Terrorism In The Middle East....

[agchristie]

A different world...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3768480/Saudi-Arabian-man-jailed-10-years-given-2-000-lashes-tweeting-atheist-beliefs-stating-religion-fuels-hostilities.html

[Old_Geezer]

Indeed: but he'd be aware of what he was risking.

[agchristie]

I hadn't realised the law had changed relatively recently there.

As you say,OG,it's not as if he wouldn't have known the consequences..

[Old_Geezer]

Does it mean that any country that tolerates atheism is considered by Saudi Arabia to be a terrorist State, or at the very least a State with terrorist sympathies ?

[-Talbot-]

I wouldn't dare criticise this backward, despot Kingdom ... after all it is their culture to be total ***.

[-Talbot-]

cripes ... They had better add that to the sweary filter

[agchristie]

Well,the Saudis saw fit to amend their laws on the King's behest but even they would respect that other countries devise their laws to suit.

It's a strange one.A measure of how strict the Saudi's view dissention of this type.

View of others? More,'terrorist' sympathies I reckon .

[Peter Pedant]

bad news
I dont suppose any of it is in the Quran

( that atheism is akin to terrorism )

[DTCwordfan]

now what is the case for martyrdom leading to profound change in a religion?

[agchristie]

Is that why the King changed the law because there was no mention in the Koran that crimed it as an act of terrorism?

(Islam expert please?)

[jourdain2]

So, we come back to 'East is East and West is West,' don't we? How long has it taken to repeat this historical truth?

[DTCwordfan]

probably not - the Wahibis have always sought extreme control since they emerged on the Saudi scene in the 1930s, though they had been bubbling away underneath for nearly 150 years before....

[naomi24]

When the Koran was written the concept of atheism was probably non-existent in any society. The Saudis, it seems, are very fashionably indulging in ‘newspeak’. How progressive!

[agchristie]

Ah! Naomi! Good old 'newspeak', of course! Why didn't I think of that? :o)