2 religions in the peninsula of the Arabs

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Robert Squires <rob_squires@hotmail.com> writes


>Well Sayed, you should criticize the Saudis for not following Islamic 

>Law. According to several hadeeths, no other religion except for Islam 

>is allowed in the Arabian Peninsula and non-Muslims are not allowed to 

>live there.  What would people think of Islam if this ever happened?  


CARR
Could you tell me which hadeeths please?
A leading religionist in the Daily Telegraph, who is forever praising
Islam (without going so far as to quote Muhammad), claimed that the
Prophet Muhammad would have been far too wise not to allow religious
minorities to have their own religious organisations and religious
leaders to offer them moral advice.

This is a concept that I may need to spend some time with before
accepting!

He said that the Saudi insistence on no churches in the Hijaz (right
term?) was a minority ruling of the Wahabi (sp?) sect and that most
Muslims did not accept it.

BTW, he also claimed that the Pope would support and pay for a mosque in
the Vatican, if there did happen to be any Muslims living in the Vatican
state!

As you may or may not know, a British nurse has just been sentenced to
500 lashes and eight years imprisonment after being found guilty of
being an accessory to murder.

This has caused an outcry in the UK, mainly because the judicial process
was not exactly British justice, and we had the interesting spectacle of
Western liberal Christians saying on radio that the outcry was *purely*
a result of attempts to demonise Islam.

We get many Western liberals praising Islam, yet, AFAIK, the only thing
which ever gets quoted from the Qu'ran is 2:256 "There is no compulsion
in religion".

In the same way, the sayings of Jesus which get quoted most often are
the Beatitudes and never Matt. 23 or 24.

Western liberal Christians have the strange view that religion is for
praising , not quoting.

If I were allowed to choose the Bible passages which are printed in
newspapers as 'Thought for the Day' or 'Word of the Week', I wonder how
long it would take Christians to complain volubly.

Let's see :- 
Monday Numbers 31:17-18
Tuesday Luke 6:30
Wednesday Matthew 15:4
Thursday Ezekiel 23:20
Friday Luke 14:26
Saturday - Editor deluged with complaints

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