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Saudi Teacher to be Flogged for "Saying the Jews Were Right"
Arutz 7 ^
| Nov 14, '05
| Staff
Posted on 11/14/2005 10:16:31 AM PST by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) A secondary school teacher in Saudi Arabia was charged with "dubious ideology, mocking religion, saying the Jews were right, discussing the Gospel and preventing students from leaving class to wash for prayer," according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Madina.
The teacher, Mohammed Al-Harbi, was sentenced to 40 months in jail and 750 lashes for his "crimes". He was denounced by colleagues and students at his school.
The Saudi authorities and Arab newspapers are presenting it as a case of the teacher "mocking religion" and receiving the appropriate penalty.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
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To: Nachum
Yep, it's The Religion of Peace.
And it'll make things peaceful by shutting up anyone who has a difference in opinion.
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posted on
11/14/2005 3:11:06 PM PST
by
VOA
To: Ashamed Canadian
You guys should ditch the Suads, we have lots of oil and few Jihadists.
We're not going to fall for that cheap War Of 1812 trick again! You might burn our capitol again, paralyzing our federal government...
...well, now that I think about it...hmmm...
To: Nachum
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posted on
11/14/2005 3:37:05 PM PST
by
PsyOp
(Men easily believe what they want to. – Caesar, De Bello Gallico, III, 18.)
To: BalancedView
I remember seeing something very similar in Israel. Really. What part of Israel's free press did you see in Saudi Arabia?
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posted on
11/14/2005 4:00:57 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Poor man. He gets it, what Wahabism is all about, too bad he didn't flee the country first.
To: Ashamed Canadian
Lots of Socialists, but I guess they are better than Jihadists
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posted on
11/14/2005 5:09:47 PM PST
by
MassachusettsGOP
(Massachusetts Republican....A rare breed indeed)
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Comment #68 Removed by Moderator
To: BalancedView
Yes, of course, a nation of 6 million defending itself against 250 million who cry out for its destruction is >exactly< the same as a government which sponsors terrorists to blow up buses, supermarkets and schools.
To: clee1
Don't forget, the 9/11 commission scolded the Administration today for not reaching out more to Saudi.
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posted on
11/14/2005 6:35:08 PM PST
by
Wiseghy
(Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. – Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To: BalancedView
It doesn't contain the picture but the author does validate the practice. No denied that they got a copy of the Torah with their rifle. One can refute the inference that Israel is no different those countries that hand out the Korans.
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posted on
11/14/2005 7:58:26 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Once the Syrian & Iranian terrorist promoting régimes have been dealt with, the Wahhabist oil barons of Arabia must be removed as well.
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posted on
11/14/2005 8:31:37 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: Nachum
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posted on
11/14/2005 11:27:44 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: BalancedView
You equate Israel's giving a copy of the Torah to Jewish soldiers as the moral equivalent of Saudi Arabia's giving 75 lashes to a schhol teacher and you wonder why you stuck out as such a goof?
To: BalancedView
Frankly, I'm finding it hard to tell the two sides apart. Looks like different sides of the same coin to me.
Really? Different side of the same coin are they... How many Israeli suicide bombers have you heard about? How many "Palestinians" have been captured and had their heads cut off and the taping of the same distributed for all to see? How many Israelis have flown planes into skyscrapers? How many Israeli insurgents are performing terrorist in in the voluntarily abandoned territories? How many "Palestinian" buses have been blown up by Israelis? How many "Palestinian" school children have been deliberately targeted by Israelis?
Some high minded existentialist moral equivalence isn't the same thing as being "balanced" even if you are, as I suspect, some sort of anti Semite. In fact your view isn't what anyone that seeks truth would call balanced.
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posted on
11/15/2005 7:28:45 AM PST
by
Durus
("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
To: river rat
Saudi Arabia and the Wahabbi Sect of Sunni Islam, should be our TARGET not our ally.. No, the prime target should be secular countries where Christians are free to practice their religion - like Syria.
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posted on
11/15/2005 9:37:33 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(George Orwell: "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.")
To: traderrob6
>>> 750 lashes????
That was MY first thought. After 750 lashes, is there anything left to throw in jail?? Unless it's lashes with a shoelace, or wet spaghetti...
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posted on
11/15/2005 9:39:33 AM PST
by
HKMk23
(FOR SALE: French Army standard issue infantry rifles. Dropped once. Never fired.)
To: polymuser
"..saying the Jews were right, discussing the Gospel.."
And these people are OUR allies????
This says a lot about misplaced priorities in American foreign policy.
This is the fruit of Wahhabism and petrodollars working together.
How can this blatant persecution for religious beliefs be tolerated by a civilized world???
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posted on
11/15/2005 9:42:02 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: BalancedView
>> Looks like different sides of the same coin to me.
Well, historically speaking, they are.
Arabs descend from Ishmael, Jews desend from Isaac. Ishmael and Isaac are the two sons of Abraham, recognized as a great Patriarch by both Muslims and Jews. Grab your bible and tour through Genesis 12-21 noting the promises God makes to Abraham, the way he goes about trying to fulfill the promise himself, the way it finally does get fulfilled and the fallout of it. Given a best-estimate timeframe of about 1700-1900BC for Abraham Those two boys have been squabbling for almost 4,000 years, now, and it looks like the rest of the world is doomed to get tangled up in this family feud.
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posted on
11/15/2005 9:49:27 AM PST
by
HKMk23
(FOR SALE: French Army standard issue infantry rifles. Dropped once. Never fired.)
To: Nachum
With friends like them,...
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posted on
11/15/2005 9:50:24 AM PST
by
airborne
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
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