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US Under Fire for Double Standard on Religious Freedom
2004-09-20
A prominent Saudi scholar yesterday blasted the United States for its accusation that Saudi Arabia violated religious freedom, saying Washington has "no right to talk about religious freedom and human rights" while supporting Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Which has nothing to do with religious rights within Soddy Arabia...
"Look! Over there! It's William Shatner!"
"Everyday innocent Palestinian men, women and children are killed (at the hands of Israeli forces). Their only sin is they defended their land, life and legitimate rights," the Saudi Press Agency quoted Sheikh Hassan Al-Saffar as saying. He said the Israeli human rights violations were taking place "with the full knowledge and encouragement of the American administration that supports Zionist injustice and crimes."
"And that causes the gummint of Soddy Arabia extend no religious freedoms to anybody but salafists..."
The Saudi scholar also condemned the continuing American occupation of Iraq and the US military campaigns targeting Iraqi cities and regions. "This has led to a lack of security and the spread of terror and fear," he said. "All these negate the slogans and reports issued by American agencies on human rights and religious freedom," he added. "In the US itself, Arabs and Muslims suffer from racial and religious discrimination as reported by Amnesty International, which accused American authorities of committing excesses in racial discrimination since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. One out of every nine Americans have suffered from such discriminations in one way or another during the past three years," he said quoting the Amnesty report. "Even after all these US policies and practices, does the US State Department expect that people would look at its report on religious freedom with respect?" the scholar asked.
Posted by:Fred

#17  When it comes to the Saudis, I'm starting to lean towards "too dumb to live"...
Posted by: mojo   2004-09-21 1:03:27 AM  

#16  Idiotic things like this make me think that Arabic doesn't have a word corresponding to the English word "irony."
Posted by: Jonathan   2004-09-20 11:56:03 PM  

#15  The Suadi argument makes sense only if you consider killing Jewish childern with bombs to a protected expression of the Islamic faith.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-09-20 10:59:35 PM  

#14  Saudi scholars = Noth Korean democrats in the oxymoron contest
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-20 10:48:40 PM  

#13  Saudi scholars = racists in the truest sense of the word.
Posted by: JP   2004-09-20 10:36:02 PM  

#12  And I'm 95% certain the Zionists are behind it.

/do I really need one?
Posted by: Xbalanke   2004-09-20 9:42:38 PM  

#11  Thats the tried and trusted BLAME IT ON THE JEWS again. Religious freedom means only one thing to Saudis, freedom to support terrorism and to bash Jews at every opportunity. They exported the Wahabi cult all over the world. And on their Soddy land even muslims that dont belong to cult dont have freedom. Forget Churches, How many mosques are in Soddy that are not run by Wahabis you guessed it "Zero". I think it is a desecration of the word to call a Saudi a SCHOLAR. He is what they all are, camel brained Hashish smoking, child raping Salfists.
Posted by: Fawad   2004-09-20 8:55:07 PM  

#10  The entire Saudi "academic" community is a waste of oxygen and an insult to the human race. They'd get twice the respect from me if they just kept their mouths shut - although twice nothing is still nothing . . .

Maybe we can get Kofi a scholarship to a Saudi school? He'd fit right in.
Posted by: The Doctor   2004-09-20 8:36:43 PM  

#9  How do you type that noise you make when you take your finger and twiddle your lips up and down really fast? "BWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWB"? Close enough.
Posted by: Chris W.   2004-09-20 7:59:01 PM  

#8  Questions:

Are there mosques in Israel/Palestine? Are there synagogues in Saudi Arabia?

Does this statement prove religious bias:
"Everyday innocent Palestinian men, women and children are killed (at the hands of Israeli forces). Their only sin is they defended their land, life and legitimate rights..."



Posted by: jules 2   2004-09-20 6:47:30 PM  

#7  Oh, God, where is Richard the Lion Heart?

Can he be spared?

I think we have of need him again.
Posted by: Michael   2004-09-20 6:33:44 PM  

#6  Saudi scholars = oxymoron
Posted by: SR-71   2004-09-20 6:27:34 PM  

#5  This exercise has one useful purpose and that is to show that dialogue with the Saudis concerning religious freedom is a total waste of time. The Saudi clerics are just not wired for dialogue. With this in mind, we must develop our options for dealing with the issues that are created when the Saudi princes go down. The Saudi muckity mucks (no disrespect to Mucky!) have everything to gain with the status quo and everything to lose by a reformation of Saudi society.

There is one thing for certain: Saudi society, due to Saudi royals financing terrorism, will HAVE TO CHANGE, one way or another.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-09-20 6:11:38 PM  

#4  hogwash...1 in 9 please..

we should follow the soddy example and not allow any mosques in this country...at least funded by those asshats...
Posted by: Dan   2004-09-20 6:09:15 PM  

#3  ..saying Washington has “no right to talk about religious freedom and human rights” while supporting Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Ahhh, the old standby excuse - Israel.

"Mr. Al-Saffar? Excuse me sir, but we're not paying attention to you."
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-09-20 5:40:05 PM  

#2  A classic case of "Look at the Wookie over there."
There is no freedom of religion in Saudi.
All other statements this assclown satinst death cult leader makes are usless and a waste of breath.

Clean up you baby killing, purposeful terrorist bombing of civilians, beheading of kidnaped hostages, lies and oppression is ok religion.
Oh and FOAD Saudi scholars, every last one of you satanic bastages.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-09-20 5:31:04 PM  

#1  ...um, yeah. That's exactly like forbidding even a whiff of non-Islamic religion into the holy wastelands of Arabia. WTF were we thinking?
Posted by: BH   2004-09-20 5:29:55 PM  

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