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rug

(82,333 posts)
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 07:37 PM Aug 2014

Call to arrest atheist bloggers

By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Published: 17:12 August 17, 2014

Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has asked the interior ministry to arrest several people for apostasy and atheism.

The commission did not divulge the number of people whose arrest it requested, but it said that they insulted God and Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)

It added in a report about its work and achievements that it was coordinating closely with the telecommunication and information technology commission to block and shut down pornographic sites as well as sites that promote apostasy and atheism.

“This coordination has led to shutting down several sites for violating rules and regulations,” it said, quoted by local daily Makkah on Sunday.

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/call-to-arrest-atheist-bloggers-1.1373110

I'd say this is religious entitlement.

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they better abandon ship and gtfo RedstDem Aug 2014 #1
And there you go! NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #2
Strange conclusion whatthehey Aug 2014 #3
That would be as offensive as comparing atheist discrimination to human slavery. rug Aug 2014 #4
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
2. And there you go!
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 08:45 PM
Aug 2014

It exists, it just doesn't exist on DU (except for some small number of jury results).

This community is open for business for all religious points of view, even the "fake" ones, whatever they are.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
3. Strange conclusion
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 12:23 PM
Aug 2014

This would be religious oppression and theocracy, not entitlement.

Using this as a backhanded way to deny US Christian entitlement is like denying US white entitlement because we are not selling black people as slaves any more

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
4. That would be as offensive as comparing atheist discrimination to human slavery.
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 12:55 PM
Aug 2014

Wouldn't it?

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