According to Saudi novelist and writer, Hani Naqshabandi, “Our [Islamic] religious institutions do not give us room to exercise free thought.” By way of example, he pointed out that “They [Saudi institutions] said that the Christian is an infidel, a denizen of hell, an enemy to Allah and Islam. So we said, ‘Allah’s curse on them.’”
The Saudi thinker made these assertions in an article he wrote for the Arabic language news site, Elaph.
He also admitted the obvious but little known fact that “Christians are in need of protection … What happened to Christians in Iraq and Syria, and further regions like Algeria, does not receive Arabic media coverage that befits human beings, whatever their religion.”
Nor, he may be surprised to learn, does Christian persecution receive Western media coverage that befits humans.
JerryJ26 says
Saudi Thinker??? Perhaps history’s greatest oxymoron.
mortimer says
His head is still on his body.
Ingrid Pierides says
This statement is very funny and true and least since Omar Khayyam
tilda says
Gives a whole new meaning to ‘slow learner’.
mortimer says
Perhaps you are the slow learner.
Westman says
Hani Naqshabandi should be praised, not criticised, for speaking the wecome truth to power and to the world. Unlike President Al-Sisi, who called for reform of Islam, Mr. Naqshabandi is taking considerable personal risk.
mortimer says
The shallowness of many posters on JW is at times breathtaking and depressing. Naqshabandi is risking his life to make such remarks.
Christians are threatened daily by pious Muslims. Muslim governments deny it happens and are silent. The perpetrators are seldom punished.
It is an offense to criticize a ‘brother’ Muslim, even when he is HORRIBLY guilty as the jihadists are!
R. K. MacUalraig says
I agree. That was refreshing, Thanks.
underbed cat says
Yes I commend him for speaking, he is at risk. Deception maybe….but his words are out there. I do wonder why he is upset with our media ……ask the OIC.
marco says
How long before he is arrested for blasphemy or some similar “crime” against Islam?
mariam rove says
I don’t think any time soon. They way he is dressed, it seems that he is living in a western country. M
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Our [Islamic] religious institutions do not give us room to exercise free thought.
Maybe some lefty “thinker” like Chuck Todd should have this guy on his Sunday morning program. He’s as mixed up as Chuck, so some truth just might spill out of the television set and onto our ignorant public.
Or not.
mortimer says
He also admitted the obvious but little known fact that “Christians are in need of protection …”
Yes, they need protection from MUSLIMS. Saudis are MUSLIMS…many SAUDI ARABS are committing atrocities in ISIS.
ISIS is the walking undead SON OF SODDY BARBARIA.
Rob says
Nothing new here.
For centuries Muslims have been adding epithets to the names of non-Muslims. These were even when directly addressing the person.
A mild present day example would be ‘Dear Robert you unworthy kaffir..’
The is one oft quoted example where a 15th Century Christian dignitary is called ‘You dog of the Romans’
European places that had once received the benefit of Muslim occupation (even briefly) weren’t named except with an added: ‘May it soon be returned to the House of Islam’.
simpleton says
“Hani Nakshabandi: We Should Reexamine Our History Books, The Arabs Were Occupiers in Spain”
Hani Nakshabandi editor-in-chief of Al-Majalla
http://id.famedpages.com/www/Hani+Nakshbandi
http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news/2014/10/patriarch-john-x-interviewed-on-the-church-in-syria-abducted-archbishops-and-more/
Where Hani Nakshabandi interviewed the patriach. It is hard to find much information on this man.
Still he certainly is questioning what his religion is about, and could easily be accused of aiding the muslim enemy, and so be questioned whether he is acting as an apostate, in just giving the time of day to the patriach.
At some stage in his learning he will have to make a decision, on just whose side he is on?, as the koran and islam can not be moderated.
Also to consider the total upheaval in his life and the life threatening islamic opposition.
For him will it be worth it?, and to continue to speak out?
mgoldberg says
Just what is it he said? He stated the Saudi’s teach that the Christian is an infidel, an enemy of Allah and Islam, a denizen of hell. And that there is no freedom of thought.
