Saudi Mufti: Destroy Churches in Middle East – No International Protests
March 23, 2012
www.zoa.org

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to blood-curdling
words spoken by the Saudi Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, who
declared recently that is necessary to destroy all the churches of the
region. In answer to a question from a Kuwaiti delegation regarding an
announcement
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/kuwaiti-mps-call-for-ban-on-construction-of-churches-445971.html
last month by a Member of Kuwaiti legislature, Osama Al-Munawer, that he
plans to submit a draft law calling for the removal of all churches in
Kuwait, the Saudi Grand Mufti “stressed that Kuwait was a part of the
Arabian Peninsula, and therefore it is necessary to destroy all churches in
it.”

The Saudi Grand Mufti’s ruling follows the hadith [sayings attributed to
Muhammad], who is said to have declared on his deathbed that “There are not
to be two religions in the [Arabian] Peninsula,” which has always been
interpreted to mean that only Islam can be practiced in the region (‘Raymond
Ibrahim: Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for "Destruction of All Churches in Region,’
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/raymond-ibrahim-saudi-grand-mufti-calls-for-destruction-of-all-churches-in-region.html
Jihad Watch blog, March 14, 2012).

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “It is amazing and a commentary
on our times that the senior Muslim cleric, in the land that gave birth to
Islam and in the country that has custody of the two main Muslim holy sites
of Mecca and Medina, can call for the demolition of churches without this
vicious statement attracting any significant international condemnation or
protest.

“Imagine what would occur if the Pope called for the demolition of all
mosques in Italy, or if the Chief Rabbi in Israel made a similar call in
respect of mosques in Israel. The protests would be huge, furious and
immediate. Nor would the matter die away in a week or two. Yet, when the
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia calls for churches to be demolished - deafening
silence. And this, despite the routine frequency of attacks already upon
churches and Christians across the Middle East (with the exception of
Israel), something which the Grand Mufti’s call can only serve to increase.

“We call upon the Obama Administration to publicly condemn the words of the
Saudi Grand Mufti.”