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Doullah, Windsor, ON, Canada. Note:Saudi King Abdullah in a western Suit | |
Look at the Custodian of the two Holy Mosque and the King of a Shariah Islamic Country leaving his traditional Islamic culture accepted the western culture by wearing western suits not following the Islamic ethics at all. So much so how much dare enough Bush urges Saudi religious reforms. |
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| Bush, left, has a close relationship with the Saudi king [AFP] | | George Bush, the US president, has challenged Saudi Arabia to overturn its ban on apostasy - the changing of a person's religion - at a United Nations interfaith conference in New York. Bush called on the conservative Muslim kingdom to change its attitudes towards the practise that is strictly outlawed in Saudi Arabia and punishable by death. Bush said his own Christian faith had sustained him throughout many challenges during his presidency. "We may profess differ creeds and worship in different places, but our faith leads us to common values," he said. However, the outgoing US president was unapologetic about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying that his country was "protecting" Muslims. "Through the generations, our nation has helped defend the religious liberty of others - from liberating the concentration camps of Europe, to protecting Muslims in places like Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq," Bush said. The UN has described the two-day conference in New York, which is sponsored by Saudi Arabia, as being designed to bridge differences between religions and cultures. Rights issues All 192 UN member states were invited to the event, which the king set up following one he helped organise in July in Madrid, Spain. | Saudi police can detain those suspected of changing their religion [EPA] | However, Saudi Arabia's involvment has sparked criticism from some rights groups of its own record. Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director for Human Rights Watch, said a UN discussion on religious discrimination should spotlight places "where religious intolerance runs deepest, and that includes Saudi Arabia". On Wednesday, the first day of the conference, Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, praised King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for his Middle East peace initiative. "I wish that your voice would become the prevailing voice of the region, of all people. It is right, it is needed, it is promising," he said. Western 'intolerance' Earlier, King Abdullah had said it was "high time" the world learned from history that differences between followers of different religions and cultures "engendered intolerance, causing devastating wars and considerable bloodshed without any sound logical or ideological justification". The Saudi monarch called for all peoples and nations to promote peace, harmony and tolerance, saying "terrorism and criminality are the enemies of every religion and every civilisation". Representatives of other Muslim states repeatedly stressed what they described as Western intolerance of Islam.
Asif Zardari, the Pakistani president, took up the theme on Thursday, saying that "imaginary fear of Islam has been rising". Source: | Al Jazeera and agencies | |
Call it bootlicking, call it diplomacy, call it friendship, call it kissing in action, call it to save the monarchy ........a picture is more than thousand words : Politics has seen strange bed-fellows international relations has shown even stranger engagements and behind-the-scenes intrigues ..... President Bush and King Abdullah's special relationship. Is it Islamic relationship? Truths are always stranger than frictions The Saudi Monarch's have vested interest and they need the US support for the survival of the monarchy. In any case, Saudi's are the prime accessory to the main roadblock for middleeast peace. During the rise of Islam, Romans were the only superpower on Earth. Did the Muslims kiss the Roman-butts and lick Roman-boots in those days? Doesn't Islam tells us to always depend on Allah, no matter how powerful the emperors and the tyrants are? We have been sarcastic about the powerful President Bush, but we don't seem to have moral courage to criticize the House of Sauds and expose Saudi hypocrisy.!!!!! |
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