Actually, I see this as a sign of progress. The brothers apparently went home intact rather than shortened by a head. Perhaps it might also be the case that the Sa'udis wory that a Christianized East Africa might rise up against them one of these days. After all, in Sudan, not even an Islam that claims to have had the Mahdi himself was able to completely put down the Christianized south of the country even after 30 years.

Posted by: Kepha at September 5, 2006 7:30 AM

Didn't the four Christian know that Saudi Arabia is not fit for humans. It is populated by vermins.

Posted by: FIVEOFNINE at September 5, 2006 9:59 AM

"They told me to go to Israel, not to Saudi, because they said Saudi is a Muslim country, not for Christians."

Hey, Bishop Riah Abu-El Assal... that was for you.

Posted by: ZionistYoungster at September 5, 2006 10:12 AM

And they want us to let al-Turki out?

Posted by: Concerned Citizen at September 5, 2006 10:16 AM

Any chance we can get these Brave Four employed at Fox News?

Posted by: bevc at September 5, 2006 1:20 PM

"Any chance we can get these Brave Four employed at Fox News? "

By the way, they have now included British commercials on Fox News beamed to the UK. That means more people are watching and it is now considered commercially viable for commercials!

Hup hup. Huzzar!

"Saudi is a Muslim country, not for Christians."

Well, non Muslims shouldn't be in Muslims countries... Vice versa should also be practised, sauce for goose sauce for the gander and all that. The US and UK, Europe are Christian nations, they are not for Muslims. They can go of their own volition or maybe they can keep on pushing until they are returned feet first to their lands of origin.

Posted by: IceDragon at September 5, 2006 5:09 PM

So much for "no compulsion in religion".....

Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at September 5, 2006 5:53 PM

Wait.......I thought for sure that Mr.Hooper has spoken publically about how Jesus is revered in the Quran.

So why are 4 people being deported from an Islamic Country for praising a Prophet from the Quran?

ans.
Because Hooper lies, and CAIR is one big lie , and while Medina is the A-Hole of the middle east , Mecca is a few hundred miles up it.

The joke is funnier with the foul language but DW/JW have higher standards than other forums.

Posted by: ala-sux at September 5, 2006 8:56 PM

I'm suprised that the guard said "Israel" and not "Palestine" or the "Zionist Occupation" or something like that.

The link in the summary doesn't go to the story mentioned.

The full story is here :
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/newslongen.php?idelement=4511

Posted by: non-redneck at September 5, 2006 9:31 PM

Saudi Arabia: Don't forget those words about how the stone that was rejected will end up at the head of the corner.

Posted by: traeh at September 6, 2006 12:34 AM

According to numerous human rights groups, Saudi Arabia, home of Mecca and the very heartland of Islam, is one of the most despotic countries in the world. And it is clear, both from numerous polls and from the actual politics of Muslim-majority nations, that very large numbers of Muslims find nothing wrong with despotic theocratic government. They find it Islamic, which is not surprising since as almost everyone knows by now, Muhammad himself set up a theocratic state with himself as ruler. And as Danish researcher and linguist Tina Magaard (Ph.D in intercultural communication from the Sorbonne in Paris) recently concluded after a three-year study of the texts of ten major religions, Islam is the most violent of the major religions.

Even if we exclude all the terror attacks carried out by Muslims in Iraq, there have been, over the last five years, literally thousands of deadly Islamic terror attacks worldwide (see the data at www.thereligionofpeace.com). This emphasis on religious violence has been there from the beginnings of Islam, and helps explain how it was that Islam could conquer all of North Africa, and fight all the way to India, in a mere century after Muhammad's death. Islam's unique doctrine of jihad, open-ended violence against non-Muslims in order to spread Islam everywhere, and the use of deception against non-Muslims, are rooted in numerous verses in the Quran, as well as in the hadiths and the early biographies of Muhammad, and do much to explain the hardy perennialism of despotism in Islamic politics right down to the present day.

Though there are a lot of more or less nominal and therefore benign Muslims in the world, the more I learn of Islam the clearer it is that Islam itself is not benign, and the more I feel forced to conclude that it represents a socio-historico-spiritual illness and/or evil of the first rank. Unfortunately, honest criticisms of Islam are often shut down by a well-meaning belief that tolerance should accept and include absolutely everything, even an intolerance that would destroy tolerance. In fact the critics are slugged coming and going, by the naive multiculturalists on the one hand, and by the people who are not naive, but who are afraid of Islam, and don't want to get involved, just as people don't want to get involved when the Mafia is in question. And from a third side the critics get slugged by the "Mafia" itself -- both through radical Islam's agents pretending to be nothing more than civil rights defenders wielding lawsuits and slanders supposedly only to protect an innocent religious minority -- and also through threats of assassination and, occasionally, actual assassinations. The lesson is, people better wake up and defend themselves from this three-pronged attack or in the coming decades they may lose, particularly in Europe ( where Muslim populations are growing apace), the democratic civilization it has taken thousands of years to achieve.

Posted by: traeh at September 6, 2006 1:40 AM