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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a
great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have con-
secrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,
that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth.
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ISBN 0451524934 "Big Brother is Watching You" "1984": "Novel published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book's hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell's warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book's title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses." -- Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, April 1, 1995 ISBN 0877790426
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A book without hope or a challenge to Reason? -- MartinNoutch
[Some comments, from a religious perspective, moved to NineteenEightyFourReligiousPerspective.]
I heard that George Orwell considered some variations of 1984. All money should be marked so that anything could be traced back and men should be made to carry devices so that their position would be known any time. It seemed so unrealistic that he dropped these ideas (did he? It's such along time since I read his book!). Now they call these "credit card" and "mobile phone" (some countries in Europe: "Handy"). Just a thought. -- HelmutLeitner
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any proof I never thought much about it one way or the other until now that I obsess about Hitler and Nazism being much worse than Big Brother as God (a Puratanical Victorian) and then It was clear that Orwell or more precisely the author was flexible Title: Nineteen eighty-four Author: George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) the book was to serve its purpose that of obscuring into tidy myth and satisfying emotionalism the true horror of WW2.
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Subject: THE NEW TIMES HOLLER!
Reviews the "ORIBE" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:29:06 -0500
From: Amir Bey <abey@mindspring.com>
To: abey@mindspring.com
THE NEW TIMES HOLLER!
CULTURE DESK
Omissions at the Met
Special by Amir Bey,Copyright 2003
Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, an exhibition of Japanese screens, ceramics,
scrolls, on-site installations that include a fountain by Isamu Noguchi, and other fine artifacts from the
Momoyama period (1573-1615) is being held at New York's Metropolitan Museum. Oribe is derived from the
warlord Furuta Oribe, 1543/44-1615, whose influence guided an innovative period of brilliant ceramic works that
explored the beauty of irregularity, concepts that are now identified with his name. Indeed, the Momoyama
period ended with Oribe's seppuku (forced suicide), for suspected treason against the shogun. The information
given about the ceramic pieces, installations, and accessories used in tea ceremonies, as well as the paintings
that reached an important stage during the Momoyama period is enlightening. This writer especially enjoyed
seeing the two scrolls illustrating stories from The Tale of Genji. The many fine folding screens from that period
include some from the following Edo period (1615-1868), as well as several screens from the last century that
directly incorporated elements such as kimonos from the Momoyama period.
Hmm...those screens. I noticed many black men are depicted. After examining the notes unavoidable
questions arose. What was more noticeable than their presence in the screens was their omission by the
curator, Miyeko Murase, in the notes that accompanied each screen. There were four screens that feature
people of African descent: "Departure of the Nanbans" (Nanbanjin, or "southern barbarians", a name bestowed
on Europeans), by Kano Naizen 1570-1616; and two double-screens titled "Arrival of the Nanbans", from the
Edo period; and "Scenes In and Around the Capital" (Rakuchu-rakugaizu), attributed to Kano Takanobu. The
Africans are engaged in servile activities such as waving fans, holding and riding horses, rowing and pulling
boats ashore, carrying bundles -and people. One scene portrayed several blacks in a house appearing to count
money, with an abacus nearby. There was no attempt by the exhibition to hide the Africans' presence; the
catalogue offered the same textual invisibility, yet their presence is more conspicuous due to enlarged details
from the screens that focused on them. Is it possible that what black people do, even the most mundane
activities, are to be seen but not put into a constructive context? This is the case in "Scenes In and Around
the Capital". The notes say, "Some Nanbans (Europeans) attract the attention of women and children nearby."
Dear reader, the image consists of a black man holding a fan over a white man's head. Certainly they weren't
both Europeans!
Interestingly, the notes twice point out that the Nanban women included in the screens were fictional, since
European women did not travel on those early voyages to Japan. Why comment on the presence of people who
did not exist, yet avoid any description of those who did visit Japan, and who, judging from their numerous
depictions in the screens, made vivid impressions on the Japanese artists? The Nanban women were fancifully
rendered in the fashion that Japanese artists painted Chinese women then, which was indicative of their idea of
"foreign" women. In contrast, the black men were realistically shown in ways consistent with how blacks would
have traveled and interacted with Portuguese traders and missionaries at that time.
