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For the crime of conducting a Christian worship service. Islamic Tolerance Alert from Compass Direct:
June 15 (Compass Direct) – Ten Saudi Arabian police armed with wooden clubs raided a private Christian worship meeting in the coastal city of Jeddah on June 9, arresting four East African citizens leading the service.At press time the two Ethiopian and two Eritrean Christians remained in the city’s deportation jail.
More than 100 Eritreans, Ethiopians and Filipinos were gathered for worship in a home in Jeddah’s Al-Rowaise district at 11 o’clock last Friday morning when a group of Saudi police entered the meeting, wooden clubs in hand.
The startled worshippers brought chairs to seat the policemen, who sat and waited for the three-hour worship service to conclude. None used their clubs or physically mishandled the worshippers.
“Actually, some muttawa [Muslim religious police] came to this gathering about two weeks before,” a local source told Compass, “but they did not do anything.”
But after the June 9 weekly praise and prayer service finished, police arrested four leaders of the group: Ethiopian Christians Mekbeb Telahun and Masai Wendewesen, together with Eritrean Christians Fekre Gebremedhin and Dawit Uqbay.
The four were jailed in the Jeddah Terhil (Deportation) Center, where guards have since permitted an acquaintance to bring them all a change of clothes. Three of the men are married; Wendewesen is single.
Posted by Robert at June 16, 2006 7:12 AM
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Fair is fair, if Christians can't have church in KSA, than they shouldn't be able to build any indoctirnation centers, oops I mean Mosquesor Masjids in Dar al Harb; in our beloved Bilad al Kufir.
All these xtians should live and see how long the best of people survive without them. LOL. Hopefully we can reduce our depency on Middle Eastern oil and leave this crowd to there Blood-feuds and Seventh century mental bagggage.
The Gulf Arabs could have some gratitude, without stinking kufirs they would still be wandering the desert,killing each other in blood feuds and trading in camels. With out us they wouldn't have money for call girls and Ferraris and all the rest of the best of the West.
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at June 16, 2006 8:33 AM
One would think that the Christian left - 'Christian Aid' , the American churches ,etc. - would be at the front of protests against this persecution.
No, too busy supporting the jihad against Israel...
at June 16, 2006 9:17 AM
Issa al Masih is alive and walking in Mecca. There's your headline of the day, Hugh. Let Bruce Hornsby write a song about THAT.
Posted by: Jauhara Al-Kafirah at June 16, 2006 10:31 AM
Those 4 guys are braver men than I am.
Posted by: MP at June 16, 2006 11:46 AM
OT:
Clinton making $$$ for his $$Speaking engagements (some of which include condemning the Danish cartoonists to Muslims audiences)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\06\16\story_16-6-2006_pg4_10
at June 16, 2006 12:00 PM
ARCHIMEDES,
CLINTON is a money whore. he will say anything to anybody as long as they give him money.
at June 16, 2006 12:06 PM
The above incident reminds me of a friend who had his sister living in Qatar. When her baby was a few months old, and it was time for them to perform Annaprashan - a Hindu ceremony in which the baby takes his first solid food, they had to do it secretly behind closed doors. This was because Qatar, like KSA, is a Wahabi country where Infidels not only cannot practise their faith in public; even their private ceremonies have to be hushed so as to not rouse curiousity of the faithful.
Given all that, abdulalshirk above is absolutely right - any Mohammedan who wants to practise Islam in bilad-ul-Kafir should be banned from doing it in any way that makes it evident that he is doing it. If they want to do it, do it behind closed doors. Oh, and please spare us the argument that this is a Wahabi only policy - the only way Wahabism differs from the rest of Islam is in degree, not in content.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at June 16, 2006 1:08 PM
How moderate and tolerant of the Saudis. They chose to ignore the Qur'anic command of killing the infidels, and instead just arrested them. Ahh, the joys of living as a dhimmi under the religion of peace...
at June 16, 2006 1:40 PM
More than 800 mosques in the USA are registered as the property of Sodomy Arabian-based corporations and are bases for Wahabi expansionism into our country. I at least give the Sodomies credit for knowing how to use our laws and customs to destroy us.
