Friday, April 29, 2005
Further on that entry below about the 40 Pakistani Christians arrested in Saudi Arabia in which I asked (rhetorically), "Does the PC(USA) have a position on this?"...(and how about the AUT?) MEMRI has a picture and some details:
...The paper also noted that during the police operation, which lasted nearly 10 hours, a cross and a large number of proselytizing books and cassettes were found [in the apartment]. The detainees themselves stated that they had come to listen to lectures by the minister. One of the detainees was a Muslim Pakistani, who acknowledged that he had been influenced by the Christian ideology...
I hope he didn't convert. He could be killed.
...A Saudi religious police source explained the reason for the arrest: "These people tried to spread the poison and their beliefs to others, by means of distributing pamphlets and [missionary] publications." He said that all the detainees "had been transferred to the relevant bodies for investigation."
Ouch. If there's one thing the Saudis are liberal about - it's applying torture.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=11905023_1