Buying Sharia: Saudi Arabia wants to invest billions in Dutch companies and projects

Kind of like the Mafia ~ I just want to do you this little favor !!

Oh him ~ it's a Saudi thing!! They do that every Valentine's Day.

It looks just a little bit suspicious! But then maybe the Saudi's are playing their cards right - they have managed to buy off - the West's most prestigious Universities - who now put out studies that say things like - 'Men who got to Mecca - treat women better'. Never mind Mecca is in Saudi Arabia where women have the least rights in the world. But then if it comes from an Ivy League University - it's like God's voice bellowing from the clouds.

For these Muslim movers and shakers [short for Islamizers of the free world], it suits them to have the debate about Islam framed around hatred for Muslims.

It produces the typical Pavlov response in the ultra-Left, who salivate at the sound of any who questions Islam. Useful attack dogs for Muslims wishing to set up a Sharia base. They keep the area clear.

But by framing the debate around Islamization and the implementation of Sharia type laws - on the hatred of Muslims - then they can offer to help - because if you hate - then there is a problem with you - so that you need help - in this case - by liking Muslims better - accepting Sharia law and the loss of some of your personal rights and freedoms - is slipped in with it.

It is a charm offensive - its the opposite of for example when Darth Vadar [Star Wars] says ~ 'So You Are Not Happy With This Arrangement?' With Islam ~ rather if you object to Sharia law being introduced in your country ~ then you hate Muslims. Next some guy on the Left ~ will send you to a program to 'understand Islam better', have you arrested, put on trial or fired from your job on hate crimes charges.

In truth it would be hard for the Saudi's to buck the trend - that is working against Islamization of the Western world. But by all means they are free to try.


The government of Saudi Arabia and Saudi companies want to invest billions of euros in the Netherlands.

This is Amr Al-Dabbagh, governor of the state investment company Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (Sagia), said yesterday in an interview with the Financial Times. "After oil capital is our largest export product. We have a lot of money for the export of capital available. And we want a fair share of Netherlands gets, "said the governor of Sagia.

Saudi Arabia is engaged in a charm offensive, now mega-investments by state funds in recent years in the West have proved politically sensitive. The country has the coming years along with other oil states and Asian countries thousands of billions to invest. The ability of the state funds from oil-exporting countries will grow from $ 5000 billion at the end of last year to $ 13.000 billion in 2013, estimates McKinsey.

Saudi Arabia will invest in Dutch intellectual capital

The Saudis want to invest in the Netherlands in the food processing industry, agribusiness, technology companies and other firms that Saudi Arabia of knowledge and intellectual capital can provide. "We seek investments that provide added value for the Saudi economy can produce."

Governor Amr Al-Dabbagh, who yesterday visited several Dutch companies and held a lecture at the Rotterdam School of Management, also calls on Dutch companies to invest more in his homeland. "We currently build four new economic cities, where foreign investors a 100 '% in projects can take. There are tremendous opportunities for Dutch business. Saudi Arabia is for them an engine of economic growth, especially now as the traditional market outlets because of the economic crisis fail. We lay the red carpet for the Dutch business from. "

No concrete talks

The boss of the government investment agency speaks with pride about his homeland, which recently part of the G20 and this year the 'Doing business' list of the World Bank ranks thirteenth. This list looks at the business climate in 181 countries. "In 2004 we were still in place today at 67 and 13. In 2010 we want the top 10 most competitive countries in the world. "

Amr Al-Dabbagh is no concrete examples of interviews with Dutch companies about investment. That the Saudis in the Dutch agribusiness to invest, however, is obvious. This is a much higher level than in countries like Egypt, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Turkey, where they have invested billions in recent years with the aim of food domestically secure.

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Netherlands already has some big Saudi investors. Sabic offers in Limburg, the acquisition of a DSM-division (2002) employs about two thousand people. Sister company Sabic Innovative Plastics, formerly GE Plastics, Bergen op Zoom in 1300 employees. State oil company Saudi Aramco is also a well known investor. These investments were in the Netherlands hardly controversial.

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