It’s not exactly revolutionary. That saying anything can arouse the tyrants of Islam is a given. That he has a reputation, and can afford to state the obvious is fine: that he doesn’t necessarily mean that it IS evil, to do what the Saudi’s are doing is what appears to be missing from the statement.
AnneM says
Not surprised. Remember “who” the “real” god of Islam is, as Jesus has said, was “from the beginning a liar, a thief, and a murderer”.
Allah = SATAN.
gravenimage says
Saudi thinker: Muslim institutions teach that Christians are ‘infidels’ and ‘enemies’
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This is certainly true. What *is* unusual is that Hani Naqshabandi is *critical* about this.
And here he is, speaking critically about Arab racism:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2010022063980
One Saudi he speaks to bizarrely blames foreigners for “humidity, unhappiness, and storms”. That may seem particularly unhinged, but Ayaan Hirsi Ali chronicles Saudis blaming Jews for plumbing and car problems, their boss’s mood, and whether they had a fight with their wives.
He does tend to soft-pedal this racism being a Saudi problem—he does not touch on Islam’s Arab supremacism—but for him to have broached the subject at all is quite brave.
And then poster Simpleton cites his article on the Muslim invasion of Spain.
I hope Hani Naqshabandi doesn’t find himself accused of “blasphemy” any time soon.
mike b says
Barely see anything about Christians getting butchered in Syria or Iraq However for 3 days now if seen an outcry or TV, print and left wing idiots on social media about someone calling a Muslim nasty names on a bus
Guess that’s far more important
Carlos Malleum says
This is a brave man. I hope he doesn’t get targetted for his words.
Western Liberal Progressives note: your continuing subversion of those who demand debate around the subject of Islamic violence and intolerance and your attempts to silence us are deeply insulting to the courage and testament of those who risk their lives on a daily basis for the rights to free speech, which you treat with such contempt you would remove it from those with whom you disagree.
Dexter L. Wilson says
Facts that YHWH produced the Bible. The Bible, with the Hebrew Old Testament Text and the original Greek New Testament does things that no other religious text of any other World Relationship between God and Mankind does; demonstrating that only the Creator could have, through 44 inspired writers, written this book. The scribes who copied the original Hebrew Old Testament text copied carefully every letter, jot and tittle. As they read the copied text, if a single letter, jot, or tittle mistake was made, they would destroy all that had been written and start over.
Ivan Panin, a Harvard Hebrew, Greek, and Mathematical Scholar researched the numerical values of the Hebrew and Greek letters. He sent 43,000 pages of numerical research to the Nobel Research Committee in 1900, and they could not refute the fact that God through 44 inspired writers wrote the Bible.
Del Washburn has written two books expanding on the numerical values, “Theomatics” and “Theomatics II”. (See http://www.biblecode.com ).
The most amazing proof that the Creator of the Universe wrote the Bible through the inspired men of God is the Equidistant Letter Sequences. The NSA tried to duplicate such coding and failed. Harold Gans, the lead code breaker for the NSA, before he died, satisfied himself that God wrote the Bible, by using a mathematical formula to determine the probabilities involved in creating codes throughout the surface text of the Old Testament (www.biblecodedigest.com ). Through the code, the multitude of information reads like yesterdays news–you must know the names, events, persons involved, locations, and/or the dates. For this reason it can not be used prophetically.
The original text of the Old and New Testament with the letter numeric values and the multitude of Equidistant Letter Sequences should be enough to prove to anyone that the God of the Bible, is our Creator. There are thousands of words, names, sentences and locations encoded in the Old Testament. If you are thinking that some super intelligence wrote this book other than God, God reminds you from Numbers 23’19”, “God is not a man that He should lie….” No human or computer can duplicate anything resembling the quantity of ELS coding in surface text like the Bible does. There are even codes between books, God knowing which books would be canonized. Where there have been codes in other translated books, they get left behind when you get to 7 letter words and full sentences.
In Ezekiel 36′ 25″-27″ it describes God’s way of salvation–“I will remove your stoney heart and give you a heart of flesh (being born again and receiving Jesus as your Savior), I will sprinkle you with water and make you clean (water baptism), and put my Spirit in you to cause you to walk in my laws and statutes (receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit).