These omissions caused me to speculate about the blacks. Were they: Moors from the Spanish peninsula;
Africans from present-day Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique or Angola, which were former Portuguese colonies;
or West Africans taken in as slaves directly from the coast or from the Americas, possibly Brazil? With the
means at her disposal, the curator was capable of making more than an educated guess as to their origins and
functions, and could have recited anecdotes about their reception in Japan.
Since the curator was out of town at this writing, The Holler! was unable to pose these questions to her.
It can be argued that 16th and 17th century Japanese considered both blacks and whites Nanbanjin.
Nevertheless, throwing some light on the Africans accompanying the Portuguese would have broadened the
perspective of an absorbing exhibition.
Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan can be viewed through January 11, 2004.
The attached image is a detail from "Arrival of the Nanbans", Edo Period (1615-1868), from the Mary and
Jackson Burke Foundation.
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Subject: Fwd: THE NEW TIMES HOLLER! Metropolitan Museum
update Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:19:38 -0500
From: Amir Bey <abey@mindspring.com> To: abey@mindspring.com
THE NEW TIMES HOLLER!
Culture Desk Special for the NEW TIMES HOLLER!
By Amir Bey Dec 1, 2003
Miyeko Murase, the curator of the Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan exhibition responded to the HOLLER!'s review of the exhibit by calling
the writer. Her explanations for the omission of any information concerning the people of
apparent African descent depicted in the four folding screens of the Nanbanjin voyages
(Nanbanjin - Southern barbarians, which alludes to foreigners who were permitted to land
and trade in the southern portion of Japan) was that 1: There wasn't enough space in the
notes or the catalogue and every detail of the screens could not be commented on; and
2: It was common knowledge that dark - skinned people accompanied the Portuguese,
so their presence in the screens was not unusual, and why was the writer surprised?
She suggested that those people may not have been Africans but of Indian descent,
since the Portuguese also had colonies in that region. She also posed the question of how should those people be depicted, as Africans, dark-skinned people, or Indians?
She informed the writer that she had recently attended a seminar in Portugal that did not
mention the identities of people other than Portuguese went on those voyages.
The writer responded to those points by saying 1: Even one sentence alluding to the
presence of the darker-hued people would have been better than none, especially since
other details were included; and 2: Those kinds of omissions were not surprising but
typical of many institutions. THE HOLLER!'s position is that whether African or Indian,
the variety of activities and the quantity of depictions of those people warranted some
kind of mention. Even though they were not mentioned in the seminar Dr. Murase
attended, if researched, the Portuguese kept thorough records of the voyages in
question and some information on the cargo and the people on those ships exists and
is accessible. Dr. Murase asked the writer how would he describe those voyagers?
Since the writer does not think they were Indians, judging by the manner in which their
features were portrayed, he suggested Africans, or any allusion to their existence by
describing the activities they were engaged in, and certainly not as Europeans, which
is how they were described in one of the notes. The curator pointed out that the
Japanese of those times viewed the Europeans and the Africans as Nanbanjin.
Nevertheless, THE HOLLER! feels that the artists who painted the screens made
visual distinctions between the them and did not omit those Africans (or Indians),
and thus they should not be omitted in the notes. In addition, while the screens are from an era far removed from present-day sensibilities and realities, the
curator and the Metropolitan Museum is not.
THE HOLLER! appreciated the efforts of the curator to reach us by phone
and for engaging in a constructive dialogue.
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The October 10, 1987 Orlando Sentinel carried an Associated Press story on
page A-3 which began, "TACOMA, Wash - A boy was penned in a coffin-sized box
for two years because his step-grandmother feared he was brain-damaged, and
when he emerged he was amazed to learn that not all children are shut up in
the same way, prosecutors said Friday."
The kid spent two years in a box. Did he scream to get out? No. Did he feel
abused? Apparently not. Was he unhappy? The news item gives no hint that he
was. He illustrates, literally, the difficulty of "thinking outside the
box."
