Saudi journalist and TV news anchor Nadine Al-Budair recently shook up the airwaves by blasting Muslim "hypocrites" who refuse to admit that terror is rooted in extremist Islam.
Budair made the extraordinary remarks during a TV commentary on Saudi Arabia's Rotana Khalijiyah TV 3. Following the "abominable" Brussels bombings, she said "it's time for us to feel shame and to stop acting as if the terrorists are a rarity," the Middle East Media Research Institute reports.
"We all know that the number of the homeless in Europe is very high. They sleep in the streets and beg for alms, and some of them are alcoholics or drug addicts, but we do not expect these addicts or criminals to even consider coming here and blowing up a mosque or a street in our city. It is we who blow ourselves up. It is we who blow up others," she pointed out, according to WND.
The TV host insisted that the "perpetrators" have emerged from "our environment" and that they belonged to "our society."
She said many of her fellow Saudis are aware that someone close to them, a neighbor, a relative, a nephew, a grandson, a father, or a mother had gone to Syria to wage jihad.
The journalist highlighted her country's education system which enforces memorisation of hard-line Salafist texts, as well as schools and universities that teaches their students that non-Muslims are infidels, WND reports.
Saudi Arabia stands on strict Quranic literalism. This takes a seventh-century view of unbelievers, women and minorities that allows for terror, murder and deprivation of human rights, Religion News reports.
The same report disclosed the lamentations of some Muslims on major U.S. Muslim groups that say religion is not responsible for the growing Islamist terror or that violence has roots in Islam, and the Islamist political terror is nurtured in Saudi Arabia's strict Wahhabi branch of Sunni Islam.
