Perhaps you were taught in school that Saudi Arabia’s chief export is oil. And for those who do serious on-the-books accounting of such things, that remains correct. But the Saudis have another export they don’t talk about much. Actually, there’s a shocking in-the-books accounting, says the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.



That product would be what we’ll call tutorial terrorism — public school instruction on all that’s evil with the West and textbooks that spew the same kind of invective.

Nina Shea, the director of Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom, said that Saudi textbooks — smuggled out of the Arab nation and supposedly cleaned up post-Sept. 11, 2001, in an effort to stunt the fact that 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorist hijackers were Saudis — still are calling for jihad against Christians, Jews and other “infidels.”



That’s 5 million students in 25,000 Saudi schools still being instructed that Americans are The Great Satan. More students are being indoctrinated at such schools in 19 world capitals, including one near Washington, D.C.



‘Saudi Arabia is trying to assert itself as the world’s authoritative voice of Islam — a sort of ‘Vatican’ for Islam,” Ms. Shea notes.



And, in the process, becoming an ideological training ground for the next wave of terrorists, and the next, and the one after that, whose sole purpose is our demise. It cannot be discounted that the real motive of the Saudi Arabian authorities is to keep the extremist elements away from their country as they may pose a grave threat to the monarchy.