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Saudi Arabia's harsh vision of Islam blamed for rising extremism
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don't agree on much, but Saudi Arabia may be an exception. She has deplored Saudi Arabia's support for "radical schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path towards extremism." He has called the Saudis "the world's biggest funders of terrorism."The first American diplomat to serve as envoy to Muslim communities around the world visited 80 countries and concluded that the Saudi influence was destroying tolerant Islamic traditions. "If the Saudis do not cease what they are doing," the official, Farah Pandith, wrote last year, "there must be diplomatic, cultural and economic consequences."
And hardly a week passes without a television pundit or a newspaper columnist blaming Saudi Arabia for jihadi violence. On HBO, Bill Maher calls Saudi teachings "medieval," adding an epithet. In The Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria writes that the Saudis have "created a monster in the world of Islam."
The idea has become a commonplace: that Saudi Arabia's export of the rigid, bigoted, patriarchal, fundamentalist strain of Islam known as Wahhabism has fueled global extremism and contributed to terrorism. As the Islamic State projects its menacing calls for violence into the West, directing or inspiring terrorist attacks in country after country, an old debate over Saudi influence on Islam has taken on new relevance.
Is the world today a more divided, dangerous and violent place because of the cumulative effect of five decades of oil-financed proselytizing from the historical heart of the Muslim world? Or is Saudi Arabia, which has often supported Western-friendly autocrats over Islamists, merely a convenient scapegoat for extremism and terrorism with many complex causes — the United States's own actions among them?
Those questions are deeply contentious, partly because of the contradictory impulses of the Saudi state.
In the realm of extremist Islam, the Saudis are "both the arsonists and the firefighters," said William McCants, a Brookings Institution scholar. "They promote a very toxic form of Islam that draws sharp lines between a small number of true believers and everyone else, Muslim and non-Muslim," he said, providing ideological fodder for violent jihadis.
Yet at the same time, "they're our partners in counterterrorism," said McCants, one of three dozen academics, government officials and experts on Islam from multiple countries interviewed for this article.
Saudi leaders seek good relations with the West and see jihadi violence as a menace that could endanger their rule, especially now that the Islamic State is staging attacks in the kingdom — 25 in the last eight months, by the government's count. But they are also driven by their rivalry with Iran, and they depend for legitimacy on a clerical establishment dedicated to a reactionary set of beliefs. Those conflicting goals can play out in a bafflingly inconsistent manner.
Thomas Hegghammer, a Norwegian terrorism expert who has advised the US government, said the most important effect of Saudi proselytizing might have been to slow the evolution of Islam, blocking its natural accommodation to a diverse and globalized world. "If there was going to be an Islamic reformation in the 20th century, the Saudis probably prevented it by pumping out literalism," he said.
The reach of the Saudis has been stunning, touching nearly every country with a Muslim population, from the Gothenburg Mosque in Sweden to the King Faisal Mosque in Chad, from the King Fahad Mosque in Los Angeles to the Seoul Central Mosque in South Korea. Support has come from the Saudi government; the royal family; Saudi charities; and Saudi-sponsored organizations including the World Muslim League, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the International Islamic Relief Organization, providing the hardware of impressive edifices and the software of preaching and teaching.
There is a broad consensus that the Saudi ideological juggernaut has disrupted local Islamic traditions in dozens of countries — the result of lavish spending on religious outreach for half a century, estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. The result has been amplified by guest workers, many from South Asia, who spend years in Saudi Arabia and bring Saudi ways home with them. In many countries, Wahhabist preaching has encouraged a harshly judgmental religion, contributing to majority support in some polls in Egypt, Pakistan and other countries for stoning for adultery and execution for anyone trying to leave Islam.
But exactly how Saudi influence plays out seems to depend greatly on local conditions.
In parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, for instance, Saudi teachings have shifted the religious culture in a markedly conservative direction, most visibly in the decision of more women to cover their hair or of men to grow beards. Among Muslim immigrant communities in Europe, the Saudi influence seems to be just one factor driving radicalization, and not the most significant. In divided countries like Pakistan and Nigeria, the flood of Saudi money, and the ideology it promotes, have exacerbated divisions over religion that regularly prove lethal.
And for a small minority in many countries, the exclusionary Saudi version of Sunni Islam, with its denigration of Jews and Christians, as well as of Muslims of Shiite, Sufi and other traditions, may have made some people vulnerable to the lure of al-Qaida, the Islamic State and other violent jihadist groups. "There's only so much dehumanizing of the other that you can be exposed to — and exposed to as the word of God — without becoming susceptible to recruitment," said David Andrew Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington who tracks Saudi influence.
Exhibit A may be Saudi Arabia itself, which produced not only Osama bin Laden, but also 15 of the 19 hijackers of Sept. 11, 2001; sent more suicide bombers than any other country to Iraq after the 2003 invasion; and has supplied more foreign fighters to the Islamic State, 2,500, than any country other than Tunisia.
Mehmet Gormez, the senior Islamic cleric in Turkey, said that while he was meeting with Saudi clerics in Riyadh in January, the Saudi authorities had executed 47 people in a single day on terrorism charges, 45 of them Saudi citizens. "I said: 'These people studied Islam for 10 or 15 years in your country. Is there a problem with the educational system?'" Gormez said in an interview.
He argued that Wahhabi teaching was undermining the pluralism, tolerance and openness to science and learning that had long characterized Islam. "Sadly," he said, the changes have taken place "in almost all of the Islamic world."
In a huge embarrassment to the Saudi authorities, the Islamic State adopted official Saudi textbooks for its schools until the extremist group could publish its own books in 2014. Out of 12 works by Muslim scholars republished by the Islamic State, seven are by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the 18th-century founder of the Saudi school of Islam, said Jacob Olidort, a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. A former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Adil al-Kalbani declared with regret in a television interview in January that the Islamic State leaders "draw their ideas from what is written in our own books, our own principles."
