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Sri Lankan at Risk of Being Beheaded for Praying to Buddha (Islamic tolerance in Saudi Arabia)
The Chakra ^ | Thursday, July 26th, 2012 | Editor

Posted on 07/28/2012 5:08:34 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

A Sri Lankan youth employed as a domestic aid has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for praying to a statue of Lord Buddha, which is considered an offence according to Islamic Sharia law. According to the Bodu Bala Sena, the youth bearing passport no. 2353715 identified as Premanath Pereralage Thungasiri has been arrested by Umulmahami Police, which is a grave situation. While the youth is a Buddhist, the charge levelled against him is that he paid obeisance to the Buddha at the house where he was employed.

The Bodu Bala Sena organisation further said those employed in Muslim-majority countries are prevented from practicing their religious faiths, and if found to do so are punished severely. Recently a Sri Lankan woman was arrested for gazing at a child at a shopping complex, where she was accused of witchcraft, on the grounds that she had a black cord around her wrist.

On prior occasions too many Sri Lankan female domestic workers were forced to embrace Islam, and wear the traditional attire, while so far four Sri Lankan youth have been beheaded in that country. (Source: Ceylon Today)

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic theocratic monarchy where the religion of Islam is the official religion. Non-Islamic proselytism and conversions are illegal and conversion by Muslims to another religion (apostasy) carries the death penalty. Under Saudia Arabia Sharia Islamic law, children of Saudi parents are considered Muslim, regardless of the country or the religious tradition in which they may have been raised.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: india; islam; saudi; syria; wot
If the Sunni Arabs in Syria establish the Islamist regime they've been working on for decades, we'll soon get to hear about this kind of thing from Syria as well.
1 posted on 07/28/2012 5:08:46 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

The more I learn about Islam the more it disgusts me.


2 posted on 07/28/2012 5:13:57 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Zhang Fei

In this country the rats are up in arms because the republicans including Bacchman are questioning hillaries sidekick wiener and her famlies ties to the muslim brotherhood. Our government has been infultrated and are working with OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS against us


3 posted on 07/28/2012 5:15:18 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: Zhang Fei

The Arab Spring, of which Zero and Klinton are so proud to express their support of, will insure this extreme brand of Islam spreads throughout the Middle East.


4 posted on 07/28/2012 5:19:53 AM PDT by O6ret
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To: layman
The more I learn about Islam the more it disgusts me.

It is a disgusting and violent political philosophy masquerading as a religion.

The Koran:

Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."

Sura (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward."

Sura (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"

Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Sura (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah"

Sura (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."

Sura (9:14) - "Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace..."

Sura (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Sura (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"

Sura (9:123) - "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness."

Sura (47:4) - "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make them prisoners,"

Sura (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way"

Sura (66:9) - "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end

From the Hadith:

Muslim (1:33) - the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah

Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’”

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, "Kill any Jew who falls under your power."

Ibn Ishaq: 327 - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”

Ibn Ishaq: 992 - "Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah."

The Koran and hadiths are replete with examples of Muhammad's barbaric behavior. Robert Spencer does a good job here explaining Islam - Blogging the Qur’an Start at the bottom.

5 posted on 07/28/2012 5:58:17 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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the charge levelled against him is that he paid obeisance to the Buddha at the house where he was employed.

Is this an employer/employee dispute? If it was in the house, it wasn't public. If the only witness is the employer, and his/her word is enough, any domestic in Saudi Arabia lives or dies at the whim of their employer.

6 posted on 07/28/2012 6:05:45 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: layman

They do love to see blood squirt.


7 posted on 07/28/2012 6:14:06 AM PDT by healy61
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To: layman
This is a good resource. http://thereligionofpeace.com/
8 posted on 07/28/2012 7:38:35 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Is this an employer/employee dispute? If it was in the house, it wasn't public. If the only witness is the employer, and his/her word is enough, any domestic in Saudi Arabia lives or dies at the whim of their employer.

My suspicion is that the employer was shorting the employee on wages and saw this accusation as a convenient way to not pay the employee. The mistreatment probably isn't universal, since many foreigners continue heading there to work as domestics based on word-of-mouth from other expats, but it can get pretty bad.

9 posted on 07/28/2012 6:12:36 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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