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This is real evil:
Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. Easter celebrations are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.
Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.
Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.
Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith. Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.
Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution. The country has passed the “Regulation of Religious Practice” law, which stipulates a punishment of two to five years’ imprisonment and heavy fines for anyone convicted of urging a Muslim to change his religion.
Syria - The constitution requires the president to be a Muslim and specifies that Islamic jurisprudence is a principal source of legislation. Sharing your Christian faith is discouraged as “posing a threat to the relations among religious groups” and carries a penalty of up to life in prison. A Christian is not allowed to proselytize – ever. Churches who want to hold an extra service must get a government permit. Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.
Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.
Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.
Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain.
Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.
Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and—in the most extreme application—death.
The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/
Increasingly irrelevant, not long to be islamist Britain.
Britain’s University and College Union will next take up the cause of Christian persecution in Muslim countries. Oh wait, they won’t be taking up that cause at all.
Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame: All their attempts to bend thee down, Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown. "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves."
Does anyone sing this anymore?
A few lefty unions do not represent Britain anymore than the ACLU represents America.
I’ll repeat myself from the previous thread.
The usual lefty suspects are calling for boycotts, and yet, and yet ... normal Britons don’t know or care what the inconsequential lefties are screaming about. We’re still going on holiday in Israel and buying evil Zionist fruit. Very nice it is too.
Those fools involved in this evil have not a clue of the eventual earthshaking reciprocity on the UK.
Socialists are maggots who hate anything good or fair and love evil, death and murder.
I think we must distinguish the issue of Britain and Jews on three fronts: Muslims, virulent anti-Semitism, and genteel dislike.
First, the Muslims: there is no doubt the Islamics in Britain hate the Jewish people just as God said they would. And much of the violent pogrpms against Jews in Britain as of 2007 are perpetuated by this group.
Virulent anti-Semitism disguised by anti-Zionism among the ethnic Europeans: I have no doubt that this group is probably not as acute as among the many in Europe. But unfortunately as Britain becomes more “European” in the EU sense, so does that sentiment converging towards their continental couterparts. The UCU and other unions’ actions are probably reflective of this group.
Genteel dislike, or uncomfort of Jewishness: it is largely distinct from the second sentiment, but they do feed from one another at times. No doubt it is very widespread in Britain left and right and I have seen one common refrain among British litatures on the issue of Jews: “Jewish cultural influence runs deep in the United States - everywhere I look at I see kosher, Judaism, passover. Things that I don’t see in other English-speaking countries!”, from Oscar Wide, through to 1920s and 30s (read any biographies of King George VI by British historians and note particularly chapters on his visit to the United States pre-WWII and the descriptions of the United States through contemporary British accounts quoted), even on the internet-era publications like the libertarian free-market website semizdata.net .
In sum, I don’t think the talks of Britain embracing neo-Nazism are really on the mark, but neither the sooth-sayings like Britain has always been friends to Jews that accurate either. I sense a general negative sentiment towards the Jewish people in Britain that is probably reflective of hallmarks of a post-Bible-Christian and post-Jewish-cultural-influenced society.
“not anti-semitism”
SURE it’s not!/s
Ping.