Posted by: DesertDawgN29 at June 16, 2006 1:48 PM
Clinton is also a pander bear. He loves the adulation he receives, perhaps even more than the money, and as he is pretty much unburdened with principles, says what he thinks his audience wants to hear.
Posted by: MP at June 16, 2006 2:19 PM
Does anyone have an email address so we can write our concerns.
Posted by: mark52 at June 16, 2006 4:54 PM
http://www.mofa.gov.sa/Detail.asp?InSectionID=1719&InNewsItemID=34473
Tel 009661 4055000 / 4067777
Fax. 009661 4030645
P.O.Box 55937 Postal Code 11544
Ministry of Foreign Affaires Jeddah branch 0096626690900
Ministry of Foreign Affaires Dammam branch 0096638683310
You can email, phone, write. Pass it around.
They see it as acceptable behaviour to stop Christians worshipping in Muslim countries, so it therefore is acceptable behaviour to stop Muslims worshipping in Christian and other non Muslim countries.
Posted by: IceDragon at June 16, 2006 5:05 PM
What I find wonderful is that the startled Christians brought chairs for their would-be persecutors and that the "police" sat through 3 hours of Christian praise and worship. This is their very Christian reaction to police storming into a private home. Perhaps my fellow Christians were hoping the Holy Spirit would touch at least one muttawa's heart. Those four hauled off to jail are in my prayers. They are an inspiration. Why in Hades do we Americans not drill in ANWAR, the Coasts, Wyoming, our backyards if that is what it takes to get ourselves shut of these Saudi creeps.
Posted by: bevc at June 16, 2006 7:14 PM
The saudis are so blinded by the superiority complex given them by their religion that they don't realise they are among the most despised people on earth. The BBC id an item on newly released diplomatic documents fom the early '70's tonight: the then British ambassador complained that it was a tragedy of providence that so much of the world's wealth should be concentrated in the hands of such worthless people.
Posted by: wallyUK at June 16, 2006 7:49 PM
Fair is fair, if Christians can't have church in KSA, than they shouldn't be able to build any indoctirnation centers, oops I mean Mosquesor Masjids in Dar al Harb; in our beloved Bilad al Kufir.
Posted by: abdulalshirk at June 16, 2006 08:33 AM
And here-in lies utter foolishness of Dubya ('Izlum is a Religion-of-Peace') and Condi (Benevolence-in-the-heart-of-Islam) Rice. The design of Islam is so sly, covert and secretive that cover-up is easy. Add to that the deception of Al-Taquiyya and fooling slow folks like DUbya and Condi is a foregoine conclusion. Common sense tells us that If Muslims do not allow other religions in Islamic countries, Islam shouldnot be alloowed in Secular countries. Is that so hard to understand? Good point, abdulalshirk.
Posted by: Alert at June 16, 2006 8:17 PM
Be sure to email this article to:
president@whitehouse.gov
Maybe then he'll stopping kissing these two-faced Saudi scum.
Posted by: profitsbeard at June 16, 2006 10:24 PM
ARCHIMEDES, CLINTON is a money whore. he will say anything to anybody as long as they give him money. Posted by: desidude
And and Amen to that, but don't stop at Clinton.
Politics is a cesspool..period, and we all know what gets dumped into a cesspool and what rises to the top.
Honest politician is an oxymoron..
Current situation is a prime example, just say Kenny boy,Dick, Georgie Boy, ENRON, retirement fund, employee and stockholder rape and fraud.
at June 17, 2006 12:39 AM
Be sure to email this article to:president@whitehouse.gov
Maybe then he'll stopping kissing these two-faced Saudi scum.
Posted by: profitsbeard
LMAO, what universe do you live in? The Saudis are the Bush's good family friends, and the Bin Ladens helped him get his first (failed) business (Arbusto oil) going. Prince Bandar is called Bandar Bush by Barbara Bush, and google images bandar bush and abdullah bush, or read Craig Unger's book House of Bush House of Saud.
And then there is Grover Abdullah Norquist, his Islamic Institute, the GOP arm of the American Muslim Society, and Norquist is Karl Roves best friend.
You don't seem to know much or you have on some serious filters.
Posted by: Nariz at June 17, 2006 12:46 AM
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