Posted on 05/30/2005 1:09:16 PM PDT by nmh
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (UPI) -- A Saudi newspaper said Sunday authorities were investigating complaints posters of a crucified Christ were being distributed to school children.
The semi-official daily al-Watan said Saudis in the western al-Taif region have complained expatriates from an unidentified southeast Asian country were "selling stickers and posters of Christ on the cross to elementary school children."
Unidentified sources told the paper the stickers and posters were being sold by Asian street peddlers at traffic lights and in front of schools.
The sources complained selling these products was contrary to Islamic beliefs Jesus himself was not crucified, but rather someone else who resembled him.
The paper said because young children were the target market for the stickers, "adults have become suspicious."
It added parents have called on authorities to take action against street peddlers to "prevent sedition."
I suspect they're pretty insecure about their own "belief" to be THIS threatened. What a bunch of losers they are!
Truth will out, always.
The Gospel is sedition in Saudi Arabia.
Anyone else for outlawing islam in the United States of America?
I'm a little surprised they didn't stone the children for purchasing the stickers.
They're just acting like US liberals, that's all.
The reaction by the ACLU to such posters being so distributed in our own country would be similar. ...or perhaps even more heated.
How do they know the stickers and posters aren't portraying the guy who looked like Jesus being crucified?
It should have been outlawed long ago and not because of the religious aspects, but rather the political aspects of it.
Tit-for-tat would be the right thing to do. As long as preaching the gospel is a crime punishable by imprisonment or death is the law of the land in muslim countries, islam should be outlawed here as well.
Well, we all know how accurate Islamic history is, don't we?
Follow the money. The US will tolerate just about anything in how saudi runs its internal affairs as long as we don't lose the House of Saud. Contrary to how some people feel, I believe a change of government in SA could only be for the MUCH worse for US interests.
Also, while beheading 'sorcerors' is one thing, wouldn't you like to see a murder beheaded here once in a while?
As Thomas doubted that Christ was arisen he was invited to place his hand in the wound in Christs side and to examine the wounds in his feet and hands. If it was some other guy he had some righteous holes in him.
As for the Koran and Muhammed I believe: Yes I believe the Prophet was a homosexual and a pedophile, and a murderous sack of crap.
Yes--Al Jazerra reports that there were actually 2 Jewish teachers in Jerusalem in the year 33 A.D. walking around who healed the sick, raised Lazarus from the dead, and gave the Sermon on the Mount.
Imagine that!
Hey, look...I know why I know it was actually Jesus...but why did the Muslims think it was a portrayal of Jesus and not the fictitious other guy?
I mean, he supposedly looked like him, right? How would they know?
Given the chance, I wouldn't choose sedition. I would propose making it a crime equal to 'conspiracy to commit murder' for anyone to practice islam here.
It is after all, a death cult.
This reminds me of the undergraduate who wrote on an English exam that Shakespeare didn't write the plays attributed to him. They were, he asserted, written by someone else named Shakespeare
"...contrary to Islamic beliefs Jesus himself was not crucified, but rather someone else who resembled him."
Any Koran scholars here? Enquiring minds want to know: what did the Prophet say the real Christ gave the stunt double?
"Anyone else for outlawing islam in the United States of America?"
Count me in and flush that koran down the toilet, where it belongs!
If they find the stickers do you suppose they will flush them down the toilet? Will American Christians riot and kill Muslims if they do?
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