I suppose he should be thankful they didn’t just tear him apart on the spot, but the Religion of Tolerance™ arrested a man for the crime of: Being Christian.
Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims consider to be holy, is off-limits to non-Muslims.
Nirosh Kamanda, a Sri Lankan Christian, was detained by the Saudi Expatriates Monitoring Committee last week after he started to sell goods outside Mecca’s Great Mosque.
After running his fingerprints through a new security system, Saudi police discovered that he was a Christian who had arrived in the country six months earlier to take a job as a truck driver in the city of Dammam. Kamanda had subsequently left his place of work and moved to Mecca.
“The Grand Mosque and the holy city are forbidden to non-Muslims,” Col. Suhail Matrafi, head of the department of Expatriates Affairs in Mecca, told the Saudi daily Arab News. “The new fingerprints system is very helpful and will help us a lot to discover the identity of a lot of criminals,” he said.
Funny how you never hear complaints of intolerance when the Saudis do this. It is, of course, illegal to bring a Bible or any non-Muslim religious symbol into Saudi Arabia. If you’re wearing a cross or a star of David, they will be taken from you and not returned. Neither will your holy books be returned. The Saudis don’t just confiscate; they destroy.
Now that’s tolerance.
Well, no, it’s not, but CAIR would have us believe it is.
What a crock. I’m Jewish, if I want to visit Italy I can go to Vatican City, tour the Sistine Chapel, stand out in the plaza while the Pope blesses the crowd. Nobody gets bent out of shape and somehow the whole edifice of Christianity doesn’t come tumbling down.
I don’t think much (to say the least) of the pathetic ban on non-Muslims and their infidel cooties from entering the city of Mecca, but on the other hand this has not only been the way it is for just about ever, but there are (as the article pointed out) signs and such warning non-Muslims out of the city. That makes me wonder if there isn’t something more to this story than an either naive or audacious Christian getting caught in Mecca.