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June 10, 2004

Catholic leader asks Saudi King to release a Christian prisoner

Why is the major media ignoring the torture of Brian O'Connor? He was arrested on questionable drug-related charges (as happens more often than it should to non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia) by the muttawa, Saudi Arabia's religious police, held in a mosque for a time, and tortured. From AsiaNews, with thanks to Nicolei:

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – “We request His Majesty to take appropriate steps to see that the religious police stop the torture, and that Brian is given a fair trial and released”. John Dayal, a Catholic activist, asks King Fahad bin Abdulaziz al Said to release the Indian citizen. Dayal has written a letter to the king through the Saudi ambassador in India.

John Dayal is the vice-president of the All India Catholic Union, which represents 16 million of Indian Catholics. In his letter to king Fahad, he recalls the historic and warm relationship between India and the Saudi Kingdom. “Many Indians, among them Catholics, are working in Saudi Arabia, peacefully”. Dayal affirms that he “received with a sense of deep injury and revulsion” the news that O'Connor was arrested by the Saudi police. He concludes his letter by saying that “freedom of Faith is integral to contemporary civilization. It is also part of the United Nations guarantees to all Human beings”.

Posted by Robert at June 10, 2004 5:08 AM
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Where are all the "Human Right" posse who were so disgusted by the (shock!horror!) "abuse of iraqi prisoners scandal".The media are so fucking one-sided its unreal.

Posted by: Rikki at June 10, 2004 6:27 AM

Where are all the "Human Rights" posse who were so disgusted by the (shock!horror!) "abuse of iraqi prisoners scandal".The media are so fucking one-sided its unreal.

Posted by: Rikki at June 10, 2004 6:27 AM

A "catholic Activist" in The Holy Land Of Arabia.
It smells more mossad and cia than anything. You can only cheat yourself. We all know your evil zionist plans.

Posted by: Mahmoud at June 10, 2004 6:34 AM

Mohmoud,
Hey Dink, can you read at all?

It says, "John Dayal is the vice president of the All India Catholic Union. Dayal has WRITTEN a letter to the king THROUGH THE SAUDI AMBASSADOR IN INDIA".

WHAT IS YOUR COMPREHENSION LEVEL? 3RD GRADE?

Posted by: SusanB at June 10, 2004 6:43 AM

Oh yeah... sorry....a poor catholic in the middle of Arabian desert...he was just there to get a brown skin.
Pagans out of Arabian Lands! can you understand?

Posted by: Mahmoud at June 10, 2004 7:04 AM

This illustrates one of the main reasons that Sheikh Usama bin Ladin is fighting against the appostate rulers of Suadi Arabia. Allah's (swt) Prophet (pbuh) stated on his deathbed that non-Muslims are not permitted in the Arabian Peninsula. It is the will of Allah (swt) that all nonbelievers be expelled from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Gulf States, Jordan, Syria, and the Zionist Entity.

Allahu akbar

Posted by: Reza at June 10, 2004 7:33 AM

Morning all.
As our wedding approaches it gets more difficult to even get in here to read. And my posting usually add very little anyway.

However! In passing I shall leave a link for any who want to see a bit more of the history of radical islam- and its ties to Nazi Germany.

Enjoy!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816232/posts

Posted by: Gary at June 10, 2004 8:16 AM

"Pagans out of Arabian Lands! can you understand?"

Sounds good, but where will all the Muslims go once they're forced out of Arabian lands?

Posted by: Robert Crawford at June 10, 2004 8:23 AM

Or better yet, when will Muslims leave the Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist lands and return (to stay) to the Mecca and Medina?

Hey Gary! I KNEW you were a Freeper! Is this your assigned station, j-watch and dh-watch? Did they assign you to come here and whine about lib'ruls EVERY day at EVERY comments area?

Go ask your Freep buddies why the McVeigh Militia Men of Michigan are too chickenshit to do anything about the loudspeakers in Hammtramck.