Small details of Saudi practice can cause outsize trouble. For at least two decades, the kingdom has distributed an English translation of the Quran that in the first surah, or chapter, adds parenthetical references to Jews and Christians in addressing Allah: "those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians)." Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University and the editor in chief of the new Study Quran, an annotated English version, said the additions were "a complete heresy, with no basis in Islamic tradition."
Accordingly, many US officials who have worked to counter extremism and terrorism have formed a dark view of the Saudi effect — even if, given the sensitivity of the relationship, they are often loath to discuss it publicly. The United States' reliance on Saudi counterterrorism cooperation in recent years — for instance, the Saudi tip that foiled a 2010 al-Qaida plot to blow up two US cargo planes — has often taken precedence over concerns about radical influence. And generous Saudi funding for professorships and research centers at American universities, including the most elite institutions, has deterred criticism and discouraged research on the effects of Wahhabi proselytizing, according to McCants — who is working on a book about the Saudi impact on global Islam — and other scholars.
One American former official who has begun to speak out is Pandith, the State Department's first special representative to Muslim communities worldwide. From 2009 to 2014, she visited Muslims in 80 countries and concluded that Saudi influence was pernicious and universal.
"In each place I visited, the Wahhabi influence was an insidious presence," she wrote in The New York Times last year. She said the United States should "disrupt the training of extremist imams," "reject free Saudi textbooks and translations that are filled with hate," and "prevent the Saudis from demolishing local Muslim religious and cultural sites that are evidence of the diversity of Islam." She plans to address the subject in a book scheduled for publication next year.
Yet some scholars on Islam and extremism, including experts on radicalization in many countries, push back against the notion that Saudi Arabia bears predominant responsibility for the current wave of extremism and jihadi violence. They point to multiple sources for the rise and spread of Islamist terrorism, including repressive secular governments in the Middle East, local injustices and divisions, the hijacking of the internet for terrorist propaganda, and US interventions in the Muslim world from the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan to the invasion of Iraq. The 20th-century ideologues most influential with modern jihadists, like Sayyid Qutb of Egypt and Abul Ala Maududi of Pakistan, reached their extreme, anti-Western views without much Saudi input. Al-Qaida and the Islamic State despise Saudi rulers, whom they consider the worst of hypocrites.
"Americans like to have someone to blame — a person, a political party or country," said Robert S. Ford, a former US ambassador to Syria and Algeria. "But it's a lot more complicated than that. I'd be careful about blaming the Saudis."
While Saudi religious influence may be disruptive, he and others say, its effect is not monolithic. A major tenet of official Saudi Islamic teaching is obedience to rulers — hardly a precept that encourages terrorism intended to break nations. Many Saudi and Saudi-trained clerics are quietist, characterized by a devotion to scripture and prayer and a shunning of politics, let alone political violence.
And especially since 2003, when al-Qaida attacks in the kingdom awoke the monarchy to the danger it faced from militancy, Saudi Arabia has acted more aggressively to curtail preachers who call for violence, cut off terrorist financing and cooperate with Western intelligence to foil terrorist plots. From 2004 to 2012, 3,500 imams were fired for refusing to renounce extremist views, and another 20,000 went through retraining, according to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs — though the US Commission on International Religious Freedom expressed skepticism that the training was really "instilling tolerance."
An American scholar with long experience in Saudi Arabia — who spoke on condition of anonymity to preserve his ability to travel to the kingdom for research — said he believed that Saudi influence had often been exaggerated in American political discourse. But he compared it to climate change. Just as a one-degree increase in temperature can ultimately result in drastic effects around the globe, with glaciers melting and species dying off, so Saudi teaching is playing out in many countries in ways that are hard to predict and difficult to trace but often profound, the scholar said.
Saudi proselytizing can result in a "recalibrating of the religious center of gravity" for young people, the scholar said, which makes it "easier for them to swallow or make sense of the ISIS religious narrative when it does arrive. It doesn't seem quite as foreign as it might have, had that Saudi religious influence not been there."
Centuries-Old dilemma
Why does Saudi Arabia find it so difficult to let go of an ideology that much of the world finds repugnant? The key to the Saudi dilemma dates back nearly three centuries to the origin of the alliance that still undergirds the Saudi state.
In 1745, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a reformist cleric, sought the protection of Muhammad bin Saud, a powerful tribal leader in the harsh desert of the Arabian Peninsula. The alliance was mutually beneficial: al-Wahhab received military protection for his movement, which sought to return Muslims to what he believed were the values of the early years of Islam in the seventh century, when the Prophet Muhammad was alive. (His beliefs were a variant of Salafism, the conservative school of Islam that teaches that the salaf, or pious ancestors, had the correct ways and beliefs and should be emulated.) In return, the Saud family earned the endorsement of an Islamic cleric — a puritanical enforcer known for insisting on the death by stoning of a woman for adultery.
Al-Wahhab's particular version of Islam was the first of two historical accidents that would define Saudi religious influence centuries later. What came to be known as Wahhabism was "a tribal, desert Islam," said Akbar Ahmed, the chairman of Islamic studies at American University in Washington. It was shaped by the austere environment — xenophobic, fiercely opposed to shrines and tombs, disapproving of art and music, and hugely different from the cosmopolitan Islam of diverse trading cities like Baghdad and Cairo.
The second historical accident came in 1938, when American prospectors discovered the largest oil reserves on earth in Saudi Arabia. Oil
revenue generated by the Arabian-American Oil Co., or Aramco, created fabulous wealth. But it also froze in place a rigid social and economic system and gave the conservative religious establishment an extravagant budget for the export of its severe strain of Islam.
"One day you find oil, and the world is coming to you," Ahmed said. "God has given you the ability to take your version of Islam to the world."
