What happens to the Holy Bibles confisticated at Airports/

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Maybe they were overstepping their bounds in response to the Quran-burning threat.”

Not hardly. My X worked in Saudi from 1990—1995 actually 5 yrs and not 4 yrs as previously stated. Long before the threat of quran burning incident. They are not tolerant of other religions and never have been and don’t feel a need to be.

"Glad we have the internet today. No need to bring a Bible, just go online and read from there. "

Constantine: That is true in the countries that accept other religions but I believe that certain sites are blocked in Saudi and I’m quite sure that anything having to do with Christianity in a muslim state is blocked. I do remember my X saying something to this effect.
 
I am not sure about the policies of a lot of countries, but I know it took a lot of work to get Christian literature into Turkey even though it was for church use only and Turkey is one of the more secular Islamic countries. I did ask for religious text at a hotel and they offered both the Qur’an and the Bible for me to choose. Openly propagating; however, is still illegal in that country (as far as I know).

P.S. I was with a Protestant group (specifically Presbyterian) and I found them to be much more traditional than many of those here (repeatedly making the sign of the cross, using wine for the Eucharist as well as a communion table, wearing liturgical attire, raising the cup and bread toward heaven…very liturgical)

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Alexius
 
I have worked in Saudi Arabia for about 7 years. Bibles and crucifixes are confiscated at the airport. No mass congregation is allowed. I have been called names and spat upon for being a Catholic from Pakistan. Every expat has a mandate to carry a work permit (iqama). Muslims expats are issued a white iqama and non-muslims expats are issued a brown iqama. One is required to show the iqama as id.This is how people of other religions are discriminated in Saudi Arabia

On the Pakistani passport there is a section where your religion is stated. Again, this is how are discriminated. People can get killed for desecrating Muhammed’s name and it is supported by the constitution.
 
Afrem:

Thanks for joining in on this thread. It is good to hear from someone else that has worked in Saudi and has experienced the same. Do you know or have any idea what becomes of the bibles and the crucifixes once they are confiscated?
 
Thank you horselvr:

I have no clue as to what becomes of the confiscated items at the Saudi airport. The Saudi immigration staff just rummage through our baggages and herd us like cattle through the customs. No one is allow to question about anything!!!I have had numerous encounters, interactionsand experience with saudis and it all boils down to one thing.Intolerance towards non-muslims. Similar experience within Pakistan. There is something in their “teachings” at an early age, that triggers hatred and intolerance towards non-muslims. Anyone who says the Islam is a religion of Peace should go to a Muslim country and experience its believers first hand. They will be know by their fruits…

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Afrem said:
I have worked in Saudi Arabia for about 7 years. Bibles and crucifixes are confiscated at the airport. No mass congregation is allowed. I have been called names and spat upon for being a Catholic from Pakistan. Every expat has a mandate to carry a work permit (iqama). Muslims expats are issued a white iqama and non-muslims expats are issued a brown iqama. One is required to show the iqama as id.This is how people of other religions are discriminated in Saudi Arabia

On the Pakistani passport there is a section where your religion is stated. Again, this is how are discriminated. People can get killed for desecrating Muhammed’s name and it is supported by the constitution.
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Thanks Afrem for sharing your personal reality of happenings in Saudi. I did read many question of what happens to the Holy Bibles confisticated, but no one bothered to answer. If you chek the events that took place recently of quran burning in www.arabnews.com, you will see some did ask, and thats how I came to know tht Muslims only hold quran at esxteem and all others are just ordinary fairy tale stories to them. But when other communities consider quran as a fairy tale, they just create a lot of noise and voilence in the world. ie they hold the world at ransom.
 
LongJourney said:
Yeah, you gotta be careful, but you CAN take one Bible into the country. 😉
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That story is purely for foreigners consumption so that Saudia Arabai can tell Westerners and the Un that they are “tolerant”. The REAL rule is that NO Bible is ever allowed into Saudi Arabia.

There was a media report a few years ago of a man who had an 18th century fanmily heirloom Bible with him. The airport police confiscated and destroyed it in front of him.

My guess is that they either burn them or put them through a shredder. Hopefully they don’t do what the 16th century Anglicans did with the Bibles and other religious books which they had stolen from the monasteries and church libraries that they had sacked, looted and destroyed. They used them for toilet paper.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Glad we have the internet today. No need to bring a Bible, just go online and read from there.
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I think you’ll find Saudi Arabia and some other Moslem-ruled countries block internet access to any non-Moslem religious site.
 
I think Saudi Arabia, Iran, and possibly Afghanistan would be the only Muslim majority countries you would have a problem in. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Syria, ect. does not have any restrictions AFAIK. Plus some of these countries have a sizable Christian population. i.e. Maronite Christians in Lebanon, Coptic Christians in Egypt.

-Delta1
 
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