So did Bush.
Posted on 09/15/2014 5:28:34 PM PDT by xzins
The situation for Christians in the Middle East continues to get worse, but this time, it isn’t at the hands of a terrorist group or band of rebels. It’s from one of our supposed allies in the region: Saudi Arabia. As Fox News reports, this past Friday (September 12th), agents from the country’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice rounded up 28 Christians at the home of an Indian national in the city of Khafji, and several Bibles were confiscated as well.. Their condition and whereabouts are currently unknown. As Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute told Fox News:
“Saudi Arabia is continuing the religious cleansing that has always been its official policy…It is the only nation state in the world with the official policy of banning all churches. This is enforced even though there are over 2 million Christian foreign workers in that country. Those victimized are typically poor, from Asian and African countries with weak governments.”
More information on the arrests comes later in the article:
An article posted on the Arabic-language news website Akhbar 24 said the arrests came after the Kingdom’s religious police got a tip about a home-based church. The report further noted that “distorted writings of the Bible were found and musical instruments, noting their referral to the jurisdictional institutions.”
The Saudi media reported different compositions of the arrested Christians. Some reports said the Christians were men and women, while the Saudi Gazette wrote that children, as well as men and women, were detained. It was unclear if a court date has been set in the notoriously opaque fundamentalist court system.
Thus far, the only person speaking out for them in Washington is Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia, who has long been known for his human rights advocacy. He is doing what he can to get our ambassador to the country to speak up on their behalf.
Secretary of State John Kerry is heading there as well, but will he talk to the Saudis about them? If recent events are any indicator, I wouldn’t get my hopes up to much. At the very least, we should be asking why a country that had gone through such pains to establish itself as voice of moderation on interfaith dialogue, going as far as to sponsoring center dedicated to it in Vienna, still oppressing Christians in such a way. As Nina Shea correctly notes, there is no other country in the world that officially bans all churches. We shouldn’t let Saudi Arabia get away with this, but will our leadership’s moral rudderlessness and economic ties to the country prevent them from taking any significant action on the issue?
No.
The Succinct Award 2014 Goes to freedumb2003!
Aren’t you the person who was defending Mohammed as having good reason to be anti-Christian, and suggesting that he actually got his visions from God?
Yep. I’ve known many people who have lived there and somehow they managed to survive without losing their heads. Just follow their rules and laws or don’t go there.
They see the writing on the wall.. And they ain’t on it. ;-)
How do you convert a snake to being something useful?
Skin, roast and devour them.
Sorry, I misspelled “Houston.” What I meant was, what in the World does Houston, Texas have to do with Saudi Arabia?
I assumed oil, but I could be wrong.
Barry would never speak against his Sunni Paymasters...
OK, I’m game. What is ‘KSA” and what does Huston have to do with this?
KSA = Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
[ Proper response - nuke Mecca and Medina. What happens to their “religion” then? ]
Should have been Step #2 after step #1 after 9/11
Step #1 should have been demand that Saudia Arabia Surrender unconditionally...
[ Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ]
Apparently they don’t consider screwing young boys and animals as a “vice”....
Perhaps the most important vice to focus on here... is the one they have their heads in....?
Only when it’s been coordinated with them ahead of time and gained approval for strategic reasons
Houston, Texas is the oil capital of the world. Saudi’s for all their money do more business in this town than Wall Street.
First of all, I did not know there were any Christians in Saudi Arabia, but it is a Muzzie country. What does anyone expect from them? They simply do what Muzzies do, persecute and kill people. I wonder why the government seems to favor them?
Good question.
And when the price of gasoline goes to $25.00 per gallon, will you remember your words?
By the way, we had a golf course where we lived. It was all sand and we carried a square-foot piece of green astro-truf to hit off of each shot. A small amount of oil was put on the sand to keep it from blowing away.
The "green" was a MUCH darker sand, with a lot more petroleum on it to keep it down. We had to KNOCK THE TAR our of the ball to make the putt.
After each foursome finished a Pakistani guy would come off his spot in the shade of a small roof with a HUGE broom and "sweep" the greens to make them smooth.
My husband was an avid golfer. His normal handicap was 8-10 or so. But over there, on camp, with the FREE little driving range and nine-hole golf course, he got down to SCRATCH golf. Wow.
Our company would hold tournaments all the time: women's, men's handicap and men's scratch. At the quarterly golf club dinners awards were given out: CRYSTAL.
I LOVED it as I watched the bright RED crystal boxes stack up in front of me, THANKS to my "scratch" golfer hubby.
We are stuck with the Saudis because WE are their BIGGEST CUSTOMER. When their petroleum and natural gas run out...then we will use our own resources.
We play it right: USE UP OTHERS' RESOURCES FIRST, then use our own.
You are NUTS.
So did Bush.
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