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Saudi investigates Christ posters
UPI ^ | May 29, 2005, 15:14 GMT | UPI

Posted on 05/30/2005 1:09:16 PM PDT by nmh

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (UPI) -- A Saudi newspaper said Sunday authorities were investigating complaints posters of a crucified Christ were being distributed to school children.

The semi-official daily al-Watan said Saudis in the western al-Taif region have complained expatriates from an unidentified southeast Asian country were "selling stickers and posters of Christ on the cross to elementary school children."

Unidentified sources told the paper the stickers and posters were being sold by Asian street peddlers at traffic lights and in front of schools.

The sources complained selling these products was contrary to Islamic beliefs Jesus himself was not crucified, but rather someone else who resembled him.

The paper said because young children were the target market for the stickers, "adults have become suspicious."

It added parents have called on authorities to take action against street peddlers to "prevent sedition."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: christ; christians; religiouspolice; saudiarabia
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To: SittinYonder

"I'm a little surprised they didn't stone the children for purchasing the stickers."

They strap bombs onto their own so I doubt that this is so far fetched.


21 posted on 05/30/2005 1:31:58 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Oberon
"How do they know the stickers and posters aren't portraying the guy who looked like Jesus being crucified?"

No one knows what Christ looked liked since "images" are prohibited by Christians as well as Jews.

These folks believe that God (Jesus) would not die on a cross. They believe that Christ is an impostor. It was all a fraud and the people fell for it.
22 posted on 05/30/2005 1:34:11 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Unfortunately we do!


23 posted on 05/30/2005 1:34:40 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Mr. Mojo

"The reaction by the ACLU to such posters being so distributed in our own country would be similar. ...or perhaps even more heated."

Isn't it crazy!

The ACLU is on the SAME wave length as these ***holes.


24 posted on 05/30/2005 1:35:39 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

the same people freaking out at the thought of a Koran being flushed down the tiolet

oh the hypocrisy

why do Muslims have such little faith in their own faith that the slightest exposure to another religion is that frightening?


25 posted on 05/30/2005 1:36:12 PM PDT by littlelilac
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To: WoofDog123
Yup ... need that oil and God forbid if we want to do alittle drilling in Alaska ... nope! They parade the cuddly Polar Bears to stop that even thought THEY DON'T live where they'd be drilling.
26 posted on 05/30/2005 1:36:59 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: littlelilac

hey wait a minute that same Koran says the Gospel is part of the record of Allah

let me look that up......


27 posted on 05/30/2005 1:38:15 PM PDT by littlelilac
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To: nmh
I give up.

Have a chuckle now and then, okay? It's good for you.

28 posted on 05/30/2005 1:38:18 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Hugin

"If they find the stickers do you suppose they will flush them down the toilet? Will American Christians riot and kill Muslims if they do?"

Isn't it ironic?



29 posted on 05/30/2005 1:38:25 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: sgtbono2002

"As for the Koran and Muhammed I believe: Yes I believe the Prophet was a homosexual and a pedophile, and a murderous sack of crap."

Me too!

Btw, MY toilet is too good for this koran ****.


30 posted on 05/30/2005 1:39:21 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Oberon
Hey, look...I know why I know it was actually Jesus...but why did the Muslims think it was a portrayal of Jesus and not the fictitious other guy?

Because it would prove that there was one man greater than Mohammad! That is the crux of the religion that there was no man greater than Mohammad. A man dying and rising from the dead would trump a child molesting murderer as the true prophet of God wouldn't it?

31 posted on 05/30/2005 1:39:55 PM PDT by Bommer
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To: Leapfrog
It is after all, a death cult.

I agree it is a death cult. They would never allow Christian churches or preachers standing on a street corner in Riyhad to preach the Bible, why should allow them their mosque here.

32 posted on 05/30/2005 1:39:56 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: nmh

Meanwhile, we are consumed with investigations at Gitmo, fearful that some US GI "infidel" might not have worn gloves to handle the Koran properly, so as not to offend the murdering Muslim prisoners. We are gold-plated saps.


33 posted on 05/30/2005 1:41:05 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: nmh

"Yup ... need that oil and God forbid if we want to do alittle drilling in Alaska ... nope! They parade the cuddly Polar Bears to stop that even thought THEY DON'T live where they'd be drilling."

agree, the ANWR gross mis-information propagated by the media and drilling opponents is staggering in scale. I do wonder why some pols oppose the drilling (the truth, not the polar bear stuff). Where is the payoff for its opponents aside from being a fund-raising, mass-mailing topic? My follow-the-money approach doesn't provide a clear answer to that one.


34 posted on 05/30/2005 1:42:00 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Oberon
I get it ... delayed reaction.

I suppose they must know what each looked like ... .

Don't worry ... I d o laugh at stuff but this stuff does piss me off. They're such hypocritical, evil animals. I shouldn't have looked at those be headings ... .
35 posted on 05/30/2005 1:42:16 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: littlelilac

Muslims have no choice but to believe in the Christian Bible and the Apostles who wrote it. The Qur'an forbids anyone, on pain of shameful punishment, from making distinctions between the authority of the apostles and prophets of God, or from choosing between God's words. No one is permitted to believe in part and reject a part. Those who presume to do so, it says, are infidels in reality (Sura 4:150-52; 2:89; 2:139; 42:15; 29:46-47). http://www.hwforums.com/2113/messages/3282.html


36 posted on 05/30/2005 1:42:56 PM PDT by littlelilac
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To: kittymyrib
We are gold-plated saps.

If I may add, PC run amok.

37 posted on 05/30/2005 1:44:06 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Bommer
Because it would prove that there was one man greater than Mohammad!

A picture of a guy being crucified who wasn't Jesus, but only looked like Jesus, would prove there was one man greater than Mohammed?

[sigh]

Doesn't anyone get a joke around here?

38 posted on 05/30/2005 1:44:15 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: nmh
flush that koran down the toilet

How terribly hasty of you. Why waste all that perfectly good paper?

I have found that the proper (flushing) method of koran disposal is one page at a time. In this way, proper attention and "utilization" of every nuance can be both enjoyed and useful.

Now, please don't misunderstand me. I'm not knocking other methods of disposal such as; clay pigeon stand in, fire kindling, Viking Kitty scratch pad, muslim enema, mulch, etc.

;)

39 posted on 05/30/2005 1:45:55 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: Oberon

yeah I'm not sure why the Muslims had problems with that, they must have a problem with the resurrection thing, because all the prophets died at some point, or maybe they just don't want Jesus to be a martyr? they do want everyone to believe that Mohammad was the last prophet and the Koran is the perfection of God/Allah's word.....

however if Muslims were being true to their own Koran, they would be studying the Torah and the Gospel as well as the Koran and query if there are contradictions between the three, hey there are contradictions in the Koran itself, but then what?

however Jesus's message is so contrary to Mohammad's, let's just sweep the carpenter's son under the rug, so to speak eh?


40 posted on 05/30/2005 1:49:02 PM PDT by littlelilac
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