The main problem, of course, wasn't the box. It wasn't even locked. The main
problem was in the boy's head. He stayed in the box because he was convinced
that his situation was right and proper.
We're all bundles of little boxes of unexamined beliefs about what's right
and proper.
Lots of those boxes have to do with schooling.
BOX: There's such a thing as a "standard" 6-year-old, 9-year-old,
12-year-old. Once this idea is accepted, putting all kids of the same age
into slots called "First Grade," "Second Grade" and so on seems to make good
sense. And, once that idea is accepted, grade promotion and retention seem
to make good sense.
BOX: Kids won't learn the multiplication tables (or anything else) unless
they're threatened with low grades or promised good ones. Few believe that
the satisfaction that comes from doing quality work is a more powerful and
lasting motivator than rewards and punishments, threats and promises.
BOX: Everything of importance can be measured. Once this proposition is
accepted, that which can't be measured--things like curiosity,
determination, complex thinking, enthusiasm, intellectual flexibility,
creativity, teamwork, a life-long love of learning-stop being important.
BOX: Monster schools are an efficient, or at least fiscally necessary,
thing. (However, on this one, there's a bit of hope for out-of-the-box
thinkers. Americans respect money and admire those who make it. Bill Gates
has a lot of money. That he's spending many millions of it in states willing
to experiment with high schools enrolling no more than 400 students just
might prod a few school boards to join him outside that particular box.)
That's barely the beginning of a list of the mental boxes that keep
America's schools stuck in unexamined ruts. School building location and
design, textbooks, staffing, lines of authority, funding, schedules, student
roles, the curriculum, sports, extra-curricular activities, community
involvement-these, for most people, are neatly boxed arrangements and the
lids are closed.
There are endless opportunities for fresh thinking in education, but rarely
is it welcome. Much of the resistance stems from educator worries about
negative public reaction. I used to joke with school principals with whom I
worked about their timidity, their fear of the telephone call from a parent
or (far worse) from a newspaper reporter. Many would have loved to adopt
innovations they knew were solidly researched and would benefit students,
but they went to their retirement dinners maintaining the status quo.
There is, for example, a mountain of research about the long-range
counter-productivity of assigning letter grades. In Punished By Rewards--The
Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes,
Alfie Kohn's research reference citations run to 31 pages of fine print. But
a principal who pointed to that research and advocated ending the
traditional A through F grading system would face a school board meeting
packed with outraged citizens.
And face it alone. No delegation of citizens would commend her or him for
going where the research leads. No newspaper editorial board would suggest
to readers that the use of extrinsic motivators might explain why so few
students leave school with a genuine love of learning. No panel of business
leaders would make the rounds of civic clubs pointing out that the principal
was attempting to bring modern business management principles to bear to
motivate students more effectively.
I used to believe that it took smarts to think outside the box. I've come to
believe that it isn't primarily a matter of intellect but of emotion. The
protesters at that school board meeting will very likely be smarter and
better educated than the average citizen. But their demand that the
principal be disciplined or fired won't be a product of their having used
their heads to thoroughly examine the evidence and study the research. It'll
come from their emotional attachment to the intellectual box they're in.
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The Voting-Machine Industrial Complex
Demonstration Democracy
Copyright 2003 By BOB FITRAKIS
During the Cold War, the CIA, in the words of long-time agent Ralph McGehee, practiced the art of "deadly deceits." Throughout the Third World, the secret spy agency engaged in covert operations, blatant acts of economic destabilization and wanton acts of mass violence.
In the 1970s, Idaho Senator Frank Church's investigatory committee established that the CIA also engaged in so-called "benign" operations including rigging elections. The agency used the term "demonstration elections"--elections that are superficially democratic but the results manipulated by the CIA.
