...There are at least 3.5 million Christians living in the Arabian Peninsula. They are mainly workers from India and the Philippines, but also expatriates from Western countries and the Levant.
The Saudi monarchy already bans churches and criminalizes any non-Muslim worship practice on its territory (except in special areas reserved for Westerners). Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaikh released this religious decree to outbid the new Constitution of Kuwait, which prohibits the construction of churches in the country. The Saudi Grand Mufti’s fatwa was addressed to the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain and especially Yemen, where the Saudi army is deployed.
The two Wahhabi states, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Emirate of Qatar, intend to extend their model of religious dictatorship to the rest of the Arab world. It’s officially at their request that Westerners overthrew the secular governments of Iraq and Libya and are currently trying to do so in Syria.
Muslim religious leaders gathered at the Ahl al-Bait World Assembly in Iran have also condemned the fatwa. According to them, Wahhabi muftis and and Saudi Salafists are not representative of Islam and have no legitimacy to issue such decrees...
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