NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams

Mr. WALID PHARES, PhD (NBC News Middle East Expert): This is not going to catch fire with people who are not fundamentalist but with people who are fundamentalists, and they are, by the tens of thousands.

SANDERS: An organization that monitors the Middle East recorded a Saudi professor telling TV viewers the tsunami was Allah’s retribution, even against Muslims, `for fornication and homosexuality.’ At the same time, there’s now a growing debate in the Arab world whether oil-rich nations have done enough to help fellow Muslims. Contributions from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar have been relatively small.