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Testimony of Ali Al-Ahmed
Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee for the opportunity to speak to
you about the State Departments 2005 Human Rights Report and the situation in the
Middle East in the area of human rights. I will review the overall condition of the region
with particular attention to my home country of Saudi Arabia and then discus the
persecution of my family by the Saudi government as a result of my work here in the
United States.
Darfur
The largest human rights catastrophe in the region is in Darfur, where hundreds of
thousands of Sunni Muslim African blacks are being massacred at the hands of a Sunni
Arab government. Supporting this crime are other Arab political and religious leaders
who revile the US and the West at every chance they get, but who are tacitly approving
the murdered and rape of women, man, and children in Darfur, through their silence and
media blackout.
Darfur has not been the exception, but rather the rule. There are many non-Arab cultures
and peoples that are persecuted in the region over their faith or ethnicity. They include
Copts, Kurds, Africans, Neopians, Amazigh, Sharkas, Armenian, Persian, Indians,
Chaldeans, Assyrians and many others. The same goes for non-Muslims that include
Jews, Christians, Azydees, Sabane, Druze, and others that are persecuted and even
murdered for their faith.
In addition to persecuting non Arabs and non Muslims, Muslim religious and ethnic
minorities have suffered the brunt of totalitarian regimes and their extremist allies.
Today, the main victims of terrorism in the Middle East are the Shia Arabs and Sunni
Muslim Africans. Most Arab governments and certain Satellite Stations have made their
prime goal to wage a war against the Shia Muslims in the Middle East, and other
religious and ethnic minorities.
I will shed light today in the case for the Shia Arabs of the Middle East, who are enduring
severe marginalization, intimidation, and straight out genocidal campaign. In Iraq they
are murdered by the dozens every day, with the support of neighboring countries such as
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Syria.
In Bahrain, the majority of the population is Shia Arabs who are marginalized
politically, economically, academically and religiously. They are deprived from
even assuming the position of a police officer.
UAE
The United Arab Emirates continues to be the only country in the world that has never
seen any form of elections. The practice of using poor expatriate children as camel
jockeys for the entertainment of the rich and powerful continues. The UAE practices
religious discrimination against Shia Arabs in employment.
Qatar: the Muraa Tribe
The Qatari government stripped six thousand indigenous Sunni Arabs, of the Murra tribe
from their citizenship, as a collective banishment. They lost their jobs, any public
benefits. The Qatari government also discriminates against its Shia citizens who make up
15% of the population. They are banned from government TV and Radio, as well as from
establishing financial institutions.
Shia Arabs
In Saudi Arabia, the Shia, make up about 20 percent of the population, and are treated as
second class citizens. Unlike Sunni Arab minority in Iraq, the Shia Arab minority in
Saudi Arabia plays no political role, and is under a total media shutout from government
TV and radio. Shia Arabs are banned from leading a single government agency. They are
officially banned from a long list of official positions that include the following:
diplomats, ministers, judges, military officer, religion teacher, and many other positions.
In fact, the Saudi embassy in Washington is a stark example of that policy. It has never
employed a single Shia in its entire history.
The sectarian government of Saudi Arabia is the most anti-Shia government in the world.
A recent case took place in Saudi Arabia where a Saudi judge denied Mr. Alaa Amin al-
Saada from Safwa to act as a witness in the marriage of his Sunni employer's daughter.
The reason was that he was a Shia Muslim deemed by the Saudi government to be a
heretic. Mr. al-Saada complained to the Minister of Justice and did not receive an
answer.
Another example is Professor Mohamed Al-Hassan from Riyadh, who has been the target
of the Saudi government persecution for the past four years. He has been threatened with
death, and banned from work and travel. The State Department has declined to publish
Dr. Al-Hassan's name in their annual report, a policy they have not used with other
reformer.
Hijaz
The people of the Hejaz, are mostly Sunni Muslim who suffer under the Saudi
government. Their unique cultural heritage and religious understanding have been
assailed by the Saudi government. Hundreds of Islamic landmarks in the holy cities of
Makkah and Madina, including the houses of Prophet Muhammad are being permanently
destroyed as part of a government war against the Hijazi people and their culture. These
historical sites are being destroyed in the absence of any outrage by Muslims. The
campaign even reached Hejazi music. Last December the Saudi Interior Minister ordered
the closing of a Hejazi Music museum.
The Saudi partial elections has been discriminatory, and violated international standards.
Women were barred from voting and running to office. These elections should have
elicited international condemnation, as they have banned women. They would have
received condemnation, and called sectarian, and racist if they had excluded Shia or
blacks.
My Family
My work, including speaking before you today, has caused a great deal of hardship for
my family at the hands of the oppressive Saudi government. My mother, Malika al-
Habib who is 67 years old and in need of urgent medical care in the United States has not
been allowed to leave the country with my oldest brother, Abdullah. Abdullah needs to
travel to bring our mother for treatment in the United States, where she needs back
surgery as soon as possible, and other medical procedures following a car accident last
November. She is covered under his insurance, which cannot be active unless he is
present with her.
Abdullah was imprisoned in July 1999 for 19 months and later with his family banned
from foreign travel to date. In 2001, the government arrested my younger brother Kamil.
Kamil has been in prison for five years now without any charge nor allowed legal
representation, after the government denied him his right to a lawyer. Kamil was tortured,
by Saudi officials in Dammam and years of his youthful life have been lost.
The United States State Department has intentionally kept the case of my brothers off the
annual human rights report. The case of Kamil and Abdullah has been provided to them
in my many letters to President Bush, Secretary Powell and Rice, Ambassador Robert
Jordan and James Oberwetter, and to the directors and staff of Office of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have also
reported the case several times. In fact, in 2004, Congresswomen Rose-Latiopin wrote to
the State Department on the case of Kamil. I consider the State Department negligent in
this matter.
The Saudi embassy confiscated my passport in March 2004, after I applied for a renewal.
They have refused to give me one reason for the confiscation. The State department is
fully aware of the issue from the beginning. I remain without a passport since then.
American in Saudi Arabia
There are over 35,000 Americans in Saudi Arabia, who are deprived from their religion
and basic human rights enjoyed by their Saudi counterparts in the United States. While I
can pry inside this building, and buy a Quran anywhere in the US, my American
counterparts in Riyadh are not allowed to wear their sacred cross, or gather publicly for
Christian service. If Saudis or other Muslims were treated even remotely as bad in
America as foreigners are treated in Saudi Arabia there would be major international
reaction.
I urge you to investigate the situation of my American counterparts in Saudi Arabia, to
ensure their rights to publicly celebrate their religious and national holidays, such as
Christmas and the Fourth of July as well as other American national holidays.
I urge you to ask the State department to devote a section in their annual human rights
and religious freedom to report on the situation of American communities in Saudi
Arabia and other countries around the world.
Thank you for your kind invitation
Ali Al-Ahmed
The Institute for Gulf Affairs
Director
