Guess Who’s Coming to Campus

Emotionally, I care little for the idea of Saudi Neanderthals coming to America by the thousands, of whom some undoubtedly will be terrorists committed to destroying America. It does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling to hear that the Saudi government is hand-picking the students because 1) the Saudis are the biggest liars on the face of the Earth; and 2) the Saudis have institutionalized hatred of America in their government; 3) the Saudis are the authors of the Sep 11 attacks and still blame it on the Jews; 4) the Saudi embassy, here in Washington, DC, only a couple miles from where Saudi Wahhabi scum hit the Pentagon, distributes tourist guides to Muslims reminding them they have a religious duty to hate America; 5) the Saudis run a Muslim high school here which teaches its students to hate and make war on non-Muslims and has produced two terrorists (that we know of); 6) the Saudis fund, recruit, and send jihadis to Iraq to kill Americans and Iraqis; and 7) the Wahhabi state religion of the Saudis is a cancer on humankind that must be extirpated.

Nevertheless, I support this scholarship program with gritted teeth as the best thing in the long term. Our civilization is superior to the medieval culture of the backward Saudis. The more immersion they have with America, the sooner their contemptible culture will implode. Sending Saudis back to their hellish society bearing the germ of American democracy and individual rights is the absolutely worst thing we can do to destroy Wahhabi society in the long term.

Now I don’t pretend to think this will Americanize the Saudis anymore than it would Americanize camels put on scholarship in American universities. The Saudi students will learn to crudely ape American ways while here but revert to barbarians when they return home. The experience will radicalize many of them when they realize how inferior their country and they are to America and Americans. Their solution will be to retreat further into their evil religion.

The worst of the Wahhabis will never accept a scholarship to America. They would shun such a secular education like they would shun a scholarship to a yeshiva to become a rabbi. Saudis who come to America to study are conceding that America has something to teach them. Saudis are a hypocritical culture who say one thing and do the opposite. While Saudis may criticize America while students here, the fact that they have come here rebuts their criticism.

Many, if not most, of these Saudis will flunk out, returning home as failures. It’s good that Saudis go home realizing that they can’t cut it competing with Americans. They will invent absurd stories to shift the blame for their failure to the infidels. However, when they get the chance, they will send their kids back to America for their education.

The most important thing that will happen when Saudis come to America and walk around free is that it provides them the opportunity to test the incessant propaganda at home against the reality in America. They’ve been taught that America is at war with Islam. After they’ve kicked around America they’ll realize that we don’t give a flip about Islam. There are hundreds of things they were taught were true at home that they will discover to be lies here. That is a profoundly explosive thing to learn. They will return home wondering if anything they are told is true.

It is also very useful for Saudis to get a taste for the good things in life denied them back home like movies, concerts, night life, and free speech. That stokes a hunger for such things back in Saudi Arabia. Such a hunger upsets the status quo.

It’s true that our military has accepted many Saudis for training but it’s also true that very few of them have returned home trained. From what I hear from eyewitnesses, the Saudis barely show up, learn little, and leave with a gentleman’s C. If they are particularly well connected, the school might even make them a distinguished graduate. The Saudi officer corps has no interest in doing their jobs nor any competence to do so.

That’s why after billions of Saudi petrodollars spent on the best American weapons and training for their military, the Saudis had to call us to defend them when Saddam invaded Kuwait. America has no interest in making the Saudi military effective. It’s good to relieve the Saudis of their surplus billions for training they neglect and weapons they have no clue how to use.

The two-faced Saudis realize that their way of life is inferior to the Western way of life, that they must change to be competitive, no matter how much venom they spew to the contrary. Every Saudi student who graduates from an American university is a cultural nail in the Wahhabi coffin. Bring them on.

Tantor on February 24, 2007 at 6:18 PM