In 1964, when King Faisal ascended the throne, he embraced the obligation of spreading Islam. A modernizer in many respects, with close ties to the West, he nonetheless could not overhaul the Wahhabi doctrine that became the face of Saudi generosity in many countries.
Over the next four decades, in non-Muslim-majority countries alone, Saudi Arabia would build 1,359 mosques, 210 Islamic centers, 202 colleges and 2,000 schools. Saudi money helped finance 16 American mosques; four in Canada; and others in London, Madrid, Brussels and Geneva, according to a report in an official Saudi weekly, Ain al-Yaqeen. The total spending, including supplying or training imams and teachers, was "many billions" of Saudi riyals (at a rate of about four to a dollar), the report said.
Saudi religious teaching had particular force because it came from the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, the land of Islam's two holiest places, Mecca and Medina. When Saudi imams arrived in Muslim countries in Asia or Africa, or in Muslim communities in Europe or the Americas, wearing traditional Arabian robes, speaking the language of the Quran — and carrying a generous checkbook — they had automatic credibility.
As the 20th century progressed and people of different nationalities and faiths mixed routinely, the puritanical, exclusionary nature of al-Wahhab's teachings would become more and more dysfunctional. But the Saudi government would find it extraordinarily difficult to shed or soften its ideology, especially after the landmark year of 1979.
In Tehran that year, the Iranian revolution brought to power a radical Shiite government, symbolically challenging Saudi Arabia, the leader of Sunnism, for leadership of global Islam. The declaration of an Islamic Republic escalated the competition between the two major branches of Islam, spurring the Saudis to redouble their efforts to counter Iran and spread Wahhabism around the world.
Then, in a stunning strike, a band of 500 Saudi extremists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca for two weeks, publicly calling Saudi rulers puppets of the West and traitors to true Islam. The rebels were defeated, but leading clerics agreed to back the government only after assurances of support for a crackdown on immodest ways in the kingdom and a more aggressive export of Wahhabism abroad.
Finally, at year's end, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and seized power to prop up a Communist government. It soon faced an insurgent movement of mujahedeen, or holy warriors battling for Islam, which drew fighters from around the world for a decade-long battle to expel the occupiers.
Throughout the 1980s, Saudi Arabia and the United States worked together to finance the mujahedeen in this great Afghan war, which would revive the notion of noble armed jihad for Muslims worldwide. President Ronald Reagan famously welcomed to the Oval Office a delegation of bearded "Afghan freedom fighters" whose social and theological views were hardly distinguishable from those later embraced by the Taliban.
In fact, the United States spent $50 million from 1986 to 1992 on what was called a "jihad literacy" project — printing books for Afghan children and adults to encourage violence against non-Muslim "infidels" like Soviet troops. A first-grade language textbook for Pashto speakers, for example, according to a study by Dana Burde, an associate professor at New York University, used "Mujahid," or fighter of jihad, as the illustration: "My brother is a Mujahid. Afghan Muslims are Mujahedeen. I do jihad together with them. Doing jihad against infidels is our duty."
Pressure After 9/11
One day in the months after the September 11 attacks, Robert W Jordan, the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, was driving in the kingdom with the longtime Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan. The prince pointed to a mosque and said, "I just fired the imam there." The man's preaching had been too militant, he said.
Jordan, a Texas lawyer, said that after the Qaida attacks, he had stepped up pressure on the Saudi government over its spread of extremism. "I told them: 'What you teach in your schools and preach in your mosques now is not an internal matter. It affects our national security,'" he said.
After years of encouraging and financing a harsh Islam in support of the anti-Soviet jihad, the United States had reversed course — gradually during the 1990s and then dramatically after the Sept. 11 attacks. But in pressuring Saudi Arabia, US officials would tread lightly, acutely aware of American dependence on Saudi oil and intelligence cooperation. Saudi reform would move at an excruciatingly slow pace.
Twelve years after September 11, after years of quiet American complaints about Saudi teachings, a State Department contractor, the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy, completed a study of official Saudi textbooks. It reported some progress in cutting back on bigoted and violent content but found that plenty of objectionable material remained. Officials never released the 2013 study, for fear of angering the Saudis. The New York Times obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act.
Seventh-graders were being taught that "fighting the infidels to elevate the words of Allah" was among the deeds Allah loved the most, the report found, among dozens of passages it found troubling. Tenth-graders learned that Muslims who abandoned Islam should be jailed for three days and, if they did not change their minds, "killed for walking away from their true religion." Fourth-graders read that non-Muslims had been "shown the truth but abandoned it, like the Jews," or had replaced truth with "ignorance and delusion, like the Christians."
Some of the books, prepared and distributed by the government, propagated views that were hostile to science, modernity and women's rights, not to say downright quirky — advocating, for instance, execution for sorcerers and warning against the dangers of the Rotary Club and the Lions Club. (The groups' intent, said a 10th-grade textbook, "is to achieve the goals of the Zionist movement.")
The textbooks, or other Saudi teaching materials with similar content, had been distributed in scores of countries, the study found. Textbook reform has continued since the 2013 study, and Saudi officials say they are trying to replace older books distributed overseas.
But as the study noted, the schoolbooks were only a modest part of the Saudis' lavishly funded global export of Wahhabism. In many places, the study said, the largess includes "a Saudi-funded school with a Wahhabist faculty (educated in a Saudi-funded Wahhabist University), attached to a mosque with a Wahhabist imam, and ultimately controlled by an international Wahhabist educational body."
This ideological steamroller has landed in diverse places where Muslims of different sects had spent centuries learning to accommodate one another. Sayyed Shah, a Pakistani journalist working on a doctorate in the United States, described the devastating effect on his town, not far from the Afghan border, of the arrival some years ago of a young Pakistani preacher trained in a Saudi-funded seminary.
