Happy Birthday, President Reagan

[n david]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

Where we live our 'lil caesars menu is messed up. How bout yours?

I already know SA has western fast food and other western businesses. I don't care about that.

Show me a church building. You claimed Christians are treated well and not abused, and that there are church buildings in SA. Stop talking pictures of license plates and nasty pizza places.

Show me a church.

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by n david

I already know SA has western fast food and other western businesses. I don't care about that.

Show me a church building. You claimed Christians are treated well and not abused, and that there are church buildings in SA. Stop talking pictures of license plates and nasty pizza places.

Show me a church.

I said there are churches. To you, a church building is a church. To me, a group of people who gather and have service it is a church. I told you that these people gather and have church and are not bothered. You tried to imply i do not live here and you tried to imply that I am not telling the truth. You are currently eating your words on both and I am not done with you. Your pews are full of ignorant bigots who do not hold passports yet are experts on matters outside the country. You appear to be one of these. If i am wrong about that YOU send a photo proving you have a passport.

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by n david

I don't believe you're there, I don't believe most of what you claim.

Now prove me wrong.

Based on your stupid comments I already know you don't even have a passport. Proving where you are and when you are there is a click of a snapshot.

Only one place on the entire planet you can get one of these little stamps and you have to drive to get it. As I said the toll is 20 SAR or 2 BD, Riyals or Dinars are OK . Innocently wondering - do you know what a Bahrani Dinar looks like? Do you need a photo?

To get from A to B - you need both of these little stamps. That stamp cannot be ordered, bought, or procured any way except at the booth at the Bahrain Causeway between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. In the case of determining taxes, etc for Americans those stamps are actually legal documents.

PS: To get to the Bahrain Causeway (in this case last month? LOL) you have to drive right past that "dusty old building with an American flag) on the highway that I described to the crazy church lady. The building that, since I was at the Mall on Saturday, I took the time to snap a picture of and was rewarded for my trouble by you running your no-passport-holding ignorant little mouth.

That would be the ONLY American flag flying between Riyadh and Manama. You should feel honored at my trouble.

Look what they sell in vending machines over there. What do you have? "Quick Cash Loans and Gold Buyers?" hahahahahahahahaha.....

[aegsm76]

Wii - why do you have a problem admitting that SA does not permit "official" churches or synagogues?

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Wii - why do you have a problem admitting that SA does not permit "official" churches or synagogues?

If you look up you will see I did not say that. I was asked which would I rather be and which place would I rather live and I answered factually.

Your christian colleagues choose to be here and do quite well here. This is another factual answer.

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Wii - why do you have a problem admitting that SA does not permit "official" churches or synagogues?

Why do you have a problem accepting that there is a multi-national group of christians who hold services here every single Friday morning and who have been holding services here at the same place they always have held them since I stepped foot in this country in 2009 and who have never been bothered while doing it?

6 years now the same people doing the same thing and they were doing it when I got here so this predates my experience.

BUT: I owe you pictures. So your no-passport holding self can live vicariously through their experience and enhance your non-travelled overseas expertise. LOL

[aegsm76]

True.

Are you even somewhat troubled about the persecution of Christians and Jews in the African and Middle East countries?
Which is resulting in people from these religions fleeing?
Fleeing from areas where they have lived peaceably for thousands of years?

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

Why do you have a problem accepting that there is a multi-national group of christians who hold services here every single Friday morning and who have been holding services here at the same place they always have held them since I stepped foot in this country in 2009 and who have never been bothered while doing it?

6 years now the same people doing the same thing and they were doing it when I got here so this predates my experience.

BUT: I owe you pictures. So your no-passport holding self can live vicariously through their experience. LOL

I do not think I asked for pics. Think that was someone else.
I do believe what you say.
I also believe what they are doing, in holding services, is technically illegal.

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

True.

Are you even somewhat troubled about the persecution of Christians and Jews in the African and Middle East countries?
Which is resulting in people from these religions fleeing?
Fleeing from areas where they have lived peaceably for thousands of years?

We were discussing Saudi Arabia and what happens in Saudi Arabia. My views on terrorists have been asked and answered so many times I have lost count.

The answer is in your question. If persecution of Christians and Jews is "Islamic" or based on Islam as Islam is spelled out to practice then there is no possible way that these people could have "peacefully lived in these places for thousands of years" is there. If Islam "does not tolerate this" do you think they were just "discovered" in Islamic countries like Iraq and Syria in 2014 or 2015? How long has it been since these countries were NOT Islamic countries?

[Walks_in_islam]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

I do not think I asked for pics. Think that was someone else.
I do believe what you say.
I also believe what they are doing, in holding services, is technically illegal.

My mistake. Directed at your colleague. He dared me. What can I say?