[freepatriot32]

the Saudis must have got all their police training in Philadelphia

[Casloy]

I just wonder what the muslim world would say if the US arbitrarily arrested muslims for practicing their faith? Oh, never mind...

[WellsFargo94]

It's just a matter of time before U.S. liberals get their way in this country.

[Timeout]

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.

[ncountylee]

Lots of MSM coverage to follow.......NOT

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ping.

[Dallas59]

Where are the mass protests in Europe?

[Aussie Dasher]

This from our "friends"?

[Red Sea Swimmer]

"a Christian was not even allowed to pray in private,"

How the would enforce this I will never know, when our relationship with God is indeed a personal and direct one, not needing an intermediary.

[LowCountryJoe]

Thomas Jefferson writing to Elbridge Gerry in march of 1801 ~ A coalition of sentiments is not for the interest of the printers. They, like the clergy, live by the zeal they can kindle, and the schisms they can create. It is contest of opinion in politics as well as religion which makes us take great interest in them, and bestow our money liberally on those who furnish food to our appetite. The mild and simple principles of the Christian philosophy would produce too much calm, too much regularity of good, to extract from its disciples a support from a numerous priesthood, were they not to sophisticate it, ramify it, split it into hairs, and twist its texts till they cover the divine morality of its author with mysteries, and require a priesthood to explain them. The Quakers seem to have discovered this. They have no priests, therefore no schisms. They judge of the text by the dictates of common sense and common morality. So the printers can never leave us in a state of perfect rest and union of opinion. They would be no longer useful, and would have to go to the plough.

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.

[clearlight]

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.

[MinuteGal]

Obviously it's still 64 A.D. in Saudi Arabia.

All this country needs is some amphitheaters and lions.

Its fake veneer of "civilization" is only that which is purchased with oil money.

Leni

[Gritty]

...the Saudi royal family is allowing non-Muslims to practice their religion in the privacy of their home... the police and a considerable part of Saudi society do not accept this liberalization, so Christians are arrested

This sounds like what the Liberals ultimately have in mind for Christians in our country.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Pity the ones who aren't already circumcised.

[highlander_UW]

This just proves that muslims are hypocrites. The quran claims there is no compulsion is religion...and yet muslims betray the quran and compel people to renounce their religion. So this just proves that Saudi Arabia doesn't follow the quran.

[ZULU]

How much longer is our craven government going to allow this to go on without speaking out?

[TomasUSMC]

You must be a mistaken, MY President told me Islam is a religion of P E A C E!

Who should I believe?

[Alexander Rubin]

Classic. Just classic. Free the Christians. Let 'em come here or go to Israel, how about?

[television is just wrong]

So what they were freed. All they have to do is re-find their religion.