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Religious Leaders Welcome Saudi Proposal

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Lily Hindy
Associated Press Writer
Wed, Mar. 26 2008 01:09 PM ET
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Several Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders reacted warmly to a proposal for dialogue among the religions by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, welcoming the overture from the leader of the strict Muslim country as a major development in interfaith relations.

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Galahad
  • Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:12 pm
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Point one: The Christian God is not Allah, the God of Islam and of the Saudi Arab King.
Point two; If the King of Saudi Arabia, who professes Wahabism ( the most fanatical form of Islam) and who pays for mosques and Imams in Europe wants so much a dialogue with Christianism and Judaism, why doesn' t he aloud churches and synagogues to be built in Saudi Arabia? There is even one single church in that country! And in Saudi Arabia the Bible is not aloud! If you have a Bible you go into prison! When the first church is built in that country then this king of Saudi Arabia would have something to share in the dialogue, until then he is going to talk about what? Don't you guess? About more mosques to be built in Europe, and about the veil of course! If this is a dialogue, Christians and Jews have to demand at least reciprocity; the exact number of mosques already build in Europe to the same number of churches and synagogues to be build in Saudi Arabia. But you know that “a good tree bears good fruits”, and what good fruits has wahabism carried into Europe and into the world? If the king of Saudi Arabia wants so much dialogue with Christian and Jewish religions why has the Saudi Shoura Council voted down on Mars 27, 2008, a law promoting respect for other religions and religious symbols?
aritonang
  • Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:25 am
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Does this means we can take chips and chunks from THE CLOTHED STONE in the western arabia and put them to good use as bridge foundation? That is quite a stone they got there
dgnymn
  • Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:24 pm
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King Abdullah believes "we all worship the same God?" And which God is that? Jesus Christ said "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me!!" I can attest to the fact that not all religious leaders believe this. Jesus Christ is God!! Not all religious leaders teach this.

With all due respect, King Abdullah is a pretender to the throne and a false peacemaker. The only true King of Kings and Prince of Peace is Jesus Christ, whom King Abdullah needs to bow before!!!

REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!!!
wrhalver
  • Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:03 pm
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"Still, it was not clear whether Abdullah's call would be followed by steps in the kingdom to relax the ban on non-Muslim worship services, as well as symbols from other religions, such as crosses and Bibles.

Religious practice is so restricted in Saudi Arabia that even certain Muslim sects, such as Sufis and Shiites, face discrimination, while conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death."

Hmmmm.....interesting.
It looks like it would help if the King started with his own Kingdom first.
A.S.Mathew
  • Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:06 pm
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King Abdullah's vision to have a talk with "brothers of other relgions" Jewish and and
Christian is a historic landmark. The purpose of relgion is to build bridges not to build walls.
God can use him to bring a great unity among the Abrahamic religions: Islam, Christianity and
Jewish religions. They all will meet the Prince of Peace one day very soon.
Stop-the-Madness
  • Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:04 pm
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“The Saudi monarchy has long banned the open worship of other faiths”… “Mosques are the only religious buildings in the country.” – stated in the previous article on Christian Post.

After the King’s “proposal for dialogue”, the King’s royal family decided AGAINST allowing the first non-Muslim house of worship to be built there. So much for the King’s call for dialogue.

Is this King Abdullah’s “Message of tolerance”?

November 13, 1995, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: car bomb exploded at U.S. military headquarters, killing 5 U.S. military servicemen.

June 25, 1996, Dhahran, SAUDI ARABIA: truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds of others.

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacked the United States, killing 3000 people; 15 of the 19 attackers were from SAUDI ARABIA.

May 12, 2003, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: suicide bombers killed 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners.

May 29-31, 2004, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: terrorists attack the offices of a Saudi oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, take foreign oil workers hostage in a nearby residential compound, leaving 22 people dead including one American.

June 11-19, 2004, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson Jr., an American. 2 other Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun attacks.

Dec. 6, 2004, Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA: terrorists storm the U.S. consulate, killing 5 consulate employees…


What exactly are these religious “leaders” reacting warmly to?
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