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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http://aquinobraganca.wordpress.com/ (includes many historical
references, some photographs and documents)
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Roland Francis wrote:
>
>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
>
It is disheartening to see that anybody could be so soured against and
contemptuous of his own native democratic country as to lose all perspective in
trashing it, while finding excuses to defend a theocratic state whose official
policy is to discriminate against other religions and religious sects. Even
this contrived defense can be easily shown to be hollow. Here is a list of
countries ranked in order of how badly they persecute Christians:
Please note that Saudi Arabia is at the top of this list, second only to North
Korea.
Cheers,
Santosh
