{"id":183220,"date":"2015-01-23T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/23\/scholars-in-pakistan-say-what-ive-been-saying-for-years\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T23:30:00","slug":"scholars-in-pakistan-say-what-ive-been-saying-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/23\/scholars-in-pakistan-say-what-ive-been-saying-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars in Pakistan Say What I&#8217;ve Been Saying for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the prevalence of terrorism in the Muslim world is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1158244\/federal-minister-accuses-saudi-govt-of-destabilising-muslim-world\">largely funded by the House of Saud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Pirzada has accused the Saudi government of creating instability across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, through distribution of money for promoting its ideology.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Addressing a two-day &#8216;Ideas Conclave&#8217; organised by the &#8220;Jinnah Institute&#8221; think tank in Islamabad, the federal minister said &#8216;the time has come to stop the influx of Saudi money into Pakistan&#8217;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if only someone like a US Senator were to issue a similar condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>It is patently clear that the font from which international Jihad springs is the pocketbook of the House of Saud.<\/p>\n<p>They fund the schools where Jihadis are created, the social welfare organizations which they fund are Islamist, and they make a concerted effort to export their home grown nut-jobs to other Arab and Muslim nations, where they are some else&#8217;s problem.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2015\/01\/20\/rehmans-jinnah-institute-causes-stir-as-pakistani-federal-minister-calls-out-saudi-destabilization\/\">Emptywheel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the prevalence of terrorism in the Muslim world is largely funded by the House of Saud: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Pirzada has accused the Saudi government of creating instability across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, through distribution of money for promoting its ideology.Addressing a two-day &#8216;Ideas Conclave&#8217; organised by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1031,1021,1151,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-house-of-saud","category-religion","category-south-asia","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}