Yep, that's him. I'd recognize that pervert anywhere.
Posted on 03/20/2008 3:59:14 PM PDT by Bokababe
Riyadh, 20 March (AKI) - No churches should be permitted in Saudi Arabia, unless Pope Benedict XVI recognised the prophet Mohammed, according to a Middle East expert.
While Saudi mediators are working with the Vatican on negotiations to allow places of religious worship, some experts believe it will not occur without this recognition.
Anwar Ashiqi, president of the Saudi centre for Middle East strategic studies, endorsed this view in an interview on the site of Arab satellite TV network, al-Arabiya on Thursday.
"I haven taken part in several meetings related to Islamic-Christian dialogue and there have been negotiations on this issue," he said.
"It would be possible to launch official negotiations to construct a church in Saudi Arabia only after the Pope and all the Christian churches recognise the prophet Mohammed."
"If they don't recognise him as a prophet, how can we have a church in the Saudi kingdom?"
Ashiqi's comments came after a declaration launched by the papal nuncio of the Persian Gulf, the archbishop Mounged El-Hachem, at the opening of the first Catholic church in Qatar last week.
The prelate had announced the launch of "treaties to construct a church in Saudi Arabia where it is banned to practise whatever religion they want outside Islam".
El-Hachem estimated three to four million Christians in the Saudi kingdom who want to have a church.
A member of Saudi Arabia's Consultative Council, Abdelaziz al-Thinani, rejected the prelate's claims saying that there were no Christians among the Saudis who were all Muslims.
"Those few Christians do not reside in the country permanently, they come and go," he said.
He denied there were four million Christians in the kingdom and said the issue of human rights should not be used to call for the construction of a Christian church.
Most of Saudi Arabia's Christians are foreign workers. There are 8.2 million foreign workers in a country of 25.6 million people according to a report by the Saudi Labour Ministry.
Maybe JPII might have but Benedict was first a cojones to the wall scholar who will not give that abomination any false recognition.
In that case, no mosques in the West then !
AMEN! Shut them all down now.....
Yep, that's him. I'd recognize that pervert anywhere.
Fugitabotit
No churches should be permitted in Saudi Arabia, unless Pope Benedict XVI recognised the prophet Mohammed, according to a Middle East expert.
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All your churches are belong to us ??????????
LOL
That was my first thought...
You beat me to it! :-)
Pope: I “recognize” Mohammed as a violent pedophile. How’s that?
We have some great allies, don’t we?
I’m sure Protestant churches trying to build in Saudi are rather puzzled at this demand of a leader that isn’t part of their church.
but we already do... as a moonrock worshiping pedophile!!!
This statement is deliberately obtuse. The Saudis will never allow churches in the kingdom this side of forever.
Behind only N Korea, Saudi Arabia repeatedly holds an unchanged ranking of SECOND on the annual Open Doors World Watch List of religious persecutors. SA is an absolute monarchy and has been since its modern inception. It boasts the birth of Islam and is home to its two holiest cities of Mecca and Medina, into which non-Muslims are forbidden to enter. Do these facts lend themselves to the notion that the Saudis will seriously entertain the building of churches?
All Saudi citizens must be Muslims. With the Koran as its declared constitution, the kingdom is ruled by strict shari'a law, enforced among the populace by bands of religious police (Mutaween) who total about 3500 and patrol the streets in search of infractions. This enforcement includes public flogging and arrest for dietary, religious, social, dress code and other violations. As a result, Saudi Arabia is utterly devoid of all personal freedoms.
All other faiths are illegal. There are no churches, no synagogues, no non-Islamic religious material, and conversion from Islam is punishable by death. Proselytizers face jail, expulsion or execution. Despite Saudi claims that private non-Islamic religious observation is allowed, foreign nationals continue to complain of harassment by the Mutaween.
The Mutaween came under international criticism a few years ago when they refused to allow teen girls without proper dress to flee a burning school.
This is the country we literally hold hands with, bend over backwards to accommodate, and court perpetually as our ally in the middle east.
“All your pews are belong to us”
I see the Archbishop of Canterbury’s embrace of sharia law was not good enough...
C.W.
Well, the lesbians in the United Methodist Church want to change the liturgy so they can stop people from saying “God the Father.” What’s the dif?
How's this -
Allah was in the Garden of Eden and was known as"The Bringer of Light" aka "Lucifer."
He inticed the children of God to sin resulting in the fall of man.
After being cast down from Heaven he continues to instigate troubles and unrest.
And Mohammad was his prophet.
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