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| Saudi Arabia demands preachers tone down their sermons |
| 2002-12-10 |
| Arab News The Islamic Affairs Ministry in Saudi Arabia has reminded preachers not to use mosques as political platforms, saying that fiery sermons could negatively influence worshipers. The ministry has also revived a 20-year ban on unauthorized people preaching at mosques, the Associated Press reported quoting Ibrahim Al-Netif, head of the department of mosque affairs at the ministry. "We don’t want mosques to become a platform for political speeches that could promote wrong ideas and provoke peoples feelings", Al-Netif said yesterday. "We need sermons that teach people the principles of their religion". I wonder if that has anything to do with stuff like this: The Saudi Sheikh Muhammad bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-'Arifi, imam of the mosque of King Fahd Defense Academy, discussed this Hadith in an article posted on the Kalemat website. Under the headline "Don't be sad, Allah is with us," the article read: "... We will control the land of the Vatican; we will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. Yes, the Christians, who carve crosses on the breasts of the Muslims in Kosovo – and before then in Bosnia, and before then in many places in the world – will yet pay us the Jiziya [poll tax paid by non-Muslims under Muslim rule], in humiliation, or they will convert to Islam..."Or maybe they've noticed that we've noticed that their preachers seem to favor killing people and enslaving their wives. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |