Friday, April 28th, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court sentenced a young man to death for “atheism and blasphemy.” Here’s the story from the Faithwire: Saudi Arabia has reportedly sentenced an atheist to death after he was convicted of both “atheism and blasphemy” for uploading at least one video to social media that was critical of Muhammad, Islam’s primary prophet, […]
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Monday, December 22nd, 2014
King of Saudi Arabia Apparently the Saudi government has passed a new law that prescribes a death sentences for those ‘smuggling’ in Bibles or other non-Muslim or even non-Sunni religious literature into the Muslim kingdom. For a long time it has been illegal to bring Bibles into Saudi Arabia. Usually customs agents have made […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, Free Exercise of Religion, Freedom of Religion, Islamic Intolerance, Persecution, Religious Persecution, Saudi Arabia, The Bible
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
(Seal of the Committee: Wikipedia) The Saudi religious police raided a home and arrested 27 people for secretly conducting a Bible study and Christian worship. Practicing any religion besides Islam is prohibited in Saudi Arabia with potential jail time or even physical beatings for violators. Here’s the story from The Blaze: Saudi authorities raided […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Christians, Freedom of Religion, Islamic Intolerance, Persecution, Religious Persecution, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
(King Abdullah: Wikipedia) The Saudi Arabian authorities have just declared that from now on all atheists are considered ‘terrorists’ in their country and subject to as much as 20 years in prison. Here’s the story from the UK Independent: Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according […]
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Monday, November 18th, 2013
(Saudi King Abdullah: Wikipedia) Strange bedfellows indeed? Since President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry seem convinced that Iran is serious about a detente with America a new trio of allies are forming to continue on as serious opposition to the Iranian nuclear program- Israel, Saudi Arabia, and France. Here’s the story from FrontPageMag: […]
Filed under: Foreign Policy, France, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Obama Administration, Saudi Arabia, USA
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Friday, December 28th, 2012
(Coat of Arms of Saudi Arabia: Wikipedia) This is how the Saudi’s say Merry Christmas? It is still against the law in Saudi Arabia to hold Christian services even in ones own home. Apparently it is also illegal to even have a Christmas party? From al-akhbar: Saudi religious police stormed a house in the […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Christmas, Church and State, Culture & Religion, Freedom of Religion, Islamic Intolerance, Islamist Radicals, Religious Persecution, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law, War on Christmas
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Monday, October 29th, 2012
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) The demands from Muslim countries for the UN to take action outlawing blasphemy against Islam continues in the aftermath of the Mohammad film/video controversy. The latest comes from the King of Saudi Arabia- Abdullah bin Abdulaziz even though the hypocritical monarch has taken no action at all to clean up the […]
Filed under: Blasphemy Laws, Constitutional Rights, Culture & Religion, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Schools, Schools and Religion, UN
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Saturday, October 27th, 2012
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) American Publishers were shocked when they inspect current Saudi textbooks and find them still teaching children to hate Christians and especially Jews. From the Daily Beast: As current and former heads of major American publishing houses, we know the value of words. They inform actions and shape the world views of […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, Islamic Intolerance, Muslim Culture, Quran, Saudi Arabia
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) From NDTV: Riyadh: A Saudi woman was beheaded on Monday after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said. Amina bin Abdulhalim Nassar was executed in the northern province of Jawf for "practising witchcraft and sorcery," the ministry said in a statement carried […]
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to have a Christian church and it is even against the law for Christians to worship in their own homes much less till Muslims about the faith. To bring that point home, two Indian Christians have been in jail since January for sharing their faith […]
Filed under: Freedom of Religion, Islam, Islam and Christianity, Islamist Radicals, Religious Persecution, Saudi Arabia, Toleration
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