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Arabia
16 Expats Arrested for Practicing Sufism
2003-09-28
The Kingdom’s religious police have arrested 16 expatriate workers after raiding a house in Sakaka, the capital of the northern Al-Jouf region, for allegedly practicing sufism, Al-Madinah reported yesterday.
Oh, horrors! Not Sufism! Not in a Muslim country!
The paper said officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice entered the house at about 11 p.m. after receiving a tip-off. The officials seized a large number of videocassettes, magazines and other publications which the expatriates were using to spread sufism. Al-Madinah said it learned that the religious police had arrested the leader of the group and confiscated a picture of him which his supporters venerated. The group has lived in the area for several years and has been in the habit of distributing sufi writings among the expatriate community. The commission’s officials have handed the group over to security authorities for further action.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#2  A king, disenchanted with his subjects' dishonesty, decided to force them to tell the truth. When the city gates were opened one morning, gallows had been erected in front of them. A captain of the royal guard stood by.

A herald announced, "Whoever will enter the city must first answer a question which will be put to them by the captain of the guard."

Mullah Nasrudin, who had been waiting outside the gates of the city, stepped forward first.

The captain spoke: "Where are you going? Tell the truth ... the alternative is death by hanging."

"I am going," said Nasrudin, "to be hanged on those gallows."

"I don't believe you!" replied the guard.

Nasrudin calmly replied, "Very well then. If I have told a lie, hang me!"

"But that would make it the truth!" said the confused guard.

"Exactly," said Nasrudin, "your truth."
Posted by: mojo   2003-9-28 10:23:44 PM  

#1  Remember, under Islam, "there is no compulsion in religion".
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-9-28 10:04:01 PM  

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