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40 Pakistani Christians held in S. Arabia
The Dawn (Pakistan) ^
| 24 April 2005
| The Dawn
Posted on 04/23/2005 9:00:32 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
RIYADH, April 23: Saudi Arabia has detained 40 Pakistani Christians for holding prayers at a house in the kingdom, where practicising any religion other than Islam is illegal, newspapers said on Saturday.
A group of men, women and children were attending the service in the capital Riyadh when police raided the house, Al Jazirah newspaper said. It said authorities also found Christian tapes and books.
Another Saudi daily, Al Yaum, said the raid took place on Friday while a Pakistani preacher was delivering a sermon. It was not clear what measures might be taken against the group.
Saudi authorities were not immediately available to comment.
There are around six million foreigners in the kingdom, which has a population of 23 million, including many Christians from Europe, North America, Asia and other Arab states.
In a rare official rebuke of a close ally last year, Washington accused Saudi Arabia of severe violations of religious freedom.
Following the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, which were carried out by mainly Saudis, the Gulf Arab state's religious establishment came under sharp criticism by the West for fostering militancy and intolerance of other religions.-Reuters
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianarrest; christianity; christophobia; freedomofreligion; india; islam; jihad; pakistan; pakistanichristians; saudiarabia
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Saudi Arabia is a five-decade-old US ally and recepient of American weaponry like the F-16s, for years. They are a threat to Israel and India, by funding terror through oil money in both these countries.
Christian and Hindu expats from the Subcontinent who work in Saudi Arabia are persecuted on a regular basis there.
To: CarrotAndStick
I fully support nuking Mecca, or at least throwing that damn rock in the middle of the ocean and make them jackasses chase after it.
To: CarrotAndStick
Not only this, but a few years ago the Saudis demanded that church services in the US consulate in Jiddah be stopped.
Notwithstanding that the US consulate is, by diplomatic agreement, soveriegn US soil, the State Department agreed,
and stopped the services. (Those wishing to worship then had to attend services at the British consulate.)
That was dhimminitude first class.
What other ally do we have that has no free speech, no freedom of religion, no equal rights for women, no guarantee of an attorney if you are arrested, permits slavery, torture, beheading, honor killings, and child-sex?
To: CarrotAndStick
The US is going to be looking at a knife in it's back if they keep Saudis as allys.
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posted on
04/23/2005 9:28:26 PM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Finally an answer for the prisoner problem at Abu Ghraib: Don't take any.)
To: bahblahbah
I hope nobody with a dialup looks at this thread.
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posted on
04/23/2005 9:59:49 PM PDT
by
visualops
(Habemus Papam!)
To: CarrotAndStick
Saudi Arabia has detained 40 Pakistani Christians for holding prayers at a house in the kingdom, where practicising any religion other than Islam is illegal Isn't there something in the UN charter about countries having to allow religous freedom? Where is Kofi's response? Oh, thats right. He only mouths off when its the USA that he finds irksome or if he is about to be indicted.
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posted on
04/23/2005 10:04:02 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Why is it that the wackiest people get to define reality?)
To: bahblahbah
I fully support nuking Mecca, or at least throwing that damn rock in the middle of the ocean and make them jackasses chase after it.
In other words, you are no conservative. We conservatives are big on justice and judging people as individuals, and leave the group-gripes and identity politics to liberals.
To: bahblahbah
Islam is a mental disorder masquerading as a religion that has to be stomped out before anyone on this planet can breathe a sigh of relief. Everywhere this nutsaladery takes hold the murder begins. If we don't wake up soon, the blood bath will be historic. The Crusades will look like a walk through the park.
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posted on
04/23/2005 10:30:56 PM PDT
by
Desron13
To: Cultural Jihad
"In other words, you are no conservative. We conservatives are big on justice and judging people as individuals, and leave the group-gripes and identity politics to liberals."This so called religion is a scourge on the planet. The vast majority of blood shed currently going on around the planet involves these idiots not playing well with anyone else. How many more people need to be slaughtered before you realize that this is not a religion? It's a freaking mental disorder!
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posted on
04/23/2005 10:36:36 PM PDT
by
Desron13
To: Desron13
Islam is a mental disorder masquerading as a religion that has to be stomped out before anyone on this planet can breathe a sigh of relief.
No, radical Islam is. Do try to be supportive of our efforts at national self-defense as led by President Bush. After all, no one ever plays "Hail to the Chief" when you walk into a room, and probably for a lot of good reasons.
To: Cultural Jihad
"No, radical Islam is. Do try to be supportive of our efforts at national self-defense as led by President Bush. After all, no one ever plays "Hail to the Chief" when you walk into a room, and probably for a lot of good reasons." Since 9/11, I have taken the trouble of reading the Koran in it's entirety. Trust me or don't trust me when I say that Islam is a misogynistic death cult perpetrated by a megalomaniacal sociopath. Please read it for yourself and get back to me.
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posted on
04/23/2005 10:55:54 PM PDT
by
Desron13
To: Cultural Jihad
"Do try to be supportive of our efforts at national self-defense as led by President Bush." By the way... Huh! I do most certainly support President Bush in his war on terror. I have numerous differences with him, but killing terrorists is not one of them.
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posted on
04/23/2005 11:35:25 PM PDT
by
Desron13
To: CarrotAndStick
This is GW's peaceful religion!
To: bahblahbah
How does raising one's buttocks to Heaven please God?
To: Cultural Jihad
If the enemy is radical Islam, and if there are moderate Muslims, why have no fatwas been issued against ibn Laden and his "associates"?
To: sheik yerbouty
To: CondorFlight
What is really bizarre is the fact that there is a Muslim country where the rights of the Christian and Jewish minorities to practice their religion are protected by law - Iran.
To: bahblahbah
Our good 'friends', the Wahhabist cult 'Royal' Saudi family.
That giant 'black stone' looks more like chunks of granite cemented together with a huge bedsheet draped over it.
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posted on
04/24/2005 4:06:51 AM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: toadthesecond
True. I should rephrase. Has any Islamic country had a Muslim cleric who issued a fatwa against bin Laden?
To: M. Espinola
What a nice object to do some grafitti...
Send some of New Yorks most talented.
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posted on
04/24/2005 11:21:50 PM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Finally an answer for the prisoner problem at Abu Ghraib: Don't take any.)
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