Saudis Arrest 27 Christians for ‘Conducting Christian Prayers’
“The Saudis are full of hatred towards non-Muslims.”
9.1.2016
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Saudi Arabian officials recently arrested 27 Christians—among them several women and children—for the crime of “conducting Christian prayers” and being “in possession of Bibles.”
The Freedom Center's own Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim reports that the group of Christians, most if not all of whom were Lebanese nationals, were celebrating a Virgin Mary feast day when authorities stormed their residence and arrested them.
The “religious police” then proceeded to strip them of their visas and deport them back to Lebanon. As Ibrahim notes, this is actually a much better fate than that suffered by other Christians caught practicing their faith in the Islamic kingdom, including torture and long jail sentences.
For example, back in 2012, 35 Christian Ethiopians were arrested and abused in prison for almost a year simply for holding a private house prayer. One of them reported after being released that “They [Saudis] are full of hatred towards non-Muslims.” So much for Islamic tolerance and interfaith dialogue.
Ibrahim laments that as of this writing, no Western language media has reported this most recent harassment, arrest, abuse, and deportation of Christians privately celebrating their faith in the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam. That's because the left-leaning news media don't care what happens to Christians around the world. Christianity isn't on the multiculturalist's checklist of approved religions, and the only kind of persecution that qualifies for news coverage is the mythical "Islamophobia."
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