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[WorldWide Religious News] WorldWide Religious News-Rare Shiite protests in Sunni-led Saudi ...: Shiites say members of the religious police who maintain an office at the al-Baqee Cemetery filmed female pilgrims and refused to hand over the tapes or destroy them. A Saudi official blamed Shiite pilgrims for the trouble, accusing them of performing religious rituals offensive to other worshippers and authorities at the cemetery.

[KOHM FM] Religion Roundup : KOHM FM: Relations are tense between Saudi Arabia’s majority Sunnis and the Shiites, who make up a small minority of the country’s 22 million people. Shiites, who are considered infidels under the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam widely followed in the kingdom, routinely complain of discrimination.

[Infidels Unite] Infidels Unite: Shiite pilgrims clash with Saudi police at cemetery: Shiites, who are considered infidels under the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam widely followed in the kingdom, routinely complain of discrimination. Outspoken Shiite critics have been jailed, and many Shiites claim to have been banned from such jobs as the religious police and teaching religion classes.

[Daily Religious] Rare Shi'ite protests break out in eastern Saudi Arabia ...: By AP Members of Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite minority have held protests that included anti-government slogans rarely heard in public, escalating tensions with authorities sparked by a dispute at a cemetery in Islam's second holiest city. …

[Mumbai Shia News] Mumbai Shia News: A Letter to King Abdullah by a Shia Cleric: In his appeal, al-Saffar said the treatment of Shiite visitors near the al-Baqee Cemetery violates "Islamic morals and human rights" and the tolerant measures called for by the interfaith conferences hosted by the king a few months ago.

[Oxford Research Group - International Security Monthly Briefings] Oxford Research Group - International Security Monthly Briefings ...: If there is a degree of central organisation behind current developments in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, then it may be possible to pre-empt some actions or at least acquire intelligence on the strategy. If it is more amorphous and is arising more or less spontaneously from current circumstances, as seems to be the case, then responding in the conventional forms of counter-terrorism actions will be a further case of treating the symptoms while failing to address the causes.

[Peace Like A River] Peace Like A River » Cables, dispatches and memoranda: Fars - Two senior Iranian clerics criticized Saudi officials for clashes, which left at least three Shiites killed in the holy city of Medina. In two separate statements, Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi and Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani denounced the Monday attacks on Shia pilgrims outside the Baqi cemetery, press tv reported.

[United Against Islamic Supremacism] Islamic Saudi Academy Research - Part II: Nearly all these matters–Wahhabism and its export, cultural vandalism, harassment by the mutawiyin, discrimination against Shias, radicalization in schools, abuse of extraterritoriality by Saudi diplomats in the United States, oppression of women, absence of public transparency, and rejection of elementary norms of human rights–have been thrust into public awareness since the revelation in 2001 that Saudi Arabia is not a reliable ally of the United States. The forthrightness of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is laudable, but an effective solution to America’s Saudi problem has been unconscionably delayed.

[Crossroads Arabia] Conflict with Shi’a in Medinah? | Crossroads Arabia: Relations are tense between Saudi Arabia’s majority Sunnis and the Shiites, who make up a small portion of the country’s 22 million citizens. Shiites, who are considered infidels under the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam widely followed in the kingdom, routinely complain of discrimination.

[MUSLIM INDIA] Rare Shia protests in eastern Saudi Arabia | MUSLIM INDIA: Two witnesses who took part in Tuesday’s protests told The Associated Press that demonstrators in the poor Shia town of Awwamiya shouted anti-government slogans. They also carried banners using similar language, such as: ”˜Down with the Wahhabi domination’ and ”˜Down with the government,’ according to the witnesses.

[Infidels Unite] Infidels Unite: Infidel Warrior: Infidel Warrior · Shiite pilgrims clash with Saudi police at cemetery · U.S.-Islamic World Forum Includes Global Muslim Brotherhood Leaders; U.S. President Admired · Hirsi Ali tells Vero Beach audience Islam seeks world domination .

[Freedom Bloggers] Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/15/2009: Attacks like those on the Jewish centre in Helsingborg and the Jewish cemetery in Malmö (and similar attacks on Muslim centres, Mosques, and cemeteries) should be condemned. But these actions should not be used to silence or discredit people who oppose and demonstrate against human rights violations, anywhere in the world, especially when these violations are committed by states that claim to be democratic.

[gcmh.org] July 24, 2004: It is reported that former Chess World Champion Bobby Fischer was detained in Japan on July 13, 2004, and may face deportation due to competing in Yugoslavia in 1992. (ABC NEWS) (CNN)

[masteradrian] Today in Palestine! ~ Headlines November 7, 2008 ~: A rally to save the Ma'man Allah Islamic cemetery took to Jerusalem streets on Thursday in protest of the Israeli high court's decision to allow the building of a museum for tolerance on the historic Islamic cemetery in East Jerusalem.

[Infidels Unite] Infidels Unite: Sole Mumbai attacks suspect charged: MEMRI Blog · Muqata · This Ongoing War · Yaacov Lozowick's · « Infidel Warrior | Main | Holocaust row bishop lands in Britain » ... be allowed to compete in world · Hollywood's 'terrorists' get makeover in US film · I Will Defend to the Death Their Right to Silence You · Egyptian Opposition Turns Attention to Jailed Blogger · Sole Mumbai attacks suspect charged · Gaddafi: Israel behind Darfur crisis · Infidel Warrior · Shiite pilgrims clash with Saudi police at cemetery ...

[The Middle East Institute -] The State of Sunni-Shiite Relations in Saudi Arabia and Why it ...: There is good reason to be sceptical about the outcome of the King’s outreach to the Shiite community, but mounting tensions and the King’s interfaith projects have created a state of affairs in which the Saudi Shiite situation cannot be shunned any longer. If a decent modus vivendi is worked out, it can have some impact on Sunni-Shiite relations worldwide thanks to the Kingdom’s special position within the Islamic world, and can reassert the House of Saud over an obscurantist and anachronistic ulama.

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