Posted on 09/15/2014 9:08:29 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Islamist police in Saudi Arabia have stormed a Christian prayer meeting and arrested its entire congregation, including women and children, and confiscated their bibles, it has been reported.
The raid was the latest incident of a swingeing crackdown on religious minorities in Saudi Arabia by the country's hard-line Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
The 28 Christians were said to be worshipping at the home of an Indian national in the eastern city of Khafji, when the police entered the building and took them into custody. They have not been seen or heard from since, raising concerns among human rights groups as to their whereabouts.
Nina Shea, director of the Washington-based Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, told FoxNews.com: 'Saudi Arabia is continuing the religious cleansing that has always been its official policy.
'It is the only nation state in the world with the official policy of banning all churches.
'This is enforced even though there are over two million Christian foreign workers in that country. Those victimized are typically poor, from Asian and African countries with weak governments.'
Activists are now calling on the U.S. to use its considerable influence in the region to help secure the release of the incarcerated Christians.
A spokesperson for the Saudi government claimed to have no knowledge of the arrests, according to Fox News.
But the English-language newspaper, The Saudi Gazette, as well as several Saudi Arabic-language news outlets, have reported on the arrests.
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“whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Matthew 18:6
The US fought for Khafji; we should have the right to demand tolerance and freedom of religion there.
I recently heard Kerry justify himself, saying he was a "Catholic." Sure.
We should have converted them to Christianity, executed their leaders, and taken rights to their oil for 1,000 years.
Sadly, we did none of those. But we should have. Every conquering nation in history did those things. But our State Department is controlled by Communists. And that is no exaggeration.
Your thought makes sense and if he refuses to leave office he will have his personal SA available to take to the streets.
ISIS/ISIL certainly are responsible for their share of barbaric beheadings, but the Saudis are the real champs. Listening to Beck this morning put me in mind of reading the Saudi English-language dailies back in the day. Each Friday the Saudi Interior Ministry published what we whimsically called “The Decap Recap.” They had a list of all the beheadees, and they were usually foreigners. They were executed usually for murder of a Saudi citizen.
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