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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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This year, KSA publicized the Penal Law for Crimes of Terrorism. The new regulation included terrorism provisions used to criminalize and to charge virtually any Saudi citizen or association  that would criticize the Saudi system or Islam. Article one in the latter provisions recited “Atheism and Questioning the Islamic Sharia” as terrorist threats.

“Calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based.”

Declaring atheism as a crime, by the Saudi leaders, matches perfectly the political/religious system of KSA.  However, why did KSA wait until now to take these precautions? Is atheism really threatening  the kingdom?

Although, the Middle East director at Human Rights Watch Joe Stork in an interview to the Chicago Sun-Times, described atheism in Saudi Arabia as a “kind of a non-issue”, the traces of nonbelievers or doubter are spotted.  

In 2012, the Saudi authorities jailed Hamza Kashgari, a Saudi poet and journalist, for two years without trial after sending three tweets containing unconventional thoughts about Prophet Mohamad.

Similar thing happened with the founder of “Free Saudi Liberals" a website that discussed religion in the KSA, Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years jail, 1000 lashes and a fine of 1 million riyals ($266,600).




Fahad Alfahad, Saudi human rights activists, declared to the Global Post: “I know at least six atheists who confirmed that to me. Six or seven years ago, I would not even have heard one person say that. Not even a best friend would confess that to me.”

Despite all these effort to suppress people and rule them by the unquestionable religious power, some people fight and express their free thoughts believing that a day will come when the power of mind conquers the power of religion.
I cannot see how faith could be forced over people by law. Threating people, jailing them, and hurting them physically and psychologically would not protect the kingdom forever. Declaring a low against atheism is a clear confession of its existence and of its capacity to threaten the system.
You can forbid people from talking but you cannot control their ideas.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John F. Kennedy


Rihab

Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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Monday, June 9, 2014

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 أعلنت وكالة رويترز للأنباء أنه مساء أمس 8 حزيران  أقدم المدعو م.ح. على تفجير نفسه وقتل ما يقارب العشرين مؤمناً. هذا التفجير الذي لا يعد الأول من نوعه، يأتي في سلسلة الأعمال الإرهابية التي طالت أغلب شوارع العاصمة اللبنانية. 

هذه المرة أيضاً تبنت جمعية الملحدين الوطنيين هذا الانفجار وأكدت أنها ستستمر في اعمالها الإرهابية حتى القضاء على كل المؤمنين. وورد في بيان الجمعية ما يلي:
" نحن جمعية الملحدين، وباسم كل الملحدين اللبنانيين نؤكد عدم رغبتنا في العيش مع جماعة من المؤمنين وإن استمرار وجود هذه الفئة من البشر سيؤدي عاجلاً إلى انتهاء الفصيلة البشرية.
على المؤمنين أن يعرفوا أن زمنهم قد انتهى وأننا سنطبق كل كلمة من كلمات الدستور الجديد. لاتزال الفرصة امامكم للارتداد عن الخطأ...
 أعلنوا تراجعكم عن معتقداتكم ولكم المغفرة"

 أما المؤمنون فهم حتى هذا التاريخ لم ينزلقوا بعد في لعبة الرد على الملحدين ولا تزال جمعياتهم تسعى جاهدةً لتجنب ثقافة العنف. وقد أكد الناطق الرسمي باسم المؤمنين " اننا سنسعى جاهداً لتجنب لغة العنف والحد من الخسائر البشرية" وفي رسالةٍ وجهها الى الملحدين أعرب عن حزنه الشديد ودعاهم الى حوار وطني لحل كل هذه المشاكل والأزمات.  

 وقد وضعت الأحداث الأخيرة الملحدين المعتدلين في موقفٍ حرج إذ أنه أصبح من الصعب جداً التفريق بين المتطرفين وغيرهم وبدأت هوةٌ من النفور تولد بين أبناء هذا الوطن.

الكل يعرف في قرارة نفسه أنه من الصعب جداً العيش في هذه الظروف وأن هذه الأعمال الإرهابية لا بد أن تستفز الطرف الأخر وأن حرباً طائفية جديدةً على الأبواب. لكن المشكلة الأساسية هي أن السلطة الفعلية في هذا البلد هي بيد رجال الإلحاد، وأن السياسيين رغم اصرارهم على احترمهم للمواطنية في العلن إلا أن اغلبهم هم سماسرة أموال، وسلاحٍ، ويأتي الإلحاد المتطرف في خدمتهم!

منذ اعوام والأزمات تتفاقم، حروبنا الطائفية تزداد صعوبةً وقسوة فهل نحن أمام حربٍ أهليةٍ جديدة؟



Rihab

PS: This article was inspired from The Lapine article : Atheist Suicide Bomber Kills Eighteen Agnostics. 


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Posted on Monday, June 09, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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Monday, May 12, 2014

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Shortly after KSA had criticized Norway‘s human right, Raif Badawi the founder of “Free Saudi Liberals" a website that discussed religion in the KSA was sentenced to 10 years jail , 1000 lashes and a fine of 1 million riyals ($266,600).


His website included critical articles of senior religious figures such as Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, according to Human Rights Watch. Raif Badawi was accused first by apostasy a crime which lead to death sentence. Later on, he was cleared of this charge and accused of "insulting Islam" .

In April, KSA went further by introducing “a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to Human Rights Watch” and “clamped down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could harm public order”.


I do not want to favor atheism over religion, but the way KSA saw by the first a danger that may tear down the great kingdom seems very logical to me. A country built on the power of religion and the illusion of some expired rules cannot stand for a long time while the wind of change is blowing in its corridors. These humble acts of revolution are a great evidence of a will of change and a desire to end a long life of dictatorship.

We live in a time when criticizing a prophet (with all my respect) is considered more dangerous than violating disastrously  human rights. I wonder if a day will come when Humanity is more evaluated than religion!


Rihab 

Posted on Monday, May 12, 2014 by ChiTikTik

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