I have, since the latter part of 2001, for reasons of sheer survival, kept up with khutbahs (major sermons), from Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem on alminbar.com, a website that helps Muslim clerics prepare their sermons. At alminbar.com, you will find the current drug policy of the George W. Bush administration under the title "Islamic Legislation on Drugs."

Surely no one really thought that the Saudi princes pouring this money into GOP campaign coffers (and shutting up the left by pouring insane amounts into academe, $1.8 billion in a single bequest to Harvard alone!) were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? No nation that has a "chopping square" in its capital city, and that lets schoolgirls be burned alive by its police because of "inappropriate" dress, has any goodness residing in what passes for its heart!

Nope, what they eventually want (and have repeatedly stated they want) is a caliphate here in the United States, and they're buying it. . . . I fear that the world forecast by George Alec Effinger is coming all too fast, and the Bushies are in one great hurry to bring it along. (The Arabs customarily pay at the end of the contract . . . of course, in the Koran, at the end of a contract with a Kafir, you are as a believer quite free to kill same, and I do believe there is an actual religious obligation to do so, just not during Ramadan. The Bushies don't seem that trusting, mayhap just stupid . . . congenitally . . . all that "breeding," which is just a euphemism for inbreeding as we all know!) The intellectuals will as usual go to the highest bidder. "Intellectuals" should not be confused with "intelligent."

This is tangled up pretty wildly, the more one digs the more insane it gets. . . . When Joe McCarthy referred to the Democrats' "twenty years of treason," it was a lie. But to say it now of the Republicans and their intimate relationship with Islam could well be a demonstrable truth. But in keeping with the insane but profitable prattling of their high-rolling, chain-smoking, top-shelf-visaged sage William Bennett, they have "defined deviancy down" so that a hostile foreign power is only that, if the bought-off Adminstration says it is . . . fat chance, hunh?

Having had open-heart surgery recently, I know I'm on every fundamentalist "fecal roster" anyway, as an "abomination." In the Old Testament and the Koran, "life" is not defined by brain activity but by breath and heartbeat. And if your breath and heartbeat have been shut off for a few hours, why, you're dead, of course! So now by this superstitious drivel that I'm supposed to accept as equal to civilization's greatest advances, I must be a djinn inhabiting a dead body . . . can you buy that?. A billion people do, and the evil eye and flat earth too! We never really had to fear a nuclear war, but the threat of a dark age is ever upon us!!!!

Drug warriors are the advance troops in the armies of darkness, our version of religious police, and they are indeed driven by religious precepts not widely held, so they hang white coats on it and pretend it's "health."

The left has also discovered this little dodge for their own agendas, which of late also come from Riyadh. When you've bought academe, you've bought the left, as the late Ben Hill Griffith knew. The left remains silent on the migrant worker question right in their back yards, doesn't it? Throw enough money at a school — and Ben Hill Griffith threw a piddling (by shayk standards) $100 million at a major school. For that much cash he could have thrown 'em into fetid swamps with no fear of left-wing criticism, and indeed there has been none.

It is time to start questioning loyalty, not of average citizens, but of alleged leaders whose foreign allegiances are . . . well, killing us!