Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Answering Muslims, 13 May 2013



Answering Muslims


Three Jihadists Arrested in Plot to Blow Up U.S. Embassy in Cairo

Posted: 13 May 2013 06:16 AM PDT

Maybe they weren't invited to President Obama's Cairo speech, so they may not have heard that everything is sunshine and roses between Islam and the West.

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities and against a foreign embassy, the interior minister said Saturday.

A Western official said the Egyptians had privately identified the embassy as the United States Embassy in Cairo.

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said at a news conference that the suspects had been arrested with 22 pounds of explosive materials and instructions on how to make bombs and build rockets and model airplanes to use in the attacks.

He said the suspects were "on the verge" of attacking an embassy when they were arrested.

He did not identify the embassy, but Egyptian officials have told their American counterparts that the United States Embassy was a target, a Western diplomat said. (
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Saudi Arabia Sentences Two Men to Prison, Lashes in Conversion Case

Posted: 13 May 2013 04:43 AM PDT

In the West, critics of Sharia are called hate-mongers, bigots, and Islamophobes for daring to question Muhammad's teachings. In the heart of the Muslim world, people are being brutally lashed and jail for daring to think that they have human rights. Why are Westerners so quick to condemn critics for intolerance, but so slow to condemn those who are actually intolerant?

Saudi Arabia--A Saudi court jailed a Lebanese man for six years and sentenced him to 300 lashes after convicting him of encouraging a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity, local dailies reported Sunday.

The same court sentenced a Saudi man convicted in the same case to two years in prison and 200 lashes for having helped the young woman flee the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, local daily Al-Watan said.

A court delivered the verdict in Khobar in the kingdom's east, where the woman and the two accused worked for an insurance company.

The July 2012 case caused a stir in Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict version of Islamic Sharia law that stipulates Muslims who convert to another religion must be sentenced to death.

The woman, known only as "the girl of Khobar", was granted refuge in Sweden where she lives under the protection of unspecified NGOs, according to local press reports.

She had appeared in a YouTube video last year in which she announced that she had chosen to convert to Christianity.

Her family's lawyer Hmood al-Khalidi said he was "satisfied with the verdict," according to the press.

Both men, who could also be prosecuted over other charges including corruption and forging official documents that allowed the woman to leave the country without her family's agreement, will appeal.

Saudi women are banned from travelling without their guardians' permission. (
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