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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15Tapes of Wrath
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Muslim extremists are widening their following in Saudi
- Arabia. Despite the kingdom's jailing of the 20 leading Saudi
- fundamentalists, tape recordings of their sermons seem to be
- everywhere. The fundamentalists maintain that American troops
- were sent to the gulf not to fight Saddam Hussein but to prepare
- for war between Christianity and Islam. The Saudi preachers also
- contend that Protestants from the West have been exploiting
- tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors to this end. They
- cite actions by American Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy
- Carter as well as televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell
- and Pat Robertson as "proof." Their advice to their followers:
- seek converts, especially in America; send Korans and money to
- Palestinian Muslims and urge them to procreate; and commission
- the best weapons that money can buy -- from Japan.
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