The Company did everything from stuffing ballot boxes, creating political parties, merging smaller political parties into large coalitions as in Uno in Nicaragua, paying death squads to intimidate voters and the occasional use of computer fraud. In the mid-80s, the Reagan and Bush administration used a computer to help their "man in Panama" and CIA asset Manuel Noriega gain electoral support; they backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos when he brought in the pre-programmed election tapes in the middle of an election to turn his sure defeat into a fixed victory. The people of the Philippines didn't accept the computer results as credible, but Reagan and Bush argued it was necessary to preserve our "traditional" relationship with the brutal dictator. Remember, his political opponent, Senator Aquino was shot to death after disembarking from an airplane to run against Marcos.http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/nov/20/opi_editorial-1.htm
Now that we have the son of the former CIA director as President, we should recognize that the more reprehensible tactics of the CIA have been brought home
with the Bush dynasty.
What George Bush's energy friends from Texas, including Enron, did to the California economy through the massive "mega-watt" laundering of energy should be viewed as just another economic destabilization of an enemy regime.
In the Houston area, two Republican U.S. representatives were declared winners in the last election until it was discovered that the results were caused by a "faulty" and Republican-friendly microchip. When the proper chip was installed in the computerized voting machine the correct results were revealed: two Democratic victories.
The 2000 Florida election included all of the signs of a Third World CIA demonstration election.
Bizarrely constructed butterfly ballots, obscure third parties receiving unexplained and unfathomable votes and heavily Jewish areas voting unexpectedly for right-wing nationalistic anti-Semitic candidates like Pat Buchanan.
Remember that the exit polls predicted that Gore would win. Only when the psych-ops operation at Fox News changed that call did some people begin to believe in the myth of the Bush victory.
What began as covert operations in the Third World are now overt practices by the Bush administration in the United States.
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Take for example the August 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, Chief Executive of Diebold, Inc., pledging that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its votes to the President next year." Diebold is one of three finalists currently seeking $100 million contract with the state of Ohio to provide computerized voting machines for the 2004 elections. Diebold has worked on its computers with Battelle, a well-established collaborator with the U.S. military and CIA.
Computer scientists from John Hopkins indicated that it would be relatively easy to hack into and manipulate the computer voting results in these machines.
The Seattle Times ran a feature story on Diebold in their August 21 edition. Bev Harris, a Seattle-area public relations company owner, recently uncovered "some 4000 files that included user manuals, source code and an executable files for voting machines made by Diebold, a corporation based in North Canton, Ohio."
Jason Leopold recently wrote a revealing article on this issue that you can read here. A detailed anaylsis of the flaws in Diebold's electronic voting machines can be found at www.scoop.co.nz.
 So, what do we have here other than the obvious denial by mainstream America?
We've got a CIA family, their corporate supporters working with CIA contractors at Battelle in order to bring flawed electronic voting to the U.S. with no paper trails and questionable exit polls. Recall that Battelle was also the contractor for Voter News Service (VNS) and failed to produce exit polls for the 2002 Congressional election.
Factor in the reality that, out of 435 Congressional districts in the U.S., only 39, or 9%, are actually competitive (when major party candidates won with less than 55% of the vote). Under our political system, also, the vast majority of Congressional seats are gerrymandered as "safe" or noncompetitive districts by the party that controls the state government. Eleven Texas Democrats are hiding out in New Mexico in hopes of thwarting another round of Republican district-rigging in their state. So little democracy is actually left.
Over the years, well-known and respected political theorists and leaders have warned of the rise of authoritarianism.
In the 50s, U.S. President Eisenhower warned of the "military-industrial complex." C. Wright Mills detailed the "power elite"--the convergence of the
top levels of the military, corporations and governmental leaders during the
Cold War.
In the 60s, Herbert Marcuse, who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in WWII, pointed out that Americans' inability to think critically was making us a "one-dimensional" society with an authoritarian culture.
In the 70s, political scientists like William Domhoff and Thomas Dye began to document empirically the undemocratic and elitist nature of the U.S. political system.
In the 80s, Bertrand Gross warned of the rise of "friendly fascism."
In the 90s, William Grieder documented that the U.S. had the best democracy money can buy and asked the question, "Who will tell the people?"
But the most damning and lasting testimony that foretold the rise of America's new authoritarian demonstration democracy are still the massive volumes produced by the Church Committee. Back in the late 70s, the Agency's shadowy hands were all over the Idaho ABC Committee (Anybody but Church).
