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Riyadh: A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity. According to sources close to the victim, the religious police member had cut the tongue of the girl and burned her to death following a heated debate on religion. The death of the girl sent shockwaves and websites where the victim used to write with various nick names have allocated special space to mourn her, while some others closed temporarily in protest. According to the Saudi Al Ukhdoud news website, the victim wrote an article on the blog of which she was a member under the nickname “Rania” a few days before her murder. She wrote that her life became an ordeal after her family members grew suspicious about her after a religious discussion with them. She said that her brother found some Christian articles written by her as well as a cross sign on her computer screen. Since then he started to insult her and blamed the internet for pushing her to change her religion. The “Free Copts” website published a message which it received from a friend of the victim, revealing that the killer is in police custody and that he is being investigated for an honour related crime. Saudi religious scholars have frequently warned against the dangers of Christian internet websites and satellite TV channels which attract Muslim youngsters to change their religion. They decreed that watching these channels or browsing these websites which call for conversion to Christianity by various means is against the teachings of Islam.

http://www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi_arabia/10236558.html

I try to be more tolerant of religion, but it is just sooo rotten, the positives are really only fool's paradise stuff, but the negatives, well they are just too many to enumerate.

The sooner this superstitious folly goes the way of the dinosaurs, the better, it has no right to be forced onto young minds, shame on all religious people who proselytise to the young.

Sooooooooo..............I'm wondering when the resident muslims will tell us this is a saudi thing and not a muslim thing and it's all the USA's fault.

*sits back and waits*

jordan484 wrote on Aug 14^th, 2008 at 8:23am:

Sooooooooo..............I'm wondering when the resident muslims will tell us this is a saudi thing and not a muslim thing and it's all the USA's fault. *sits back and waits*

Saudi being financially backed by USA.

;)

I wonder if our resident muslims have done any figures on just how many real muslims there are?
We keep hearing about how many there are, and how fast it is growing, but then we also hear that every muslim who does the wrong thing, is not a "real" muslim.

If doing the wrong thing excludes you from Club Mus, then the numbers claimed must be diminishing rapidly. :o

Muslims themselves can't even seem to agree on what the right things are or what the wrong things are. It seems open to interpretation.....like all religions are. But with our Muslim members it seems anything "western" is bad and anything "muslim" is good.....whatever that may be. I've never known 3 people to be so blinded by their faith and to be such hypocrites, it's truly astounding.

Since Islam does not sanction vigilantism, this event obviously has no relation to Islam.

If I were to bring a news article of an Australian taking the law into their own hands, would you defend it as part of Australian Democratic belief? I doubt it, so don't expect the same.

"Australian" isn't a religion.

And if "Australian's" had a history of killing their children for "honour" or "apostasy"  then I'd be just as vocal about how barbaric they were being.

abu_rashid wrote on Aug 14^th, 2008 at 12:24pm:

Since Islam does not sanction vigilantism, this event obviously has no relation to Islam.

If someone leaves Islam is it ok to kill with without using vigilantism?