Is It Dhimmitude If British Companies Ban Their Employees From Being Christian To Please The Saudis?

By
Omri Ceren
– December 27, 2006Posted in: Britain, Saudi Arabia

This got all kinds of play last week, but:

An air stewardess is claiming religious discrimination against an airline which she says banned her from taking the Bible to Saudi Arabia. The stewardess has been told by BMI that it is against the law of the insular Middle Eastern country to bring in religious books other than the Koran. The woman, who is understood to be a committed Christian, takes her bible everywhere she goes and is now set to take the airline to an industrial tribunal claiming discrimination on religious grounds.

Imagine what would happen if a Muslim was told that he couldn’t carry the Koran into Britain because it contradicts Anglicanism. The cries of “Islamophobia” would be deafening. Or if a Muslim was told that he couldn’t carry the Koran into Israel because it contradicts Judaism. The cries of “apartheid” would be similarly raucous.

But a Christian can’t carry a Bible into Saudi Arabia, and everybody just kind of shrugs and says “well what do you expect – they’re extremist Muslims”. And we have no problem in theory with this answer, since it’s more or less true – Saudi Arabia is politically Islamic, and people apparently just kind of expect them to discriminate against Christians and Jews.

Previously: It Turns Out, There IS A Way To Read the Koran Non-Peacefully, OneJerusalem.org Conference Call: Robert Spencer, Hey Gals, Check It Out – Neanderthals Literally More Progressive Than Saudi Clerics

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