Village residents had long held a melange of Muslim beliefs, he said. "We were Sunni, but our culture, our traditions were a mixture of Shia and Barelvi and Deobandi," Shah said, referring to Muslim sects. His family would visit the large Barelvi shrine, and watch their Shiite neighbors as they lashed themselves in a public religious ritual. "We wouldn't do that ourselves, but we'd hand out sweets and water," he said.
The new preacher, he said, denounced the Barelvi and Shiite beliefs as false and heretical, dividing the community and setting off years of bitter argument. By 2010, Shah said, "everything had changed." Women who had used shawls to cover their hair and face began wearing full burqas. Militants began attacking kiosks where merchants sold secular music CDs. Twice, terrorists used explosives to try to destroy the village's locally famous shrine.
Now, Shah said, families are divided; his cousin, he said, "just wants Saudi religion." He said an entire generation had been "indoctrinated" with a rigid, unforgiving creed.
"It's so difficult these days," he said. "Initially we were on a single path. We just had economic problems, but we were culturally sound."
He added, "But now it's very difficult, because some people want Saudi culture to be our culture, and others are opposing that."
C Christine Fair, a specialist on Pakistan at Georgetown University, said Shah's account was credible. But like many scholars describing the Saudi impact on religion, she said that militancy in Pakistan also had local causes. While Saudi money and teaching have unquestionably been "accelerants," Pakistan's sectarian troubles and jihadist violence have deep roots dating to the country's origins in the partition of India in 1947.
"The idea that without the Saudis Pakistan would be Switzerland is ridiculous," she said.
Elusive Saudi links
That is the disputed question, of course: how the world would be different without decades of Saudi-funded shaping of Islam. Though there is a widespread belief that Saudi influence has contributed to the growth of terrorism, it is rare to find a direct case of cause and effect.
For example, in Brussels, the Grand Mosque was built with Saudi money and staffed with Saudi imams. In 2012, according to Saudi diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, one Saudi preacher was removed after Belgian complaints that he was a "true Salafi" who did not accept other schools of Islam. And Brussels' immigrant neighborhoods, notably Molenbeek, have long been the home of storefront mosques teaching hard-line Salafi views.
After the terrorist attacks in Paris in November and in Brussels in March were tied to an Islamic State cell in Belgium, the Saudi history was the subject of several news media reports. Yet it was difficult to find any direct link between the bombers and the Saudi legacy in the Belgian capital.
Several suspects had petty criminal backgrounds; their knowledge of Islam was described by friends as superficial; they did not appear to be regulars at any mosque. Though the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blasts, resentment of the treatment of North African immigrant families in Belgium and exposure to Islamic State propaganda, in person or via the internet and social media, appeared to be the major factors motivating the attacks.
If there was a Saudi connection, it was highly indirect, perhaps playing out over a generation or longer. Hind Fraihi, a Moroccan-Belgian journalist who went underground in the Brussels immigrant neighborhood of Molenbeek in 2005 and wrote a book about it, met Saudi-trained imams and found lots of extremist literature written in Saudi Arabia that encouraged "polarization, the sentiment of us against them, the glorification of jihad."
The recent attackers, Fraihi said, were motivated by "lots of factors — economic frustration, racism, a generation that feels it has no future." But Saudi teaching, she said, "is part of the cocktail."
Without the Saudi presence over the decades, might a more progressive and accommodating Islam, reflecting immigrants' Moroccan roots, have taken hold in Brussels? Would young Muslims raised in Belgium have been less susceptible to the stark, violent call of the Islamic State? Conceivably, but the case is impossible to prove.
Or consider an utterly different cultural milieu — the world's most populous Muslim country, Indonesia. The Saudis have sent money for mosque-building, books and teachers for decades, said Sidney Jones, the director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict in Jakarta.
"Over time," said Jones, who has visited or lived in Indonesia since the 1970s, the Saudi influence "has contributed to a more conservative, more intolerant atmosphere." (President Barack Obama, who lived in Indonesia as a boy, has remarked on the same phenomenon.) She said she believed money from private Saudi donors and foundations was behind campaigns in Indonesia against Shiite and Ahmadi Islam, considered heretical by Wahhabi teaching. Some well-known Indonesian religious vigilantes are Saudi-educated, she said.
But when Jones studied the approximately 1,000 people arrested in Indonesia on terrorism charges since 2002, she found only a few — "literally four or five" — with ties to Wahhabi or Salafi institutions. When it comes to violence, she concluded, the Saudi connection is "mostly a red herring."
In fact, she said, there is a gulf between Indonesian jihadists and Indonesian Salafis who look to Saudi or Yemeni scholars for guidance. The jihadists accuse the Salafis of failing to act on their convictions; the Salafis scorn the jihadists as extremists.


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The Chair of Materials Test Engineering (WPT) is located in the "Maschinenbau III" building, which can be reached via entrance 41, where parking spaces are available. The secretariat is located on the third floor in E 03 - room 3.027.
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Baroper Straße 303
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TU Dortmund University has its own train station ("Dortmund Universität"). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dortmund main station ("Dortmund Hauptbahnhof") and Düsseldorf main station via the "Düsseldorf Airport Train Station" (take S-Bahn number 1). The university is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg. From there, Campus Süd, where the Department of Materials Test Engineering (WPT) is located, can be reached in five minutes via the H-Bahn in the direction of "Eichlinghofen" or "Campus Süd".
After leaving the H-Bahn station "Campus Süd" cross the small street and go straight forward. Take the stairs (elevator on the left side).
Turn right directly under the canopy, go approximately 200 m, the Building "Maschinenbau III" is at the end of the path.
The office is located on the third floor in E03 - room 3.027.
Dortmund's public transport company DSW21 offers an interactive route network map with timetable information.
The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Dortmund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of international flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the university station.
