Saudi textbooks, religious freedom & why it matters

LadyEagle · Sep 23, 2008

Saudi textbooks, religious freedom and why it matters
James A. Smith Sr.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--A Saudi man cut out his daughter's tongue and then burned her to death as punishment for her conversion from Islam to Christianity.

That religious freedom does not exist in the Muslim Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is regrettably not a surprise. Tragically, murdering converts to Christianity is not uncommon in Saudi Arabia.

What makes this case so revealing is that the girl's father is an employee of Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice -- the very organ of the government that enforces the nation's absolute prohibition of Christianity and conversion to Christianity.

Beyond the fact that Christians are obligated to support each other in adversity and that Christians in America must be concerned for the well-being of others, and beyond the fact that Baptists are among the first champions of religious freedom for all, understanding that true religion is uncoerced, this case should matter to Christians around the world because Saudi Arabia is exporting the form of radical Islam that teaches this sort of behavior in textbooks for Muslim schools across the globe, including America.

International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org), an organization that advocates for the persecuted church, reported the case of the Saudi father murdering his daughter for conversion to Christianity on Aug. 13. ICC relied upon an account by Gulf News, which did not identify the man or when the crime occurred, other than that it happened recently. The girl came to faith in Christ as a result of the Internet and her father is supposedly in custody, according to Gulf News.
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ReformedBaptist · Sep 24, 2008

There seems to be this sort of persecution in many, many places. May the Lord strengthen His people, turn the wicked from their evil, and bring judgment on the ungodly.

billwald · Sep 24, 2008

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