This blog is looking for wisdom, to have and to share. It is also looking for other rare character traits like good humor, courage, and honor. It is not an easy road, because all of us fall short. But God is love, forgiveness and grace. Those who believe in Him and repent of their sins have the promise of His Holy Spirit to guide us and show us the Way.
Washingon D.C. is not the only place that has coup attempts. Saudia Arabia's Prince Muhammed has taken extreme precaution in rounding up dozens of people for questioning, including relatives of the prince. Wall Street Journal reporters Summer Said and Jared Malsin have been reporting the story, and their latest is here.
Mark Steyn educates us today about Ibn Saud, the man who set himself up as the King of Saudia Arabia in 1932. Mark takes notice of the "greasy" former ambassadors to Saudia Arabia from the United States and Britain, who told us after 9-11-2001, "The Saudis are our friends," even as the Saudis funded Madrasas all over the world in which their young people were taught to hate us. The principal export of Saudia Arabia is not oil, but ideology. The oil merely funds the ideology.
On March 11, 2002 there was a fire in a girls school in Mecca. The girls fled the flames, but the Mecca police made them go back into the burning building, because they did not have on their head covers.
Ibn Saud had 16 wives who bore him 100 children, 45 of whom were sons. Lots of princes running around in Saudia Arabia! The King died in 1953, and his six successors have all been his sons.
Saudia Arabia is sending $3 billion to Lebanon to bolster the government's military. Iran funds Hezbollah, presently the most viable military group in Lebanon. Hezbollah is Shiite Muslim, Saudi Arabia is Sunni Muslim.
