My daughters have been in Saudi Arabian schools for the last 3 years - we discuss their religious classes…they have not been taught not to eat with non-Muslims. That would have been difficult for them - for all of their cousins and relatives (my side and hubby’s) are non-Muslims.
I hope you don’t mind my posting something here, selvaraj.
Hi Marantha,
My point was that a religion that allows divorce falls short of perfection. Individuals may not live up to a religions precepts and may need forgiveness and reconciliation but if the religion itself does not live up to perfection then it is not from God.
Hello Converted sister,
My point is they are right and you are right. You can interpret the Qur’an in multiple ways and not just on this issue. There is no single authority when interpreting the Qur’an. This confusion and duplicity is not from God but from out adversary.
Dan
When Muslim women are allowed to marry non-Muslim men, then this will make sense.
Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-muslim men b/c then they will have to give up some rights granted to them by Allah.
But of course. Don’t you know that Islam is the one true religion that corrects all the errors of Christianity and Judaism? Why would a Muslim woman ever be permitted to marry a member of a false religion? On the other hand, a Muslim man may take a Christian or Jewish wife because she is forced to convert and if she will not it doesn’t matter the children belong to Islam anyway. In one way their position is to be respected. Muslims at least stand by their beliefs. I wish all of our people did.
Could you please explain this further for me? What rights will they have to give up?
MARYAM NOOOO!!!I hope you don’t mind my posting something here, selvaraj.
Saudi Arabia is bound by an obligation based on a religious principle that is not subject to change based on human whims. A demand to abandon that religious principle by allowing non-Muslim religious ceremonies to be publicly performed there sets a dangerous precedent of demanding that constitutional principles of sovereign nations be violated. For KSA, it would mean violation of a basic principle of the Shari’ah, which is divine legislation, and not secular civil law amenable to change or abrogation. No authority, no matter how powerful, has the right to change or amend divine law. For this reason, the Permanent Council of Scholarly Research and Religious Decrees in Saudi Arabia issued Fatwa 12,413 on July 3, 2000 which affirms the inadminissibility of building public places of worship for non-Muslims or permitting them to publicly perform their worship services in the Arabian peninsula.
The World Islamic Council for Da’wah (Islamic propagation) and Relief issued the following statement in its session chaired by the leading scholars of Al-Azhar in Cairo, on Oct. 12, 2000 concerning the statements of Cardinal Bevi, bishop of Poland, and other officials of the Catholic Church in Italy and the Vatican against Muslims demanding that churches be built in Saudi Arabia:
“It is our determined affirmation that the Arabian peninsula and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its heart, are the geographic citadel of the creed of Islam. Religious law does not permit any circumstance for any religion other than Islam to be proclaimed there. The chair of this committee denounces any further demand for churches to built in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially since this matter was decisively stated in a lengthy dialogue with the Vatican via the World Islamic Council for Dialogue, where it was agreed to close this topic, and not reopen any further discussion concerning it.”
Any non-Muslims there (and many Muslims, too) are transients who have traveled there in their own free will, according to work contracts that stipulate their adherence to the regulations of the country they are working in.
So I reckon, no matter how nice and kind manx’s saudi friends are, lifting the ban on building other places of worship in their country is not in their hands.
Maryam V.
and factor that in to the evenings dinner.selvaraj said:
Mr.Emad,
For your information Saudi Arabia doesn’t apply Islamic Law correctly and don’t speak for Muslims. So I really don’t care how many of “these stuffs” are taught. I show you evidence from the Quran and life of the Prophet peace be upon him and you give me information from asian news. Real nice!
I have read that article. It doesn’t say anything about not taking Jews and Christians as friends. It also doesn’t mention which schools and which textbooks teach these things. You don’t believe everything you read in the news do you?
It is true. Saudi Arabian school subject goes like this.(I have many friends those who are working in Saudi schools).