Posted by: keithjoy at June 10, 2004 8:39 AM

Oh, Gare? I don't expect you to answer. I already know the answer. (They are a bunch of worthless Jew-hating, darkie-baiting mouthbreathers, that's why. Yellowbellied deerhunting cowards that were too fat to make it in the real military. Or they wet the bed and cried for mommy and couldn't adapt to military life.)

The worthless militias of America are like the skinhead soccer hooligans of Europe. Too busy whining about Jews and sissies to do anything about Muslims.

Posted by: keithjoy at June 10, 2004 8:44 AM

Oh, did I mention that I am part of the American Tribe?

Amen!

Posted by: keithjoy at June 10, 2004 8:44 AM

Keith,

You are off your rocker my man. Get help.

Posted by: basil at June 10, 2004 8:51 AM

I post an article about Muslim ties to Nazi Germany, and Keith calls me a Freeper? whatever the hell that is.

Get a life, KJ. I'm stuck here in Canada without a job until Immigration _Allows_ me to go find work. I can't even leave the country to visit back home.

Go back to your conspiracy-theory buddies. God-damned jackass. (funny how the dems chose a jackass as their icon)

Everyone else, have a good weekend. My fiancee and I have to work to do at the cottage, preparing for the wedding.

Posted by: Gary at June 10, 2004 9:03 AM

C'mon Reza, post 'yer pick.It's almost the weekend & I have an 8mm Yugo Mauser I'm zeroing in on Saturday. It'll be good for both of us, I get to train the way I fight & you get to rehearse for "martyrdom"!!

Posted by: scorched earth 138 at June 10, 2004 10:19 AM

Let us pretend that there really is a Mohmoud somewhere that really does think all non muslims should leave Saudi Arabia. I really do think a large group thinks that.

I propose that after we get Iraq up to 3 million barrels a day, the foreign workers all go back to their respective countries for a one month vacation. I suspect that is all it would take to wake the country up.

Posted by: Buck at June 10, 2004 10:21 AM

Keith, your tinfoil hat is on a little tight again.

I just KNEW you were a DU'er.

Posted by: Nathan at June 10, 2004 11:42 AM

I go to DU at times, they keep banning me and deleting my posts though. it's becoming difficult to think up new nic for that site.
They must have over 1000 servers banned by now. Soon noboby will be able to post there.

Posted by: Nathan at June 10, 2004 11:44 AM

This is why you DU'ers have to come to other sites like this to engage in discussion. It's not allowed at DU, they should call it CU instead.

Posted by: Nathan at June 10, 2004 11:52 AM

*laughs* So KJ, once again you're caught red-handed in spreading untruths. How does it feel? You regularly overgeneralize and then heap on wild accusations constructed out of whole cloth. I thought they taught you to avoid such logical errors in college?

Now back to the topic at hand. I think this proves that ahem..."not all religions are the same". It's only Islam that feels the need to imprison and torture people for bogus charges. (And don't go down the road of the Spanish Inquisition, as we all know to whom that was directed.)

~NMJ

Posted by: NoMoreJihad at June 10, 2004 1:19 PM

Where are all the "Human Right" posse who were so disgusted by the (shock!horror!) "abuse of iraqi prisoners scandal".

***Doing what they always do I guess: Hiding under rocks until something bad to the 'underdog' happens,then they pop up, foaming at the mouth.
see, we don't count if it happens to one of us.

Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2004 7:07 PM

A "catholic Activist" in The Holy Land Of Arabia.
It smells more mossad and cia than anything. You can only cheat yourself. We all know your evil zionist plans.

Posted by Mahmoud at June 10, 2004 06:34 AM

***Mahmoud,
Go take your medicine. You've forgotten again, obviously. That, or go play in traffic.
(Backing away from the crazy poster...)

Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2004 7:10 PM

Oh yeah... sorry....a poor catholic in the middle of Arabian desert...he was just there to get a brown skin.
Pagans out of Arabian Lands! can you understand?

Posted by Mahmoud at June 10, 2004 07:04 AM

***Well Hell Mahmoud, most of us consider your carpet banging, pedophile worshiping, fatwa-as-often-as-you-eliminate, kaka crowd to be the pagans!
2) We too have a calling to spread the word of our God, we just don't have to kill people to do it these days.
3)You are right. We should leave...lock, stock and petrolium facilities. Erase every hardrive, destroy every "pagan" artifact or ediface, return your sorry butts back to the 13 century and then cordon off your country till you kill each other off...then come back.

Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2004 7:17 PM

This illustrates one of the main reasons that Sheikh Usama bin Ladin is fighting against the appostate rulers of Suadi Arabia. Allah's (swt) Prophet (pbuh) stated on his deathbed that non-Muslims are not permitted in the Arabian Peninsula. It is the will of Allah (swt) that all nonbelievers be expelled from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Gulf States, Jordan, Syria, and the Zionist Entity.
Allahu akbar
Posted by Reza at June 10, 2004 07:33 AM

***PBU "US" if we'd get it right, do as I menioned above. Leave. Destroy all of our 'pagan' artifacts as we leave, let your lack of services and infrastructure do you in... Then let you homicidal lot kill each other off...peace and honor might break out again in the world, not to mention common sense...

Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2004 7:22 PM

God-damned jackass. (funny how the dems chose a jackass as their icon)

**Hey! I'm and independant...(Y'know, I'll hug your elphant if you'll kiss my ass...)

Everyone else, have a good weekend. My fiancee and I have to work to do at the cottage, preparing for the wedding.
Posted by Gary at June 10, 2004 09:03 AM
**Congrats to the both of you! I hope you have many happy years together!

Posted by: Tim at June 10, 2004 7:24 PM

Gary; First, mazeltov; 2nd, you're obviously busy right now but aren't you allowed to start your OWN business without immigration's approval. I was under the impression that their concern was with potential employees not employers? Not sure what your forte is but out in here in B.C. the economy is red hot. Seems like a good opportunity for a start-up enterprise.

Posted by: DaninVan at June 10, 2004 7:49 PM

"Pagans out of Arabian Lands! can you understand?"

funny how muslims say stuff like this while living comfortably in the land of the infidels, parasites
Arabia relies on the so called pagans without them they would be yet another backward charity seeking muslim enclave, funny how pagans provide all the skills and innovation, who really is the master there hey
by all means stay backward better for the rest of us who have moved into the new millenium, u will soon be just a memory, tribes still living in a world of space travel , good luck
funny also that these people are even more backward than the ancients that lived in greece, how does that happen? no enlightenment and free thinking

Posted by: pro-orthodox at June 10, 2004 8:02 PM

"Pagans out of Muslim lands." Muslims come to non-Muslim lands and say essentially the same thing. How hypocritical. For Muslims the following maxim appears to be true, "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too!" Remember that prominent Muslims have stated that although they can't conquer the U.S. through war, they will conquer us through the Umma. Conquer implies violence, either physical or spiritual.

Posted by: epg at June 10, 2004 9:45 PM

DaninVan, Tim, (and Catherine from the JW thread), thank you. *s*

Anyone Canadian reading here, vote NDP or Conservative. and Thank You!

Tim, I just got your joke. Lord, I need more sleep...

Posted by: Gary at June 10, 2004 10:17 PM

I'm just waiting for the day some stupid muslim in Iran makes a boo-boo and sets off their own nuke by accident. Maybe thats what that last little earth quake was, deep in their underground mosk.
Knowing the "high standards" muslims have, the population in Iran will die off from radiation sickness, from dumping all that radon in their meager water supply.

anyways, keep your guns oiled people, sooner or later the pimple will pop.

Posted by: Nathan at June 10, 2004 10:22 PM

The Catholic Church is fighting to free my indian brother, but itīs none about Bush, USA or Iraq, the western media doesnīt say nothing and this unnice, what a world we live, because if there are human rights and islamic rights I donīt want muslims in my country.

Posted by: Franze at June 11, 2004 2:42 PM

Saudi Arabia must be totally shunned by non moslems.

Meanwhile, the arabs are well aware that there is no end to the humiliating and brutal treatment some people will endure, for money.

Anyone in Saudi understands the lack of due process and potential for arrest and torture, they just think it will happen to someone else/

Posted by: ploome at June 12, 2004 5:29 AM

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