The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dortmund University. There are two stations on Campus Nord. One ("Dortmund Universität S") is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the university directly with the city of Dortmund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the "Technologiepark" and (via Campus Süd) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at Campus Nord and offers a direct connection to Campus Süd every five minutes.
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Squamous cells are found throughout our body; they line the surface of many parts of our body, protecting the tissue and organs beneath. They are found in our respiratory tracts and also our digestive tracts. In our skin, squamous cells make up the outer part of our epidermis (the outermost layer of skin).
Our squamous cells are continually being replaced- newer squamous cells are made to replace the older squamous cells, which are being shed over time. Squamous cell cancers occur when the normal cycle is disrupted, and the squamous cells grow out of control. They can occur anywhere in the body where squamous cells are found, often in the skin. Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is the second most common type of skin cancer.
Squamous cell carcinomas appear most frequently in areas exposed to direct sunlight, such as the face, ears, lips, neck, and back of the hands. They can arise from pre-cancerous growths called actinic keratoses. They can also occur from areas of chronic inflammation or injury.
While most squamous cell carcinomas can be easily treated and cured, these skin cancers can be deadly if left unchecked.
What are the Symptoms of Squamous Cell Carcinoma?
Knowing the signs and symptoms of squamous cell carcinoma can help with early detection, treatment, and cure.
What can squamous cell carcinoma look like?
- Rough, scaly, red patch
- Wart-like growth
- Horn-like growth
- Firm dome-shaped growth with a central crater
- Non-healing sore
- Crusted lesion which is tender, persistent, or bleeds
What are the Risks Factors for Developing a Squamous Cell Carcinoma?
Certain factors can make you more predisposed to developing squamous cell carcinoma including:
- UV radiation in the form of sun exposure or use of tanning beds
- Fair skin
- Increasing age
- Male sex
- A personal history of pre-cancers (actinic keratoses) or skin cancers
- Weakened immune system because of illness or certain immune suppressing drugs, such as those taken by transplant patients
- Long-term skin inflammation or injury
- History of human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Smoking
Protecting your skin from the sun can help reduce your risk for squamous cell carcinomas. Dermatologists recommend avoiding the sun during peak hours, applying broad spectrum sunscreen (SPF 30 or higher), and wearing sun protective clothing. The use of tanning beds is also strongly discouraged.
Dermatologists recommend routinely checking your skin and scheduling an appointment to evaluate any new, unusual, changing, or symptomatic growths.
How is Squamous Cell Carcinoma Diagnosed?
Any new, unusual, changing, or symptomatic growth should prompt a visit to your dermatologist. If you have risk factors (personal or family history of skin cancers, transplant recipient, significant sun exposure or tanning bed use in the past, etc), scheduling regular appointments with your dermatologist can help with accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers.
Your dermatologist will evaluate your skin and any lesions or growths of concern at your visit. A skin biopsy (a procedure that removes a small skin sample) is usually done to confirm a definitive diagnosis. Once the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma has been confirmed, your dermatologist will discuss treatment options.
Treatment for Squamous Cell Carcinoma:
When detected early, most squamous cell carcinomas can be treated and cured. Treatment is important because untreated skin cancers will continue to grow and spread. Squamous cell carcinomas can metastasize and spread to lymph nodes and other parts of your body beyond the skin. Ultimately, untreated squamous cell carcinomas can be deadly.
The most common treatment options for squamous cell carcinomas include:
Curettage and Electrodessication (ED&C):
Curettage and electrodesiccation are commonly used to treat small, superficial squamous cell carcinomas. A dermatologist uses a sharp round instrument called a curette to scrape away at the skin cancer cells during the procedure. After scraping the site, heat is applied to destroy the remaining skin cancer cells and control the bleeding. The scraping and heat application may be repeated a few times during the treatment session to ensure squamous cell carcinoma removal. The procedure usually leaves behind a round white scar.
Surgical excision is commonly used to remove squamous cell carcinomas. The dermatologist uses a scalpel blade during the procedure to excise or cut out skin cancer. The visible skin cancer, along with a margin of normal skin at the skin cancer border is removed and sent off for evaluation at a pathology lab to ensure that the skin cancer was removed entirely. The surgical site is then closed with sutures. The procedure usually leaves behind a line or linear scar.
Mohs surgery
Mohs surgery is a specialized technique used to treat skin cancers in sensitive locations such as the eyes, nose, lips, ears, fingers, and toes. It is also the treatment of choice for large and/or aggressive skin cancers with poorly defined borders.
During the procedure, a Mohs surgeon will remove the visible skin tumor and a very small margin of normal skin at the skin cancer border. While the patient is still present in the office, the tissue is processed and evaluated by the Mohs surgeon to determine if any skin cancer cells persist and where the persistent skin cancer cells reside. If skin cancer cells are still present, the Mohs surgeon will return to the patient to remove additional tissue at the site where skin cancer cells were noted. The process is repeated in stages, each time removing additional tissue and checking for residual skin cancer until there is no evidence of any remaining skin cancer.
Mohs surgery ensures that the skin cancer has been completely removed while preserving as much normal skin as possible.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is primarily used as a second line therapy in patients who are not good candidates for surgery. For advanced or aggressive squamous cell carcinomas, radiation therapy can also be used in combination with surgery.
During radiation therapy, low-energy x-ray beams are used to destroy skin cancer cells. Treatment of skin cancer requires numerous treatments over a period of time, usually weeks to months.
Thin, superficial, early squamous cell carcinomas can be treated with cryotherapy. Liquid nitrogen is applied to the squamous cell carcinoma which freezes and destroys the skin cancer cells.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT):
Thin, superficial, early squamous cell carcinomas can also be treated with photodynamic therapy. During the procedure, a light sensitizing topical agent is applied to the affected areas. Following a period of time for absorption, the treated area is then exposed to a light or laser, generating a reaction which destroys the skin cancer cells.
