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Showing posts with label Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Wants Churches Destroyed – It’s Time for the West to Rethink Relations

Unless Western powers show they care about human rights they will be exposed as hypocrites
 
The Grand Mufti prays at a mosque in Riyadh (Photo: PA)
By Father Alexander Lucie-Smith

This story, reported by an Israeli source, about the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia calling for the demolition of all churches in the Arabian peninsula, may at first sight seem like an old story. In fact it is not, it is merely that the Mufti has said exactly the same thing before now; presumably he has had to repeat himself as people were not paying attention the first time. 

There are several very interesting things that one should bear in mind when considering the Grand Mufti’s latest pronouncement. Here are just a few of them.