No further support for regimes that help to spread terror and war!

"If the Munich Security Conference continues to support the regimes of Saudi Arabia, China and Turkey – rather than focusing on human rights and minority rights – war and terror will continue instead of being reduced," criticizes the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in view of the problematic approach of the Security Conference that started in Munich today. 

Russia provided Syria with weapons – and now Assad is using them against the own population. The activities of radical Islamist Terrorists in Mali are mainly funded by Saudi Arabia. These coherences must be recognized as the main causes of current conflicts. A change of policy is needed. The Security Conference should not allow any arms deals with countries that are wrongly seen as guarantors of stability.

"The conference has brought together several representatives of states that trample on human rights and civil rights – such as Egypt, China, Turkey and Russia – so there should be more initiative than merely waving through some EU- and NATO-strategies and arranging deals with the company representatives of the Allianz, Shell, Telecom or the Deutsche Bank. Criticism must be expressed. A state should only be able to become a NATO-partner, if it respects human rights in its own country and if it is not involved in arms deals or in financing Islamist extremists," the STP wrote to host of the conference, Wolfgang Ischinger.

It is especially the Saudi Arabian Wahhabists – the state religion in Saudi Arabia – who are fueling violence and war in several parts of the world. Islamic fundamentalists are able to travel to conflict zones in Africa and Asia to radicalize moderate Muslims and preach terror. Thus, the Wahhabists are considerably responsible for the radicalization of the Arab population in northern Mali – to the chagrin of the Tuareg.

"Saudi Arabia provides money and weapons for the Salafists – the most radical among the radical forces in Syria. They are trained and educated in Turkey and then smuggled into Syria," says the STP's expert on questions regarding the Middle East, Dr. Kamal Sido, on Friday. "They are a serious threat for non-Muslims and the non-Arab minorities."