Austrian bishops slam Saudi cleric call to destroy churches

[FarCenter]

Austria's bishops on Friday condemned comments by Saudi Arabia's top cleric calling for the destruction of all churches in the Arab peninsula, and urged Muslim leaders to denounce his words.

In recent comments to Kuwaiti parliamentarians, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh said it was not only forbidden to build new churches on the Arab Peninsula but that all existing ones in the region should also be razed to the ground "as there are too many," the Austrian Catholic news agency Kathpress reported.

Such comments were "entirely unacceptable and incomprehensible," the Austrian Roman Catholic bishops said Friday.

"We demand an official explanation and an unambiguous affirmation of the right of churches and Christians to exist in this region," they said, calling for religious freedom to be respected there as it was elsewhere.

http://www.france24.com/en/20120323-austrian-bishops-slam-saudi-cleric-call-destroy-churches

Why are we enemies of Iran and friends with Saudi Arabia?

[Robeysays]

1. that's been a good question since 2001. nt

[fightforfreedom123]

2. Absolutely!

"We demand an official explanation and an unambiguous affirmation of the right of churches and Christians to exist in this region,"

"Are you a member of the Christian Taliban? F*CK You!"