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ing innocent Muslims who
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corporate tax Fanatically puritanical did
ticular interpretation of the
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Joby Warrick, in his
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News Editor
SALEM (AP) — Millions
of dollars have been raised
by the two groups campaign-
ing on opposite sides of a
November ballot measure
that would increase corporate
taxes.
Measure 97 would cre-
ate a 2.5 percent tax on sales
exceeding $25 million for
some corporations. Last week
Gov. Kate Brown endorsed
the measure, which would be
the largest tax hike on corpo-
rations in Oregon history.
The Statesman Journal
reports Our Oregon, the
group supporting the tax, has
raised $1.5 million so far.
The money is from just two
donations of $750,000 each
by the Oregon Education
Association and SEIU Local
503, the state’s largest public
sector unions.
The business-backed
Defeat the Tax on Oregon
Sales is campaigning against
Measure 97, and has raised
more than $5 million from
nearly 800 donations. Most
contributions are from corpo-
rations or their executives.
The campaigns are likely
to spend heavily on television,
radio and digital advertising.
Supporters of the mea-
sure say it would re-ignite
investment in public schools,
healthcare and senior ser-
vices, all while allowing the
state to tackle its other finan-
cial problems. Opponents say
it would hurt businesses and
curb private sector growth.
ate are nothing new.
As the Great War of
1914-1918 was breaking the
Ottoman Empire for good
and reshaping the map of
the Middle East, a deadly
swarm of fanatics rose in
the interior of Arabia. Semi-
barbarous tribesmen, they
called themselves Ikhwan
(Brothers). They were the
Wahhabi militia of the Saudi
chieftain Ibn Saud. Wahhabi
Islam is named for the 18th-
century scholar and preacher
Mohammed Ibn Abd al-Wah-
hab. Wahhab insisted upon a
literal and “pure” application
of the Quran, and the reli-
gious movement he sparked
in the Arabian peninsula
was puritanical, ascetic,
anti-modern and extremely
violent.
Ibn Saud united disparate
bandit tribesmen — including
the Ikhwan — and used them
to consolidate his power,
dominating the Arabian inte-
rior and creating the modern
state of Saudi Arabia.
In many respects, the
Ikhwan can be regarded as
a century-old foreshadow-
ing of ISIS — not least in
the fact that they were throat-
slitting bandits who had little
The Rise of ISIS,” (avail-
able through the Deschutes
Public Library) describes
how the Ikhwan assailed
the newly created Emirate
of Transjordan in the early
1920s, after having estab-
lished Ibn Saud as the ruler
of Arabia:
“Bloodthirsty fanatics
who regarded all Western
inventions and practices
as works of the devil, they
saw themselves as divinely
appointed to purify the region
by slaughtering all who allied
with foreigners or deviated
from their narrow vision of
Islam.”
Sound familiar?
“From the harsh waste-
lands of the interior, they
thundered into the newly
formed countries of Jordan
and Iraq in the early 1920s
with the intention of top-
pling governments and creat-
ing a unified Islamic theoc-
racy, or caliphate, spanning
all of the Middle East. They
hacked and slashed their way
through entire villages that
stood in their path, slitting
the throats of every male sur-
vivor, to ensure that all traces
of Western modernity were
wiped out.”
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the Ikhwan on the move in the Arabian desert. the Wahhabi militia
invaded the new emirate of transjordan in the 1920s, before being
mowed down by British warplanes.
The invasion of Jordan by but he valued his power and
1,500 Ikhwan ended when preeminence more than he
British warplanes caught valued purity, and he ruth-
them on the desert outside lessly crushed the Ikhwan
Amman and strafed them Revolt of 1928-30 with
relentlessly, killing all but machine guns.
100 who fled back into the
The spirit of Ikhwan did
Arabian peninsula.
not die, however. A group
The Ikhwan soon became of radicals who violently
a problem in Arabia itself. seized the Grand Mosque in
When Ibn Saud formed a Mecca in 1979 called them-
nation-state called Saudi selves Ikhwan, and their
Arabia, he won recogni- murderous, throat-slitting
tion from Great Britain and progeny — now calling
sought to establish state- themselves the Islamic Sate
to-state relations with other — continue to fly the black
powers.
flag over the desert where
This — being infidel once savage bandits rode
business — infuriated the in raids raging against the
Ikhwan, who rose in revolt. birth of the modern Middle
Ibn Saud was no moderate, East.
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