The Bible is the Manufacturer’s Handbook for Planet Earth!
Post Scripts
Sources: “His Name is Jesus”, “The Genesis Factor”, “The Signature of God”, “The Writings of God”, “The Mysterious Bible Codes” (book and DVD’s), “Cracking the Bible Code”, “Bible Code Bombshell”, “The Torah Codes and Israel Today”, Computorah/The Bible Code I, II, &III, bibleprobe.com/jesuscode.htm, “Yeshua”, “Jesus Is My Name” , http://www.biblecodedigest.com, http://www.biblecode.com and there are so many more. Note: even the writer of “September 11 is in the Bible Code” , Dr. Larry Mitcham, his name is coded in the Bible. *:) happySo are Carl Baugh and a few others who have researched the codes.
Ivan Panin corrected an Exhaustive Bible Concordance using what he called the Bible Numerics. He said if there were 2 words found in the Greek New Testament in a sentence and you wanted to know which word to use, the word that harmonized with the sentence numerically was the correct word. He provided a Greek Numeric New Testament. Example of Bible Numerics: In the first sentence in the Old Testament, Genesis 1’1″, every verb is divisible by 7, every noun, and more; there are over 34 features of the number 7 in just this one sentence and these type features are consistent throughout the Bible.
Just a very few of the codes (and there are more being found every day–www.biblecodedigest.com) found: Hitler, Holocaust, Eichmann, Fuhrer, Meinkampf, Berlin, Germany, Belson, King of the Nazis, Crematoria for my Sons, (for statistical purposes only-there are more) 66 names of Rabbis-the cities in which they lived-dates of death (that came from the Book “The Great Men of Israel), Anwar Sadat-1981-parade-shot-gunfire-Chaled (his assassin), Yitzchak Rabin-Israel-will be murdered-date born-date of death-location of the assassination-assassin’s name-Oslo Peace Process, both Wars in the Gulf, George Bush, Saddam Hussein-America Schwarzkopf-the missiles will terrify-Scud B-they shut the door-3rd of Shevat, empty the gas, Murrah Building-Tim-McVeigh-slaughter-desolate, (in Genesis 38′) all the ancestors of King David, (in Genesis)25 trees are named, (between Isaiah 52′ and 55′) Behold the Blood of Jesus-Let Him Be Crucified-Mary-Joseph-Jesus is my Name-all the disciples names,Nazarene, Messiah, Shiloh, Passover, Galilee, Herod, Annas, Caiaphas Caesar, The evil Roman City, (in Zechariah 9’13”)Jesus, (in Zachariah 11’13”)Jesus, (in Daniel 9’26”) The Peace Offering, (in Micah 5’1-2″ Mary, Joseph, and Jesus(Yeshua),(in Matthew 24’7 through 48″) Jesus, Nazareth, Mercy, Lamb, (in Mark 8’9″ through Mark 9’2″) Jesus, Blood, Son, Innocent, Lamb, (in John 5’5″-13″) Jesus, Nazareth, Lamb, the name of the person most responsible for all the satellites circling the Earth and their names—–and on and on and on and on. I don’t think all of the codes will be found.
Bernard deGastyne says
Ishmael, son of Abraham, the father of the Arab nations, entered into a covenant with his father to Jehova and they were circumcised together. Ishmael’s decendants turned away from the one true God and created Allah. THEREFORE the Muslims of Islam are the ONE AND ONLY TRUEST AND ORIGINAL I N F I D E L S and they are all running into hell like a herd of lemmings.
Prasad E D says
Dear Saudi Brothers,
It is very sad to hear “Saudi thinker: Muslim institutions teach that Christians are ‘infidels’ and ‘enemies’”. You have been observing all these years. Where they enemies ? Did they not come to serve you faithfully all these years ? Did they harm your property ? Do you have any evidence. Why do you believe when somebody creates rift and disharmony in your minds. I do not to comment anything bad about those who advice you with all those teachings.
With deep regrets and sorrow for such accusations,
I pray to God that He will Bless you.
Prasad