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CHURCHES/SYNAGOGUES IN SAUDI ARABIA

Reader comment on item: Churches in Saudi Arabia?

Submitted by RAFI (United States), Mar 24, 2008 at 12:25

Dear Dr. Pipes:

If the Saudi authorities are truly serious of allowing the construction of houses of worship for non-Muslims, how will they respond when Muslim Saudis wish to convert to either Christianity or Judaism or, if I dare, Bahai.

The Anglo-Saxon or even Western tradition of religious tolerance or separation of church and state are simply too foreign concepts at this time for Saudi Arabia, when the issuance of a driver's license for 50% of the population is an earth-shaking idea.

BONNE CHANCE!

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