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Muslims Throwing Stones War to Mobilize Democracy
December 5, 2003
Diana Appelbaum
Posted on 12/06/2003 8:38:49 PM EST by stevejackson

'If a Jew goes into an Arab Muslim neighborhood (in France,)'...'you have to carry an umbrella to protect yourself from the stones that fly.'
...in exchange for ...protections they were expected to acknowledge their inferiority to Muslims. ...The legal and spiritual inferiority of Jews and Christians was expressed in laws prohibiting ...engaging in certain occupations, riding on horseback, carrying weapons, and defending themselves when assaulted by a Muslim. It was never common for ordinary Muslims to pick up rock and throw it at a random Christian or Jew,...it was common for Muslim boys to throw stones at Jews and Christians passing in the street... Stones in Islam are the instrument by which ...Muslims declare their superiority over the infidel.

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U.S. gives Saudis a pass on religious persecution
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
March 3, 2003
Art Moore
Posted on 03/03/2003 11:52:04 PM EST by joesnuffy

Islam is the official religion, and the law requires that all citizens be Muslims."
"The government prohibits the public practice of non-Muslim religions,"
In Saudi Arabia, the commission said, numerous foreign Christian workers have been "detained, arrested, tortured, and subsequently deported.
the Saudi religious police raided the homes of foreign Christian workers and threw them into overcrowded prisons with squalid conditions
...last year, three Ethiopian Christians detained without charge were severely beaten and tormented under the authority of a Saudi prison official in Jeddah..."Being suspended with chains, each of us were flogged 80 times with a flexible metal cable and also severely kicked and beaten with anything that came into their hands," said a letter from the Ethiopians. The Christians were among 14 foreigners arrested after reports of their participation in gatherings that included Saudi converts to Christianity. Saudi law applies the death penalty to citizens who choose to abandon Islam.
In 1997, two Filipino Catholics involved in Bible studies and prayers in a Saudi prison were beheaded by sword. The men had been accused of "forced armed robbery," but defenders claim they were incarcerated on false charges.

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AT LEAST 12 KILLED IN BOM EXPLOSIONS IN IRAQ
January 2004

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Green Skies (December 2003)
Afghanistan & Iraq