Muhammad said: "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim." - Sahih Muslim 19.4366.
Of course, it would be bad for business for the Saudis to say they're giving them the boot for daring to gather in prayer and worship, so they have invoked another rule, against the mingling of unrelated men and women. Not that they look any less ridiculous for it.
Once again, just for fun, someone should tell authorities that a man of Jewish background has slipped into the country and, according to local reports, is in the habit of joining these gatherings "wherever two or three" come together. It could make for a good all-points bulletin, not to mention the subsequent headline: "Saudis desperate to find Jesus."
An update on this story. "Ethiopian Christians to be deported from Saudi Arabia," from BBC News, January 31:
Some 35 Ethiopian Christians face deportation from Saudi Arabia for "illicit mingling", the global rights body Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.Police arrested the group - including 29 women - after raiding a prayer meeting in the second city of Jeddah.
The women were subjected to strip searches and the men beaten and called "unbelievers", according to HRW.
In 2006, the Saudi government promised to stop interfering with private worship by non-Muslims.
The group was arrested in a private home as they gathered to pray during the run-up to Christmas, celebrated by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians on 7 January.
HRW spoke to a man and two women by telephone from the prisons where they are being held.
They say they have been charged with mixing with unmarried persons of the opposite sex - even though HRW says Saudi Arabia has no law defining "illicit mingling".
Mixing of the sexes is not allowed in public - but normally permitted in private unless for "the purpose of corruption", according to the religious police.
The ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom bans the practice of any religion except Islam - but in recent years pledged to leave people of other faiths alone if they worshipped in private homes....
Talk is cheap, and "war is deceit."
Our Obama will not open his mouth because he was presented with a solid gold necklace which hung upto his naval by the Saudi king,when he visited Saudi Arabia. Probably the king also presented him a golden ZIP for his mouth too -who knows!
Would that we, in our more reasonable nature, saw fit to expel these non-assemalating dawahists from our own lands! Instead, in the interest foolish multi-culturalism, our State Department artificially inflates visa and immigration quotas for these civilization destroying Saudis. To our peril: we ourselves are our own worst enemies!
One of your best quips, Marisol. A favorite.
Saudi Arabia ... closed society, except for the numerous subhuman servant groups ... definitely in need of immigration reform
Saudi Arabia ... closed society, except for the numerous subhuman servant groups ... definitely in need of immigration reform
Saudi Arabia like every Muslim nation are school by the Koran, Hadith, and Sira. These books have not changed so much as one word in the past 1400 years.
The instructions in these books effect every Muslim the same way. This change isn't simply verbal non-sense. It is as serious as any commandment has ever been. The instructions are the only thing good Muslims ever think about. Every minute, every second, and every day are exactly the same. Submission is the goal, motivation, and commitment for every Muslim.
The ideology of Islam is unlike any civil thought process or law. You see most people treat others, like they would like to be treated. We except other humans as being people with a live and meaning worth the same as our own. We call this "the Golden Rule".
Islam doesn't think that way at all. In Islam live has no value at all for the kaffir (non-Muslim). This is no accident it is the instructions of Allah through words that only Muhammad could hear. Which every Muslim must submit to or be killed as a kaffir within the on going jihad of Islam.
And so, it makes very little difference what we do, say or think Islams instructions are sted fast in the minds of every Muslim.
So appeasment by kaffirs toward Islam is worthless. Because all kaffirs are seen (in Islams eye) as not even human but sent to earth by the devil and thereby the enemy no matter what.