Topical Therapies:
5-fluorouracil (5-FU, Efudex, Carac, Fluoroplex, Tolak) and imiquimod (Aldara, Zyclara) are topical preparations which can be applied directly to the skin to treat superficial, thin squamous cell carcinomas.
5-fluorouracil is a chemotherapy cream that selectively targets and destroys the actively dividing cells of pre-cancers and skin cancers. Imiquimod activates the immune system to destroy the skin cancer cells.
Treating your skin cancer with a topical preparation requires diligent use of the cream on the affected area for the prescribed amount of time. Frequently, it requires applying the medication once or twice daily for weeks. If selected as your method of treatment for your squamous cell carcinoma, your dermatologist will provide detailed instructions on how often and how long to use the topical.
During treatment, expect the site to become red, scaly, and inflamed as the medication eradicates the skin cancer cells.


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8.5 We reserve the right to monitor and at Our option to remove or amend for any reason any Content Posted by You.
9. Personal Data
Personal Content collected from You is subject to Our Privacy Policy.
10. Functioning of the Services
10.1 The Services are provided in their current form and We do not guarantee or warrant that the Services, or any element of the Services will meet Your requirements, purpose and/or expectations.
10.2 We do not guarantee or warrant that any of the Content provided in or via the Services is accurate or reliable. You rely on it at Your own risk.
10.3 Due to the nature of the internet, We do not provide any warranty or guarantee in respect of the results, availability, and/or uninterrupted use of the Services but We will use Our reasonable endeavours to rectify serious faults as soon as reasonably practicable.
10.4 We reserve the right to make changes to the Services provided that they do not have a material adverse effect on the quality of the Services.
10.5 We reserve the right to suspend the Services without notice for repair, maintenance or other technical reasons.
10.6 You are responsible for making all arrangement necessary for You to have access to the Website including but not limited to access to the internet and ensuring that all software and hardware used by You to access the Services remains compatible with the Website.
11. Events
11.1 We reserve the right at Our sole and absolute discretion and for whatever reason to:
11.1.1 accept or reject Your application for registration to an Event; and/or
11.1.2 refuse Your attendance at any Event;
11.1.3 eject You from an Event.
11.2 On purchase of a ticket to an Event through the Website, You will receive an e-mail from Us acknowledging that we have received Your payment and your place on the Event.
11.3 We shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that Events are conducted on the date specified on Our Website, but We shall not be liable for any losses, liabilities, costs or expenses incurred by You should We change the date and/or time of the Event.
11.4 We reserve the right to invite media to attend Events.
11.5 We cannot verify the personal details of those participating in an Event. It is up to You to verify personal information to Your own satisfaction. Please approach any contact with participants at one of Our Events with the same caution You would undertake when meeting other people You do not know.
11.6 When booking an Event, You are required to supply a daytime telephone number or mobile phone number. If We are forced to cancel an Event due to circumstances beyond Our control, We will NOT take any responsibility for Members who arrive at the Event, and have supplied incorrect contact details.
11.7 Cancellation by You - You are asked to let us know as soon as possible if you are unable to attend an Event that you have booked. If You decide to cancel Your booking, refunds will be provided in accordance with this clause 11.7:
11.7.1 Events that include accommodation: for Events that include accommodation, partial refunds can be made if you e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com a minimum of 70 days (10 weeks) before the Event is due to take place. The refund will be made less a £100 administration charge or 25 percent of the Price, whichever is greater. We cannot refund you if you notify us less than 70 full days before the Event is due to take place;
11.7.2 Events that do not include accommodation:
22.214.171.124 More than 28 days' notice: provided You let Us know a minimum of 28 full days before the day of the Event, You will be refunded 75 percent of the Price;
126.96.36.199 Between 14 and 28 days' notice: if You let Us know between 14 and 28 full days before the day of the Event, You will be refunded 50 percent of the Price;
18.104.22.168 Less than 14 days' notice: if You let Us know less than 14 full days before the day of the Event, We will not be able to offer You any refund.
11.8 Cancellation by Us - Cancellation may be necessary in exceptional circumstances and We reserve the right in Our absolute discretion to cancel an Event. If this occurs You will be offered a place on an alternative Event of comparable standard (if available) together with a refund of any price difference or a full and prompt refund of all monies You have paid. However, if cancellation of an Event occurs, We will not pay any compensation, nor be responsible for any costs or expenses incurred by You as a result, and We recommend that You ensure Your insurance policy covers You for such an eventuality.
11.9 Transferring a booking - Our booking transfer policy will depend on the type of Event You were booked on:
11.9.1 Events that include accommodation: if You are unable to attend an Event, in certain circumstances, We may allow, at Our sole discretion, You to transfer Your booking to another person, as long as they are a Member and are of the same sex and age range. However, the arrangements must remain exactly the same and will only be allowed if all suppliers (e.g. travel and accommodation providers) are prepared to accept the transfer. In cases where transfers are allowed, a transfer fee of £25 will be payable, plus any charges that may be levied by suppliers.
11.9.2 Events that do not include accommodation: in cases where a refund is not possible, or where only a partial refund is possible, You may opt instead to send a friend in Your place for no additional charge, as long as they are a Member and are of the same sex and age range.
11.10 Deposits - For certain Events, We may accept a non-refundable deposit to secure a place, with the remaining balance of the Price due by a specified date. Should you not settle the balance of the Price, in full, by the specified date, then your ticket will be re-issued for general sale and the deposit forfeited.
11.11 You shall, prior to attending an Event that includes accommodation and overnight stays, ensure that You have adequate travel insurance in place for the duration of the Event, such insurance to include but not be limited to cover for hospital and repatriation costs in the event of Your death or suffering personal injury.
