In Christian dominating countries, Muslims are allowed to practice their faith?

Question

But do Christians get the same treatment? I heard Christians are not allowed Bible group studies in Saudi? Is this true?

Answer 1

In the USA, Freedom of Religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right.
You are correct about Saudi Arabia and Iran. Afghanistan was also like that under the Taliban.

Answer 2

They are in Italy. There is even talk of allowing them an hour to teach the Koran in schools just as Catholicism has it's hour. And most of the U.S. is Christian but everyone has the right to their faith. I beleive England is the same.

Cardinal Renato Martino -- the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Vatican's former ambassador to the United Nations -- said that the Italian government should allow the Koran to be taught during the hour mandated for Catholic religious instruction.



"If there are 100 Muslim children in a school, I don't see why they shouldn't be taught their religion," Martino said in a press conference March 9. "If we said 'no' until we saw equivalent treatment for the Christian minorities in Muslim countries, I would say that we were placing ourselves on their

Answer 3

Depends on the Country. Most of them are pretty extreme, never really ever got over the Crusades or from being screwed over by every world power since then. I suppose being occupied by England, Russia, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey and even France would kind of leave a mark on the collective psyche. Oddly the most extreme country is the USA's biggest Arab ally, namely Saudi Arabia. The next is Iran, Which was the partner in Bush Daddy's Iran Contra scandal in the eighties. strange

Answer 4

So you are telling me that if I was to go to Cordoba, Spain (which was ruled by the Muslims for 700 years) and go to the church (which was a built as a Mosque but later converted into a church) I can call the prayer and just pray???

I will most likely be arrested and thrown in the jail for some time.

Let's see, can I pray in school?
NO

Can I take time off from school to pray five times a day?
NO

Can I take breaks from my job to pray?
NO

Do I get time off for the Friday prayer (which is equivalent of going to Church on Sunday)?
NO

Can I safely board a plane if I have a beard?
NO

If I was a woman, can I wear a headscarf in school?
NO

If I was a woman, can I wear a headscarf at my job?
NO

Do I get a month of for the month of Ramadan because Christians get time off from Christmas?
NO

Do I get days off for two Eids (like Christmas and Easter)?
NO

Just like Muslims feel apprehension in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims feel the apprehension in Muslim countries.

Isn't it a wonder how everyone just has to look at the worst from the other side? Everybody (including the asker) said things about Saudi Arabia not letting hold Bible study groups or banning non-Muslims from going to Mecca. But nobody said anything about countries like Pakistan (which is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan) actually having a quota in the representative for the government, on all levels. It is actually required that a certain amount of officials elected for the parliament be women, christians, etc.

Sooooo, I say yes, Christians do get the same treatment.

And don't say anything about Saudi Arabia, they do that to EVERYONE, not just christians. There are plenty of sects of Islam which face the same apprehension when going to Saudi Arabia.

Answer 5

It's probably true. Maybe you heard the story about the man in Afghanistan who was threatened with execution because he was found to own a Christian Bible. The man ended up getting exiled to France or some European nation, after much pressure for the international community. It isn't known how many Christians and Jews are executed in Muslim countries.

Answer 6

In countries ruled by Islamic law, all other religions are forbidden. It is also death to any muslim who converts from Islam to another religion. Muslims seem to think that Islam is the only true religion. That is why they haven't progressed in 600 years. Their backward thinking is a violation of all the teachings of Muhammad. Muhammad recognized Christians and Jews as part of his brotherhood, but modern day Islam has so perverted the words and intent of Muhammad that the religion is a shadow of what it used to be.

Answer 7

yes christians are allowed and do practice their faith in muslim countries... u cannot just put saudi arabia as an example and make a judgement from there.. there are many other muslim countries in the middle east, full of muslims, christians,..etc... and each practice their own faith..

Answer 8

Some countries are more open and tolerant in general about different things. In the U.S. Christian ways have gotten top priority and others are put behind it, and visa-verse in countries that have other religions that originated in them. It gets old to hear about Christians being made into the poor little victims...

Answer 9

I think they are just not allowed to preach and convert but it could be more... Like the women who were going to be executed in Afgahnistan for preaching (wonder what came of them?)
Christian women in Saudi must be covered and will loose the freedoms they have in the west...yet a Muslim woman in the West is free to cover her hair...hmmm.

Answer 10

do not make generalizations. in america, i am not allowed to make my five obligatory prayers at the designated times if i have a job. they will not let me. many jobs will not allow me to wear my religiously mandated attire. in france, girls cannot wear their hijabs (head scarfs) in schools. in germany, they won't let the muslim teachers wear hijab. i do not know about your claim about the saudis, but my point is that this is not solely a christian or muslim problem. both sides are guilty, and we are al wrong.