول العالم وضح الكتاب حقائق الجمعيات الخيرية والمبادرات التي اقيمت بهدف مسالم وغايات غير واضحة ومشبوهة اجتهد الكاتب في جمع معلومات ووثائق وتصريحات مختلفة وربط الاحداث ببعضها البعض اعيب عليه بعض الاحيان المبالغة في تكاليف الهبات العطايا المالية.

[Del · Rating 5 out of 5]

Original review mixed this book up with another. Sorry. It's actually been quite a while since I read this one.

This book is actually an interesting look into the workings of the House of Saud and how their oil riches and Wahhabi (Sunni) proselytizing contributes to the spread of the extremist jihadi doctrine. Good book.

Listened to the unabridged Audible.com audiobook version.

[Benjamin Stahl · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent summation of Saudi Arabia's role in supporting and hosting terrorists against the West, and other "infidels" such as the Shiite branch of Islam. The book is not remotely Islamophobic, but rather a condemnation of a particularly radical form of the already more radical brand of Islam that is Wahabism.

[Kevin Q · Rating 5 out of 5]

This dude fucking HATES Saudi Arabia.

So I like to corroborate his more sensational claims with other sources, but if you want that side of the narrative this guy does it. Hes also given a SHIT TON of testimony to congress on the same subject if you looking for free info.

[Abdallah · Rating 2 out of 5]

بالرغم من ان الكتاب عرض حقايق كتيير،، الا ان طريقة العرض واسلوب الكاتب بتنم عن انحياز واضح وجهل كبيير بالاسلام واحكامه

[Malaak · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you liked this book, you definitely lack either knowledge or critical thinking.. most likely both!

[Hasdrubal Barca · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am embarrassed to realize the extent of my own ignorance regarding the Wahhabi 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 Wahhab. 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.

[Amer Hawwash · Rating 3 out of 5]

لا يمكن قراءة الكتاب إلا من وجهة نظر تاريخية لتقفي أثر العلاقة بين الإيديولوجيا الوهابية وآل سعود

فالكتاب يعرض بأدق التفاصيل، طبيعة العلاقة الثنائية المشكلة بين هذين المكونين وكيف تطورت هذه العلاقة وأثرت على سياسات المملكة العربية السعودية داخليا وخارجيا
فمن وجهة النظر التاريخية، فهو كتاب مفصل، يسرد فيه الكاتب الأحداث التاريخية بإسهاب ودقة وتفصيل ويعطي القارئ موجزا دقيقا لتاريخ المملكة العربية السعودية

إلا أنه وفي ذات الوقت، عندما رجأ الأمر إلى التحليل نيابة عن السرد، برزت عدم موضوعية الكاتب، وازدواجية المعايير في أحيان أخرى.

[Kim Zinkowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Saudi Arabia revealed! But we do nothing...I wonder why?

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is an even handed history of Jewish/Arab relations in the middle east from the past Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gold is as interesting as Bernard Lewis but more frugal with words.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another complex problem proven by a simple mind to be a simple issue. How about the weapons? I hear Saudis are not remarkable weapon forgers.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a hard time following. I need a simplified primer.

[Kowther · Rating 3 out of 5]

الكاتب منحاز طبعا
لكن مهم ان تكون لك معرفة في اسلوب عدوك في تزييف الحقائق او اسقاط ما يشاء من الصورة

اتساءل ما سيحصل للكاتب و الكتاب ان تم التطبيع

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author, Dore Gold, has studied and presents in this book how Saudi Arabia seems to be playing several sides against each other. With seemingly unlimited funds, mostly from oil, it provides money to support some of the more radical elements of the Islamic community. Specifically it supports the Wahabi Muslims (aka Salafi Muslims) in their efforts to infiltrate and overthrow non-Muslim governments. It can pay for building schools but also provides textbooks that present versions of their radical views. At lease in part they seem to want to placate the radicals so their focus is outside the Kingdom to preserve Saudi control over their country. The author also states what I have read in other books that Muslims justify misleading, lying, tricking non-Muslims if it is done to further the goals of their faith, world domination through implementation of Islamic sharia law. She also states that even though so-called moderate Muslims are not planning any attacks or other radical activities, in surveys a high percentage of them voice support for those who do choose to carry out Jihad through killings and suicide bombings. She covers many aspects that you would recognize if you've read even a few books on Islam, but she also includes discussion of ideas and tactics that I haven't read any place else. Because of the various divisions within Islam (Wahhabi, Shia, Sunni, etc) it is difficult to make broad statements. Just as with Christianity (Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, Catholic, Coptic, etc), they are not one monolithic group. In fact there is a lot of infighting between some sects. Overall, I learned some new thing to consider when trying to understand what is driving Muslims from these various groups. I only question whether her focus on Wahhabi's as the radical element erroneously lets some of the other sects off the hook.