Results of the 1973 Church Committee Hearings, on CIA misdeeds, and
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 Bush's election coup of 2000, our first obvious CIA-style demonstration election,
gave the Bush clan and their friends in the CIA the opportunity to field test whether or not you can blatantly steal an election in the U.S. just like Panama
or the Philippines.
The 9-11 attacks provided Bush, Jr. with the authority to push U.S. society massively to the right and pursue militarism and imperialism.
It also allowed Bush to test market neo-Nazi-style mass propaganda to the American public.
The voting machines are simply the final nail in the people's coffin.
The comatose electorate rests silently as the hammer of authoritarianism falls.
Bob Fitrakis is a professor at Columbus State Community College and an editor of the Free Press.
Weekend Edition Features for Sept. 1 / 7, 2003
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Saudi Arabia and Militants: The Risky Road of Negotiations November 17, 2003 1521 GMTStratfor.com
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Summary
A top Saudi scholar recently hinted that a delegation of scholars would meet with de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Abdullah to discuss their role as mediators in possible negotiations between the Saudi government and al Qaeda. The fact that Riyadh has considered negotiations with al Qaeda speaks volumes about the difficulties it faces with growing Islamist militancy in the kingdom -- and also highlights the complex configuration of relationships between the regime, the ulema and the militants.
Analysis
Safar al-Hawali, a leading Wahhabi scholar in Saudi Arabia, recently hinted that
Crown Prince Abdullah was planning to meet with a group of 40 scholars in Mecca to discuss their role as mediators in dialogue with al Qaeda militants. Although the official Saudi Press agency quoted an unnamed official denying that Riyadh sought such dialogue, the Saudi-owned al-Hayat daily reported that the meetings were to be held Nov. 14-17 -- close on the heels of a Nov. 9 car bombing in Riyadh that killed 17 people and wounded 122 others, including Arabs.
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If al-Hawali's statement is accurate, it underscores the magnitude of the problems facing the Saudi monarchy: Militancy in the kingdom has grown
to such a level that the government realizes it cannot resort to a harsh crackdown without further eroding its own public support. Negotiations with
al Qaeda are an alternative in the quest to defang the militant group, but a risky one that likely will backfire against the House of Saud in several significant ways.
First and foremost, the offer of dialogue would only embolden al Qaeda,
which stands to gain little from negotiations. Because the objective of the militant Islamist group is to oust the House of Saud from power, it is not interested
in seeking a negotiated settlement. In al Qaeda's eyes, any offer of dialogue from Riyadh would appear -- with good reason -- to be a sign of weakness.
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Riyadh's readiness to negotiate with the militants in fact is a sign that the
monarchy is beginning to buckle under the pressure mounted by the militant opposition. It also would serve as a green light to the moderate opposition, which might view this as an opportune time to press forward with peaceful demonstrations -- such as those that took place in Riyadh and elsewhere in October.
As the situation currently stands, al Qaeda and the monarchy are locked into
a binary orbit: The militant group is not in a position to oust the royal family, but the House of Saud realizes it cannot contain al Qaeda through the use
of force alone. More essentially, Riyadh at this stage is seeking to prevent
the militants from making inroads into its security apparatus and in halting further attacks -- which would explain why it is willing to have the ulema*
serve as intermediaries; the government knows the religious establishment
has some pull with the jihadists.
Although the offer of a mediating role may signal that Riyadh is trying to win back the support of the ulema class -- with whom it has been at odds over U.S. demands to reform the radical religious curriculum within the state's educational system -- this maneuver too could backfire. Whatever its reasons for getting the ulema involved in negotiations, the House of Saud in doing so will bring the religious authorities back as a reinvigorated political force, further weakening its own domestic position.
From a foreign policy standpoint, entering into negotiations with al Qaeda through the ulema also will create problems in Washington for the Saudi regime. The United States would not take a favorable view of attempts to placate the militants; it already is suspicious of support for jihadist ideology within both the Saudi government and society and would view any negotiated settlement as a further strengthening al Qaeda. The militant Islamist movement understands that Riyadh is stuck between either appeasing Washington -- at the expense of domestic support -- and shoring up its domestic credibility, angering Washington as a consequence. In fact, this is exactly what al Qaeda has been trying to achieve -- a break between the two capitals. So, while it has no direct interest in talks with the regime, it stands to gain from them by making the government look bad in Washington.
