The Saudis are standing firm on their refusal to allow any religion besides Islam to be publicly observed in Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi Arabian official says mosques can be the only places of worship in his country, rejecting pressure to change heavy restrictions on religious besides Islam.
Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites, implements a strict version of Islamic law.
It told a United Nations meeting that the kingdom allows other religions in private.
But the vice president of the Saudi human rights commission said Friday that establishing houses of worship for non-Islamic religions was too sensitive an issue.
Zaid Al-Hussain tells the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva that there could be no debate. Other countries have urged Saudi Arabia to abolish laws that breach basic human rights such as freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion or belief.
Say, you think the Human Rights Council is going to issue any kind of statement against the Saudis on this? Or are they too busy condemning Israel for, well, everything?
The next time you hear anyone call Israel a theocracy, laugh at them and point. Then tell them about this.
What is it with islam? Anyone who subscribes to this death cult theology soon seems to exhibit a complete loss of logic, decency and bigotry.
Do we in the west have the guts to tell these putzes where to eff-off?
Maybe Avigdor Lieberman can! It’s good start.
Opps, I mean they seem to exhibit a huge amount of bigotry.
How about this? All funding for mosques and other Islamic centers and purposes coming from the Wahhabbist Entity must cease. Any such centers funded by the Wahhabbist Entity (that’s about 80 percent in America) must close or find local funding. Christians and Jews in America pay for their own churches and synagogues, let Muslims pay for their own mosques.
There’s no interference with freedom of religion here. I think we could legitimately go farther, but this will do or now. Do not expect such a ban to be implemented, though.
Al-Hussain says that there must be no debate on the topic so there isn’t. Damn, the Israelis should have thought of that. Now all they have to say when they’re charged with crimes against humanity is “there will be no debate on the matter.” Should work, especially if they can suddenly discover huge oil reserves.
Those seabed natural gas resources might come in handy for that ,Alex. If the Euros can get natural gas from the Israelis in the future, to replace the gas the Russians hold up from sending them for political purposes, perhaps they’ll act a bit less antisemitic.