Posted by
Arnie on Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:35:40 PM
Don’t go to Mecca if you are a Christian and do not want to be arrested for trespassing and of violating the rules of Islam. They even have a high tech system of fingerprint identification to catch criminal workers, visitors and overstayers, and that is how the Saudi authorities identified the man. He did confess to be a Christian, not denying his faith. Naïvely he thought the city was a peaceful place and he could make some money peddling his goods while hiding his identity. So Nirosh Kamanda of Sri Lanka was arrested because it’s against the law, which according to the rules of the Wahhibist interpretation of Islam, only Muslims are allowed in the city of Mecca.
Profiling Christians in Mecca? Gee whiz, we hear from the Muslims here in America that they are tolerant of other religions throughout the Islamic world.
Is that not so?
According to our own State Department: "religious freedom does not exist" in Saudi Arabia and non-Muslim "worshippers risk arrest, imprisonment, lashing, deportation and sometimes torture for engaging in religious activity that attracts official attention."
But Americans get in trouble because of suspected profiling of Muslims at our airports. Could our Homeland Security Department borrow their high-tech fingerprint system for a few years? And how about the Jews and Christians living in the city of Jerusalem making it off-limits to Muslims or any other faith including the religious folks of global warming and gay rights. It could then be returned to the Jews and Christians as their "holy" city.
Rest of the short story is
here from WND.