Both King Fahd and his brother, Interior Minister Prince Nayef, vowed a tough
response to al Qaeda following the Nov. 9 car bombing: Fahd warned that the militants would bedealt with by an "iron fist" and that "retaliation will be stiff." Nayef, reacting to the offer of mediation from the ulema, said, "We can talk to them [militants] only with the gun and the sword."
However, the government's room for maneuver is limited.
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Al Qaeda and the regime are rivals in a contest to portray themselves as the true upholders of the kingdom's puritanical Wahhabi ideology, which has been a pillar of the monarchy since the founding of the state. The government has been known to prefer pragmatism over ideology whenever the need arose in order to maintain power, and al Qaeda has yet to acquire the power necessary to bring its ideological objectives to fruition. Thus, both sides are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of the ulema, who influence the masses.
The common thread binding all three is Wahhabism. Saudi security sources tell Stratfor that whenever a new tape from Osama bin Laden is broadcast on satellite television, the streets empty as people rush home to listen. While it is difficult to quantify the level of support for al Qaeda in the kingdom, this does suggest that that sympathy for the jihadists runs deep within Saudi society. Stratfor also has learned through a variety of other sources within the kingdom that though a significant number of ulema may publicly express support for the regime, they privately agree with the bin Laden and al Qaeda concerning the nature of the regime. They disagree, however, in their respective approaches to dealing with the government.
Cognizant of this dilemma, the regime is proceeding with caution: The more
it cracks down on al Qaeda, the more the masses see it as doing the bidding of the United States. At the moment, it appears that the pendulum of Islamic legitimacy in the kingdom is swaying toward the militants. The monarchy, therefore, has tried to religiously upstage the jihadists, pointing out that the most recent bombing was an attack against Muslims; that al Qaeda has shown no regard for the sacred month of Ramadan and that it also engages in the process of booby-trapping copies of the Koran. These efforts to destroy al Qaeda's religious credibility among the Saudi public do not seem to be working, so the regime has agreed to the path of dialogue -- and apparently
is including the ulema in that effort in order to exploit to its own advantage the debate within the religious class over how best to bring about an Islamic reformation.
But again, the maneuver is risky: It is quite possible that the ulema interested
in acting as go-betweens are trying to leverage their influence in both the government and the militant camps in order to advance their own concerns. The leader of this group of ulema, Safar al-Hawali, until recently was himself
an outspoken critic of the regime -- a stance that earned him a prison sentence from 1994 to 1999. He was released on the condition that he would tone
down his rhetoric against the regime. Since then, he has gone fro being a
critic of the regime to becoming a mediator with the militants -- a role he also played earlier this year, when he secured the surrender of militant Ali Abdul Rahman Saeed al-Faqaasi al-Ghamdi, who was wanted in connection with the May 12 triple bombings in Riyadh.
According to the BBC, at least one participant in the current mediation efforts
claimed that the militants were willing to negotiate on two conditions: immediate reform of the judicial system and cessation of the government's operations against them.
Considering al Qaeda's goal of the ousting the Saudi monarchy, these do
not appear to be the demands of the militants. Al Qaeda's agenda does not include a negotiated settlement. Thus, these demands are more likely those
of the ulema like Safar al-Hawali, who has adopted an approach of gradual reform to solving the kingdom's political problems.
In any case, the mere fact that the ulema class has influence with both the House of Saud and al Qaeda highlights the complex relationship between
the three groups, which explains the monarchy's predicament. The House
of Saud wants to leverage its influence among the ulema to salvage its Islamic
credentials and delegitimize the militants. Conversely, al Qaeda is trying to
pry away the ulema class from the regime by emphasizing the monarchy's Islamic illegitimacy. This bidirectional pull is bound to catapult the ulema into
a position from whence they can advance their own corporate
interests.
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* Ulema are the community of legal scholars of Islam and the Sharia.
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