RT.com The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed. The statement prompted anger and dismay from Christians throughout the Middle East. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah made the controversial statement in a response to a question from a Kuwaiti NGO delegation. A Kuwaiti parliamentarian had called for a ban on … [Read more...]
Saudi Grand Mufti: ‘Destroy All Churches’
by Rachel Hirshfeld Israel National News he Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah declared, last Monday, that it is "necessary to destroy all the churches of the region," Raymond Ibrahim ofJihad Watch reported in an article published in the Middle East Forum, on March 14th. "The Sheikh based his proclamation on the famous tradition, or hadith, wherein … [Read more...]
Muslim Persecution of Christians: February, 2012
Originally published by the Stonegate Institute Half of Iraq's indigenous Christians are gone due to the unleashed forces of jihad, many of them fleeing to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack by al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians are experiencing a level of persecution unprecedented in the nation's modern history. … [Read more...]
Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for “Destruction of All Churches in Region”
Translations of this item: Dutch According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is "necessary to destroy all the churches of the region." The Grand Mufti made his assertion in response to a question posed by a delegation from Kuwait, where a parliament member … [Read more...]
Egyptian Presidential Candidate: ‘I am the Mahdi’
by Raymond Ibrahim • Mar 13, 2012 at 2:07 pm Cross-posted from Jihad Watch According to today's edition of Egypt's Al-Wafd, a popular political website, the latest candidate for the Egyptian presidency, Muhammad Muhammad Musa, claims he is the hidden Mahdi -- a savior figure in Islamic eschatology. After exiting from the Supreme Council for Elections, Musa said that "he is … [Read more...]