11.12 By booking an Event, You are registering Your acceptance of the terms and conditions in this Agreement. You represent and warrant that You have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions.
12. Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality
12.1 As between You and Us, All Intellectual Property Rights in connection with the Services shall be owned by Us absolutely.
12.2 You warrant and represent to Us that the Content Posted in Your Profile is Posted by You and that You are the sole author of Your Profile.
12.3 You agree that You will keep confidential and not use, except for purposes contemplated by this Agreement, any and/or all Content relating to the Services which may be disclosed to You or which You may learn, except where such Content is public knowledge or it is required to be disclosed by law.
12.4 You are expressly prohibited from:
12.4.1 reproducing, copying, editing, transmitting, uploading or incorporating into any other materials, any of the Website;
12.4.2 removing, modifying, altering or using any intellectual property in connection with the Services and doing anything which may be seen to take unfair advantage of the reputation and goodwill of the Website or could be considered an infringement of any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned and/or licensed to Us without first obtaining the written permission of the owner of the intellectual property.
12.5 By publishing or displaying any Content on the Website, You automatically grant, and You represent and warrant that You have the right to grant to Us an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide licence to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Content and to grant and authorise sublicenses of such Content.
13. Third Party Websites
13.1 We may link to third party websites. We do not endorse or recommend such websites and You must satisfy Yourself that any goods or services referred to thereon are suitable for Your requirements. These are provided solely as a convenience to You and not as an endorsement by Us of the contents on such third party websites. As We have no control over such external sites and resources, You acknowledge and agree that We are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such external sites or resources.
13.2 You acknowledge and agree that We shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such external sites or resources. If You decide to access linked third party websites, You do so at Your own risk. Any concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its respective site administrator or web master.
13.3 You may link to the Services but You may not include the Services in part or in whole within another external website without Our prior written consent.
14. Limitations on Liability
14.1 You expressly understand and agree that:
14.1.1 Your use of the Service is at Your sole risk. The Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis;
14.1.2 We are not responsible for any Content and assume no responsibility for and make no warranty or representation as to the accuracy, currency, completeness, reliability or usefulness of information distributed through the Services;
14.1.3 We make no warranty (i)that the Services will meet Your requirements, (ii)that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii)about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the material, services, software, text, graphics and links (iv)that the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by You through the Services will meet Your expectations, (v) that any errors in the software will be corrected, and (vi) that the Services may be downloaded outside the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Further, if Your use of the Website or the material results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, the company is not responsible for those costs;
14.1.4 any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Services is done at Your own discretion and risk and that You will be solely responsible for any damage to Your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material;
14.1.5 no advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by You from Us or through or from the Services shall create any warranty not expressly stated in this Agreement;
14.1.6 much of the material on the Website is provided by third parties and We shall not be held responsible for any such third party material;
14.1.7 We cannot guarantee and do not promise any specific results from Your use of the Website;
14.2 We shall have no Liability to You:
14.2.1 if any monies owed by You to Us have not been paid in full by the due date for payment;
14.2.2 to the extent that You are covered by any policy of insurance and You shall ensure that Your insurers waive any and all rights of subrogation they may have against Us;
14.2.3 arising out of Your use of the Services and/or Your reliance on any Content Posted by other Members;
14.2.4 arising out of any Member's and/or unauthorised User's misuse of Content Posted by You using the Services and/or to other Members;
14.2.5 for any:
18.104.22.168 indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses;
220.127.116.11 economic and/or other similar losses (including, without limit, loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings); or
184.108.40.206 damage to or loss of goodwill, reputation, data, use or other intangible losses (even if We have been advised of the possibility of such damages); or
14.2.6 for any delay in performance of this Services and/or any other matters to the extent that such events and/or matters are due to any events outside Our reasonable control including but not limited to acts of God, war, flood, fire, labour disputes, strikes, lock-outs, riots, civil commotion, malicious damage, explosion, terrorism, governmental actions and any other similar events.
14.3 You shall be under a duty to mitigate any loss, damage, costs or expenses that You may suffer.
14.4 You shall give Us a reasonable opportunity to remedy any matter for which We are liable before You incur any costs and/or expenses in remedying the matter Yourself. If You do not do so We shall have no Liability to You.
14.5 You shall produce to Us written evidence of any claims for which it is alleged that We are liable together with written details of how any loss was caused by Us and the steps You have taken to mitigate the loss before We shall have any Liability for the claim by You.
14.6 In the event that You have a claim or right of action against any other User arising from that User's Use of the Website, You agree to pursue such claim or action independently of and without any demands from Us, and You release Us from all claims, Liability and damages arising from or in any way connected to such claim or action.
14.7 In the event that a claim or action is brought against Us arising from Your activities or Use of the Website, including any breach by You of this Agreement or any charges or complaints made by other parties against You, You agree to pay, hold harmless and defend Us in the claim or action. You also agree to cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any claim and allow Us to assume the exclusive defence and control of the matter if We so wish.
14.8 Without prejudice to the foregoing, in no event will Our Liability arising out of or in respect of this Agreement exceed an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Price paid by You in the preceding 12 months, where applicable, or (ii) an amount of two hundred pounds (£200.00).
14.9 Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit Our Liability for death or personal injury due to Our negligence or any Liability which is due to Our fraud or any other Liability which We are not permitted to exclude or limit as a matter of law.
14.10 Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit any of Your statutory rights which may not be excluded or limited due to You acting as a consumer.
14.11 This clause (and any other clause excluding or limiting Our Liability) applies to Our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies as well as to Us.
15. Indemnity
15.1 You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified Us against any and all losses, proceedings, lost profits, damages, awards, expenses, costs (including increased administration costs and legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, actions and any other losses and/or liabilities suffered by Us and arising from and/or relating to:
15.1.1 Your use of any of the Services; or
15.1.2 any Content and/or other material Posted on or via the Services by You; or
15.1.3 any breach of contract, any tortious act and/or omission and/or any breach of statutory duty by You.
