Senate To Hold Hearings On Saudi Literature In U.S. Mosques

The New York Sun reported last week that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings for October 25 to examine reports that documents inciting Muslims to acts of violence and which promote hatred of Jews and Christians were being distributed by the Saudi Arabian government to mosques in the U.S. The materials were first called to public attention in a report issued earlier this year by Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom. The Senate hearings are part of the Committee’s consideration of the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2005 (S. 1171).