2010-03-28 Balkan: Saudit rahoittavat Balkanin islamistejä

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Saudi-Arabia sijoittaa satojamiljoonia Balkanin islamistiryhmiin. Makedonian viranomaisten mukaan islamistit pyrkivät horjuttamaan Balkania. Saudien rahoittamat wahhabitit ja salafitit ottavat yhteen maltillisten muslimien kanssa.
Näissä yhteisöissä miehiltä vaaditaan pitkää partaa ja naisilta naamahuiveja, nämä ovat tapoja jotka ovat aikaisemmin ollet tuntemattomia Balkanin muslimeille.

Makedonian viranomaiset tutkivatkin parhaillaan useita saudi-arabialaisia hyväntekeväisyysjärjestöjä epäiltynä rahanpesusta ja vinahlietsonnasta.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7078771.ece

Saudis fund Balkan Muslims spreading hate of the West
SAUDI ARABIA is pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into Islamist groups in the Balkans, some of which spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan.

According to officials in Macedonia, Islamic fundamentalism threatens to destabilise the Balkans. Strict Wahhabi and Salafi factions funded by Saudi organisations are clashing with traditionally moderate local Muslim communities.

Fundamentalists have financed the construction of scores of mosques and community centres as well as handing some followers up to £225 a month. They are expected not only to grow beards but also to persuade their wives to wear the niqab, or face veil, a custom virtually unknown in the liberal Islamic tradition of the Balkans.

Government sources in traditionally secular Macedonia (official title the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), said they were monitoring up to 50 Al-Qaeda volunteers recruited to fight in Afghanistan.

Classified documents seen by The Sunday Times reveal that Macedonian officials are also investigating a number of Islamic charities, some in Saudi Arabia, which are active throughout the Balkans and are suspected of spreading extremism and laundering money for terrorist organisations.
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