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Originally published in French by Albin Michel Publishers in October 2003, Princes of Darkness is a highly critical account of Saudi Arabia and, more specifically, its royal family, the Al-Sauds, and its deceitful approach to international affairs and the governance of its own people. The author demonstrates that the regime practices a multi-faceted apartheid toward inferior races and species: foreigners, Shiites, Christians, Jews, and women. It is a country that you can find yourself in jail for an ill-timed ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Torture is widely practiced: whipping, stoning, amputation, decapitation. There are fifty thousand mosques—one for every hundred male adults—and fifty thousand imams who direct prayers, schoolbooks, the press, radio and television, all official organizations controlled down to the slightest detail by the regime. The preacher’s sermons are full of hatred, incitation to loathe the West, calls for murder. All this in the name of Islam. The religion they profess, Wahhabism, is a strange mix of paganism, provincial narrow-mindedness and rhetoric borrowed from Islam. And oil finances the family’s ambitions. The Al-Sauds have used the enormous power and wealth that came from oil to buy consciences, political parties, celebrities, mercenaries, and countries—including the United States. Murawiec proves that the "reward" to the United States, who’s loyalties and blind faith have been purchased by the royal family, is not just oil but terrorism. Americans can no longer ignore the countless links between the Saudi elite and international terror—that so many analysts and observers had established before and after September 11th—should have been perceived, revealed, attacked, and unraveled by all available means. Princes of Darkness answers the critical questions: What has to be done about Saudi Arabia? Should we take the ‘Saudi’ out of Arabia? And if so, how? And how do we hold America’s political elite accountable for its decades-old alliance with these terrorizing princes of darkness.
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