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Posted on 06/26/2005 1:10:39 AM PDT by freepatriot32
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, JUNE 9, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Seven Christians, arrested for their faith, were released on condition that they renounce religious practice, which they carried out privately in their homes.
Of the seven released Wednesday, six were part of a group of Protestants who were arrested May 28 in a raid by the muttawa, or religious police, in Riyadh.
The seventh Christian released is Indian evangelical Samkutty Varghese, who was jailed last March. Police used his address book to track down the other Christians.
Two other Christians are still being held for "further investigation," authorities said.
According to AsiaNews sources close to Indian citizen Vijay Kumar, 45, of Tamil Nadu, one of the freed prisoners, their release took place after having signed a document in which they renounced the prayer sessions and religious practices they had been carrying in their homes.
In Saudi Arabia, only Islam is allowed public expression.
Up to a few years ago, "a Christian was not even allowed to pray in private," said Father Bernardo Cervellera, director of AsiaNews.
He added that now, because of international pressure, the Saudi royal family is allowing non-Muslims to practice their religion in the privacy of their home.
"Unfortunately, however," the priest explained, "the police and a considerable part of Saudi society do not accept this liberalization, so Christians are arrested."
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I just wonder what the muslim world would say if the US arbitrarily arrested muslims for practicing their faith? Oh, never mind...
USA has been very very foolish to allow any Muslims into the USA. The history of Muslims is to trample on the rights of every human being who does not believe the foolishness that they do.
It's just a matter of time before U.S. liberals get their way in this country.
Well, they didn't flush their bibles down the toilet. And it's unlikely they were put in air conditioned cells, so we can assume they weren't tortured with temp variations.
Nothing for Durbin to get exercised about. They may have been jailed simply for being Christians, but Durbin and the MediaCrats know all about those "rabid" right wing Christian zealots and how annoying they can be.
Lots of MSM coverage to follow.......NOT
Ping.
Yes! The PC movement applies to us and us alone. It judges us! Don't aim it the Muslim world, it doesn't work, AND it's not PC of you to try that.
The PC crowd denegrates our Judeo-Christian beliefs and hails those criminal beliefs of other societies as especially worthy.
Oh crap, like you said, never mind.....
Where are the mass protests in Europe?
Maybe they should make the boys at gitmo renounce their religion. Dick Durbin could then say "see I told you they were nazis there"
This from our "friends"?
Correction...
"they" not "the"
Thomas Jefferson writing to Rev. Charles Clay in January of 1815 ~ I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own. To under take to bring them all right, would be like undertaking, single-handed, to fell the forests of America. …I abuse the priests, indeed, who have so much abused the pure and holy doctrines of their Master, and who have laid me under no obligations of reticence as to the tricks of their trade. The genuine system of Jesus, and the artificial structures they have erected, to make them the instruments of wealth, power, and preeminence to themselves, are as distinct things in my view as light and darkness; and while I have classed them with soothsayers and necromancers, I place Him among the greatest reformers of morals, and scourges of priest-craft that have ever existed. They felt Him as such, and never rested until they had silenced Him by death.
Government, as well as religion, has furnished its schisms, its persecutions, and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. It has its hierarchy of emperors, kings, princes, and nobles, as that has of popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and priests. In short, cannibals are not to be found in the wilds of America only, but are reveling on the blood of every living people.
I'm not normally one to advocate government interference with religion, but the U.S. Govt. should have this article etched in stone and placed at the entrance of every Saudi Arabian funded Mosque in our country.
All this country needs is some amphitheaters and lions.
Its fake veneer of "civilization" is only that which is purchased with oil money.
Leni
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