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Remembering Aquino Braganca (b. 6 April 1924), who fought for freedom
of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa. An online tribute
http://aquinobraganca.wordpress.com/ (includes many historical
references, some photographs and documents)
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Please do not move the goal post.
What is under discussion here is not Saudi Arabia's freedom of
religion but rather the Persian Gulf's setting up of restricted
standards of non-Islamic faith practice and abiding by those
standards.
No to mention that Saudi Arabia the country and custodian of Sunni
Islam's two most holy places is a studied exception to the rest of the
much more liberal Persian Gulf countries. Even so, the report does not
have any mention of persecution of non-Islamic faiths by Saudi Arabia.
And I repeat, since you have sidestepped the issue:
India is a secular and democratic country, the Persian Gulf states are not.
I leave it to the readers to judge who wears the mantle of hypocrisy
in the matter of persecution of minorities
Roland.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> wrote:
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> As for the comical defense below of the mythical protection of other
> religions and justice in theocratic states of the Persian Gulf, here is a
> link to what Human Rights Watch says about the situation in Saudi Arabia
> regarding "Freedom of Religion and Religious Discrimination", "Freedom of
> Expression", "Women's Rights", "Migrant Worker Rights" and "Arbitrary
> Detention and Unfair Trials":
