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."
Geez, didn't you ever hear of Brian? Monty Python must have read the Koran pretty closely...
Ever heard of sarcasm?
Ha! I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks, Mississipy. It boggles the mind.
Yeah, we're self destrucitng internally.
They're laughing their arses off!
LOL--reminds me of the scene in that Star Trek movie when McCoy cautions Scotty about giving a present-day business owner critical future technology, thus risking changing history, and Scotty says "How do we know he didn't invent the thing?"
Is it time for us to riot, yet?
LOL!
News you won't hear in Newsweek.
Get a load of THIS ->
Critics want probe of Alexandria Islamic school
May 29, 2005
By Matthew Barakat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria is an outpost of militant Islam, say critics who point out that the school's 1999 valedictorian is charged with joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush.
Two other persons connected to the academy also have been linked to terrorism-related cases, and a U.S. senator has asked the Justice Department to investigate the school.
But the academy's teachers, students and administrators say suspicion of the school ? serving nearly 1,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade at two campuses just beyond the Capital Beltway ? is based on misperceptions.
Female students recently celebrated their induction into the National Honor Society. Most but not all of them wore a hijab, the head scarf that some Muslims believe is required for females.
Essays and artwork share space on the walls with pictures of the Saudi royal family. One essay was about the TV show "Fear Factor."
The school was founded in 1984, primarily to serve children of the Saudi diplomatic corps. Today, the student body is more diverse, with nearly three dozen countries represented, but much of the funding still comes from the Saudi government.
In recent years, the academy has been at the center of debate over the religious curriculum in Saudi schools and whether it fosters radicalism. Those questions resurfaced when the former valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was charged in February. He pleaded not guilty and argued that Saudi authorities extracted a false confession from him through torture.
School officials are frustrated about some perceptions of the school, saying two-thirds of the teachers are American and non-Muslim. They also say promoting a specific strain of Islam would be impossible because students come from across the Muslim world.
School officials also say the religious curriculum shows no favoritism, though critics say the Saudi curriculum is biased against Shi'ites.
Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan, the school's director general, acknowledged some of the religious curriculum that comes from Saudi Arabia needs to be modified. "If there is anything ... that we feel is offensive, we ask the teachers not to teach that kind of subject here," he said.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, has asked the Justice Department to investigate the school, saying that Abu Ali is not the only former academy student to engage in questionable activities.
A federal indictment in Chicago last year named a former treasurer of the school, Ismael Selim Elbarasse, as a high-ranking official within the militant group Hamas, though Mr. Elbarasse is not charged with a crime. Mohamed Osman Idris, an academy graduate, pleaded guilty in 2002 to lying on a passport application, following an investigation into whether he was supporting Hamas. The Justice Department told Mr. Schumer it could not comment on whether the academy itself was under investigation.
Abdullah Hijazi, a senior from Mitchellville, Md., said he and other students have not been exposed to extremism, adding: "We never really reach that depth in Islamic studies. Shi'ites and Sunnis, they differ about little things."
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20050528-103500-5918r.htm
Meanwhile the stupid sheeple defend this crap. And don't give me that "religion of peace" crap, BUSH!
Can't let anyone hear the message of Christ, because if you do, you'll lose control.
"I am starting to believe that Islam itself is the anti-Christ."
I'm beginning to wonder the same thing.
Even if people don't believe in that crap, they'll be too horrified by seeing beheadings to do anything about it so you submit through terror.
"Is it time for us to riot, yet?"
No, deport them or make them so unhappy they don't want to be here.
We'll triumph over them in the end. When Americans finally wake up to the sound of bullets whizzing over their heads, they will realize that we are in a fight for our way of life and survival. Until that time, they will exist under a false sense of security.
Keep your powder dry.
"Any Koran scholars here? Enquiring minds want to know: what did the Prophet say the real Christ gave the stunt double?"
I'm not an Islamic scholar, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Islamic teaching I think says that at the last moment, Allah replaced Jesus with Judas Iscariot, thus sparing him and killing the betrayer.
When Americans finally wake up to the sound of bullets whizzing over their heads
It won't be bullets whizzong over heads, it will be school assignments for our children that require them to learn about Islam, write essays about Mohammad, and take sensitivity training regarding understanding the Muslim way of thinking. And since it will be the NEA leading the charge, it will be damned difficult to stop.
Until a grassroots protest rises up in this country and swells beyond all imagination, they will keep taking and taking away everything that made this country great.
The Anti-Christ is islam...until people start to admit that, it will only grow until it consumes us.
"I'm not an Islamic scholar, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night..."
LOL!!
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