[قارئة · Rating 2 out of 5]

ستتوقف أمام هذا الكتاب كثيراً، وعلى رأسك علامات استفهام عديدة ،إذا عرفت من هو مؤلف هذا الكتاب؟لا أدري ان كان أنور عشقي يعلم بأن رئيس الوفد الصهيوني الذي استقبلة في القدس المحتلة وصافحه وجرى بينهم حوار عن مبادرة السلام العربية هو نفسه مؤلف كتاب مملكة الكراهية؟
تحدث في كتابه وبالادلة والوثائق المصورة أن بلدك ياأنور هي راعية الإرهاب العالمي الجديد؟ثم ماذا يريد هذا الصهيوني من إقامة علاقات مع بلد بهذة المواصفاتها أم إن الظالمون بعضهم أولياء بعض!مادوّن في هذا الكتاب دليل انهم متوغلون في المجتمع السعودي ويعرفون ادق تفاصيله يراقبونه بالمجهر كعدو صعب وبالأخص الوهابية التي تحاول الحكومة فك الإرتباط معها بأسرع وقت ممكن لأنها بدأت تسبب لها الإحراج ولم تعد تنفع لهذة المرحلة،وأيضاً والأخوان المسلمون لأنهم لازالوا يتمسكون بفكرة الجهاد الممقوته والمخيفه لدى الغرب.أما الحكومة فهي متخبطه في قراراتها فتارة ترفض فتح اراضيها لضرب افغانستان بحجة انها ترفض قصف المسلمين وتارةً أخرى تفتحها لغزو العراق !دعمت المجاهدين في افغانستان لأهداف سياسية وارسلتهم واستخدمت الخطاب الديني المكثف لشحذ همم الشباب وعندما انتهت الحرب انقلب عليها مجاهديها يريدون ان يطبقوا ماعلمتهم عليها.احداث كثيرة وحروب وشخوص ومواقف ذكرها المؤلف الخلاصة، يجب على الحكومة ان تستعد لقانون جاستا وهذة المرة اللعبة ستكون مع ترامب فهل هي جاهزة !

[taarak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent review with even more history to back up such writers as Robert Spencer. The truth is a scary place to explore.

From New York City to Bali, Indonesia, ideologically motivated terrorist groups have chillingly demonstrated their global reach. And terrorism is now far more lethal than before. But what is causing it? Only as new reports have emerged about Saudi Arabia's links to terror has the United States begun to look closely at the Saudi kingdom, America's purported ally. Now, in Hatred's Kingdom, Middle East expert Dore Gold provides the startling evidence of how Saudi Arabia not only is linked to terror, but in fact has spawned the current wave of global terrorism. Using previously unpublished documents, Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, exposes how the deeply ingrained hatred that has provoked the new terrorism has its roots in Saudi Arabia's dominant religious creed, a radical Islamic offshoot known as Wahhabism.

[Salma Say · Rating 2 out of 5]

دور جولد هو دبلوماسي اسرائيلي عمل في مناصب مختلفة في الحكومة الاسرائيلية ، لا عجب اذا من تحيزه الواضح و الأعمى لاسرائيل و أمريكا.
بالرغم من ذلك فإنه أورد حقائق بالدليل و لا يمكن انكارها عن كيف ساهم الفكر الوهابي في ظهور الجماعات المتطرفة و دور حكومة المملكة في الدعم بشكل مباشر أو غير مباشر.
كيف تمت اتاحة الفرصة للشيوخ على المنابر لالقاء خطب تدعو الى كره و نبذ الاخر
و كيف أن المنشورات الدينية المتشددة لاقت طريقا للانتشار بل حتى المقررات الدراسية احتوت مواد تدعو الى الكراهية_ و التي بالمناسبة تم تعديلها و حذف هذه الاجزاء بعد احداث 11 سبتمبر
كيف استخدمت المؤسسات الخيرية لدعم الجماعات المتطرفة حول العالم
..... الخ
التحفظ الوحيد لدي هو محاولة الكاتب لاستبعاد دور القضية الفلسطينية و سياسات امريكا الخارجية في تحفيز جماعات المجاهدين و القاء اللوم كله على الفكر الوهابي
تبريئ ساحة اسرائيل من الارهاب و القتل و التهجير و تبرير هذه الأفعال أيضا و هو أمر مفهوم بما ان الكاتب دبلوماسي اسرائيلي

[Rob Q.]

A very interesting read but a little like doing homework. I'm not giving up, just procrastinating.

[Joel Mirkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book. A bit repetitive. Traces origins of at least on major source of fundamentalist islam (wahabism) from it's origins to current events.