Memo to Credulous Infidels: Beware of Wahhabi Snake Oil

It's thick and cloying as can be, and consists of lavish spending on interfaith flim-flammery and other bamboozling-the-infidel hucksterism. Here's The Corner's Nina Shea 'splaining how it works:

Even before the “Arab spring” revolts — indeed, ever since the 9/11 attacks on American soil by mostly Saudi terrorists — the Saudi royal family has assiduously waged a public-relations campaign to improve its image by sponsoring major cultural initiatives in the West. In 2012 alone, these included the opening of the King Abdullah interfaith-dialogue center in Vienna, an Islamic-art wing at the Louvre in Paris, and “Roads of Arabia,” an archaeological exhibition now on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian Institution. 

All these are sophisticated and lavish attempts to throw sand in our eyes. At home, meanwhile, the Wahhabi-partnered monarchy has yet to shed its grossly intolerant ideology and policies toward other religions, which it so dangerously has spread to Muslim communities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and other countries.

A good rule to live by: do look a Saudi gift horse in the mouth ('cuz you're bound to see the wily Wahhabis lurking inside the wooden behemoth).