Posted on 05/24/2007 6:50:18 PM PDT by SJackson
Saudis Arrest Christian for Entering Mecca
By Michael Freund The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708675932&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims consider to be holy, is off-limits to non-Muslims. Nirosh Kamanda, a Sri Lankan Christian, was detained by the Saudi Expatriates Monitoring Committee last week after he started to sell goods outside Mecca's Great Mosque.
After running his fingerprints through a new security system, Saudi police discovered that he was a Christian who had arrived in the country six months earlier to take a job as a truck driver in the city of Dammam. Kamanda had subsequently left his place of work and moved to Mecca.
"The Grand Mosque and the holy city are forbidden to non-Muslims," Col. Suhail Matrafi, head of the department of Expatriates Affairs in Mecca, told the Saudi daily Arab News. "The new fingerprints system is very helpful and will help us a lot to discover the identity of a lot of criminals," he said.
Similar restrictions apply to the Saudi city of Medina. In a section entitled, "Traveler's Information," the Web site of the Saudi Embassy in Washington states that, "Mecca and Medina hold special religious significance and only persons of the Islamic faith are allowed entry."
Highway signs at the entrance to Mecca also direct non-Muslims away from the city's environs.
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Between the fingerprint comment and the warning signs there's plenty of potential humor here. Except it's a dead serious problem and not at all funny.
He is so dead.
Is this what they died for?
What would happen if Catholics did the same thing Rome or Jews did it in Jerusalem?
Why do I think that if we made Mecca a smoking hole that the world wouldn’t be any angrier at us than they are now??
WTH would Catholics make Rome off limits to none Muslims? [snicker]
As to Mecca & Medina, not allowing non-Muslims prevents dilution of the target’s value.
Why don’t we make the rest of the world off limits to Muslims? Sound like a plan?
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Well, it’s wrong to ignore someone’s religous rules and go into a place where nobody is supposed to go.
All that said, it does point out the difference between Christianity and Islam, doesn’t it? Muslims say, “Christians not allowed”. Jesus says, “Whosever will, come unto Me.”
Why not make the U.S. of limits to Muslims?
Take a good look! This is our enemy! And they do not compromise!
Even when they use their mosques as ammo dumps and military compounds??
Whatever else might be said about this (and there is much to say), at least they enforce their laws. That’s more than I can say for whats going on here.
Sorry. Should have qualified that statement.
I don't think you've thought this through.
The SCOTUS has ruled that all sorts of public expressions of religion must be supressed so as not to infringe on the RIGHTS of people unsympathetic to them. Are these RIGHTS real RIGHTS belong to all people? Or merely a tyrannical whim of the SCOTUS ?
No problem.
I’m still learning myself.
SCOTUS does not respect the US Constitution or US citizens
as it eagerly genuflects to any foreign Court or Caliphate.
Hmmmmmmmm, I think you have something there.
I’d vote for that!
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