Is it just me, or does it seem like the whole world is just kind of standing by idly as another islamist "Cleric" unabashedly acknowledges his part in a terror/extortion scheme.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL15398953
RIYADH, March 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this week that two writers should be tried for apostasy and put to death if they do not repent.
Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak was responding to recent articles in al-Riyadh newspaper that questioned the mainstream Sunni Muslim view that adherents of other faiths should be considered unbelievers."Anyone who claims this has refuted Islam and should be tried in order to take it back. If not, he should be killed as an apostate from the religion of Islam," said the fatwa, or religious opinion, dated March 14 and published on Barrak's Web site (albarrak.islamlight.net)."It is disgraceful that articles containing this kind of apostasy should be published in some papers of Saudi Arabia, the land of the two holy shrines," he said, referring to Muslim holy places in Mecca and Medina."The rulers should hold these papers to account ... and all those who took part in the publication should know they were involved in the sin of heretical articles." Barrak, who is thought to be around 75, is the leading authority of Saudi Arabia's hardline version of Sunni Islam, often termed Wahhabism. He said the articles suggested Muslims were free to follow other religions. Rights groups have accused Wahhabism of a xenophobic attitude which demonises other religions.
Declaring that one is explicitly free to make personal decisions about the religious faith they embrace is a hallmark of Western liberal democracy. It’s also a hallmark of an ethical and moral society that does not compel that all must Kowtow to any specific religion. In the free world, we often call forced religion eccentric, hateful and even totalitarian.
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Often we westerners dismiss the savages from these places because it doesn't really affect us in our daily lives, we also prefer to set an example to them of civility in he false hope that they might stop behaving worse than animals. However the savages aren't listening, nor are they learning from our example. It's not at that stage yet, and won't be for a while yet, but a time will come when we will have to start issuing our own fatwas and putting bounties on the heads of those who dare to call for our deaths. If they keep insisting on savagery then we'll have to oblige one day.
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