MSNBC says Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan, chief justice of Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judicial Council, has encouraged Saudis to fight in Iraq in an audio tape secretly recorded at a government mosque last October. Sheikh al-Luhaidan denies it. I’m not really sure about this. I will try to find out more, and I’ll let you know.
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My father and I were discussing this today. If this is true, not only is the man in question in deep trouble, but so is the state.
I don’t know about you guys, but I think I see another “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in the mist.
Could be. It’s either that or baba and I are just be absolute pessimests!!(or optimists, whichever way you choose to look at it.)
You’re right fara7. In a way you can compare this to Iraq, and Saddam’s rise to power.
Granted, they were total opposites. But we’re alike Saudi is the land of religous extremes, and Iraq, well it was the land that had the slogan “La Ilah wal 7yato madah” all over the country. Saddam rose to power slowly, because no one has stopped him in his tracks, and because of that he got all the power he needed, and when they wanted to stop him they couldn’t.
It’s becoming like that in Saudi Arabia, religous scholars can do almost anything nowadays and get a way with it. I said almost, because one of the many guys apprarently got unlucky, and that’s the article Ahmed is referring to.
We have to cut the root of the problem now, before it’s too late. The extremes that religon has been taking lately, has been at the cost of human lives. I never want to see that in my own land, but what can we really do about it?