16. Termination
16.1 You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason, effective upon:
16.1.1 receipt by Us of Your email notice of termination, sent to the email address detailed in clause 20; or
16.1.2 Your clicking on "Cancel my membership" in the "My Home" section of the Website;
16.2 You may cancel the Automatic Renewal of Your Subscription (at least 48 hours before the renewal date) by clicking the 'Cancel Auto-Renew' link in the 'Manage My Subscription' section of the Website. You will continue to have access to Subscriber only functions until Your Subscription expires.
16.3 The Automatic Renewal of your Subscription will be cancelled by Us without notice if You have not logged in to the Website for 6 months or longer and, in this case, any applicable discount will be lost.
16.4 Right to Cancel: after paying the Price to become a Subscriber, you have the right to cancel your order by giving us written notice within 14 days of placing your order. You can do this by either a) using the cancellation request option here, or b) writing to us using the email or postal address detailed in clause 20. Remember to include details of your Member ID and the email address you gave when you joined the site to help us authenticate your request. If any refund is due under this Right to Cancel, it will be governed by our Refund Policy as set out in clause 16.5 below.
16.5 Refund Policy: if you cancel your Subscription, then we use the following rules to determine the validity and amount of any refund:
16.5.1 For cancellations given within 14 days of your order:
188.8.131.52 if you have not made any use of the Subscriber only functions, we will refund your subscription in full;
188.8.131.52 if you have made use of the Subscriber only functions, the refund entitlement will be the full amount minus a daily usage charge of £2.00 a day, multiplied by the number of days before cancellation.
16.5.2 For cancellations given after 14 days of your order, no refunds are available.
16.5.3 For the purpose of this clause, use of the Subscriber only functions shall include, but not be limited to, activating and/or accessing any Subscriber only functions and communicating with other Members.
16.6 Upon giving You notice by email, We may at any time and without cause, terminate this Agreement with You, deny You access to the Website and delete Your Profile and any other Content You have submitted by Your Use of the Website on provision of reasonable notice. If so We will refund pro rata any fees already paid.
16.7 We may terminate the Agreement with You, deny You access to the Website and delete Your Profile and any other Content You have submitted by Your Use of the Website with immediate effect in the event that:
16.7.1 You fail to make any payment to Us when due;
16.7.2 You breach the terms of this Agreement;
16.7.3 You fail to provide Us within the time limit requested by Us with sufficient Content to enable Us to determine the accuracy and/or validity of any Content Posted by You; and/or
16.7.4 in Our reasonable opinion, any Content Posted by You is damaging or potentially damaging to Our business or Members or Users;
16.7.5 We receive two or more complaints from Members relating to Your use of the Services and for the avoidance of doubt, any prior investigation by Us into the validity of the complaints shall be conducted at our sole discretion but We have no obligation to conduct such investigations, nor provide You with the results of the investigation;
16.7.6 You have been previously, or are at any time during the term of this Agreement, made subject to any of the orders or convicted of any of the offences referred to in clause 2 above.
16.8 If any of the events set out in clause 16.7 above occurs in relation to You then You will not be entitled to any refund of monies paid and You shall not attempt to use the Services or rejoin as a Member. In addition, should We, in our sole discretion and upon further investigation, have any reason to believe that any complaints made in accordance with clause 16.7.5 are of a serious nature (which may include allegations of any offences described at clause 2 above), We reserve the right to submit our findings to the police.
16.9 This Agreement continues for so long as You are a Member. Even after termination of this Agreement, certain clauses will continue to apply including clauses 12, 14 and 15 and other clauses necessary to interpret or enforce this Agreement.
17. Disclaimer
17.1 The Content may include facts, views, opinions, advice and recommendations. These views, opinions, advice and recommendations are not endorsed by Us and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, We shall not be liable on account of the accuracy, defamatory nature, completeness, timeliness or otherwise of the Content provided on the Website.
17.2 We are not responsible for the conduct of Users or Members either online or offline. Please use caution and common sense when using the Website.
17.3 The Website may contain errors and, from time to time, may not be accessible by Users or Members. The Content provided on the Website by Us is intended as information only and does not constitute advice. Therefore, it must not be relied on to assist in making or refraining from making a decision, or to assist in deciding on a course of action.
17.4 We are not responsible for injuries arising out of the use of alcohol or drugs.
18. Law and Jurisdiction
18.1 This Agreement is governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
19. Rights of Third Parties
19.1 All third party rights are excluded and no third parties shall have any right to enforce this Agreement under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.
20. Notices
20.1 All notices given by You to Us must be given to Muddy Matches Limited at firstname.lastname@example.com or Muddy Matches Ltd, Paddock View, Grange Farm, Farndish, Nr Wellingborough, Northants NN29 7HJ. We may give notice to You at the e-mail address You provide to Us when registering for Our Services. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our Website or 24 hours after an e-mail is sent. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.
21. Changed Terms
21.1 We may alter or amend this Agreement by giving reasonable notice. By continuing to use the Services after expiry of the notice period, you will be deemed to have accepted any amendment to this Agreement.
22. General
22.1 Headings above are for guidance and not binding.
22.2 No waiver by Us of any breach of this Agreement shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same provision or any other provision.
22.3 This Agreement contains the entire agreement between You and Us. If any provision of this Agreement is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of this Agreement and the remainder of the affected provision shall be unaffected and shall remain in full force and effect.
22.4 We may assign all or part of Our rights or duties under this Agreement; You may not do so without Our prior written consent.
22.5 Unless otherwise stated in this Agreement all notices in writing shall be sent by email to the most recent email address specified by You on the Services (in Your case) and by email to firstname.lastname@example.com (in Our case).
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