Islamic Retribution for the Crusades
Obama warned us that being Christian we are deserving of terrorism from the unnamed terrorists. Don't blame the muslims because not all of them are bad, but you can blame all modern day Christians and non Christian Americans for the acts of Christians over 900 years ago. Never mind that Islam aggressively used the sword 900 years ago to convert and gain territory.
If you look at Muslim countries throughout our world, they are 99.9% muslim. This isn't obtained through peaceful adherence and peaceful belief in a religion. This is obtained through coercion that is both church and state based. Saudi Arabia, the Mecca of the muslim world, is also 99.9% muslim and is theocratic in its laws and government. To evangelize is an illegal act punishable by death. There are only a few recognized religions, the other religions, including atheism is not recognized and is punishable by death.
Saudi Arabia has long been criticized for its human rights record. Human rights issues that have attracted strong criticism include the extremely disadvantaged position of women, capital punishment for homosexuality, religious discrimination, the lack of religious freedom and the activities of the religious police.
In 2010, the U.S. State Department stated that in Saudi Arabia "freedom of religion is neither recognized nor protected under the law and is severely restricted in practice" and that "government policies continued to place severe restrictions on religious freedom". No faith other than Islam is permitted to be practiced, although there are nearly a million Christians—nearly all foreign workers—in Saudi Arabia. There are no churches or other non-Muslim houses of worship permitted in the country. Even private prayer services are forbidden in practice and the Saudi religious police reportedly regularly search the homes of Christians. Foreign workers have to observe Ramadan but are not allowed to celebrate Christmas or Easter. In 2007, Human Rights Watch requested that King Abdullah stop a campaign to round up and deport foreign followers of the Ahmadiyya faith.
Conversion by Muslims to another religion (apostasy) carries the death penalty, although there have been no confirmed reports of executions for apostasy in recent years. Proselytizing by non-Muslims is illegal, and the last Christian priest was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1985. There are some Hindus and Buddhists in Saudi Arabia. Compensation in court cases discriminates against non-Muslims: once fault is determined, a Muslim receives all of the amount of compensation determined, a Jew or Christian half, and all others a sixteenth. Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists. The regulations place secular citizens who commit thought crimes in the same category as violent terrorist groups Proselytizing by non-Muslims, including the distribution of non-Muslim religious materials such as Bibles, is illegal. The country has just recently passed a law recommending the death penalty for anyone caught carrying or smuggling a bible into the country. Killing someone for handing out a bible isn't hostile? Demanding non muslims to celebrate Ramadan and not allowing them to celebrate Christmas, isn't hostile? Giving plaintiffs that are non muslim 1/16th of a recourse isn't hostile? Death penalty for atheists and homosexuals isn't hostile?
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