Why are non-muslims second class citizens in muslim countries? Is this right?

Question

Just fo to Saudi Arabia or any Middle Eastern muslim country except Lebanon or Turkey and you will see what it means to be a second class citizen.

homie, I think you are incorrect. In UK, every citizen has exactly the same rights iunder the law. In Saudi Arabia and Iran even in northern nigeria different laws apply to different people on the basis of religion.

Answer 1

Why don't you write to the embassies of those countries? How should we know? . It's not right if they do. No one should be discriminated against just cause they are of a certain faith. American Muslims are taken out of their homes locked up for lengthy periods of time , interrogated, isolated, and released without charges, if this happen in the "best " country in the world. I can't imagine what happens elsewhere in the world.

From Human Rights Watch:

allowing the September 11 attacks, the Justice Department held the 70 men—all but one Muslim—under a narrow federal law that permits the arrest and brief detention of “material witnesses” who have important information about a crime, if they might otherwise flee to avoid testifying before a grand jury or in court. Although federal officials suspected the men of involvement in terrorism, they held them as material witnesses, not criminal suspects.

Almost half of the witnesses were never brought before a grand jury or court to testify. The U.S. government has apologized to 13 for wrongfully detaining them. Only a handful were ever charged with crimes related to terrorism.

“These men were victims of a Justice Department that was willing to do an end run around the law,” said Jamie Fellner, director of Human Rights Watch’s U.S. Program. “Criminal suspects are treated better than these material witnesses were.”


“Haste, incompetence and prejudice played a role in these detentions,” said Anjana Malhotra, the report’s author and Aryeh Neier fellow at Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union. “Muslim men were arrested for little more than attending the same mosque as a September 11 hijacker or owning a box-cutter.”


http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/27/usdom11213.htm
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/17616prs20050627.html

Answer 2

Because they believe the wrong thing - according to the mohommedans. It's neither right or wrong. It's up to the people of a country to decide tne rules for that country, forget all the cr@p about human rights - there's no such thing in reality. Rights only exist when the local society thinks it's a good idea. eg. In England several hundred years ago, it was the "Right" of a gentleman to wear a sword. Now he gets arrested for carrying an offensive weapon.
Anyway, if they didn't make these people 2nd class citizens (or less) their own people might go off and convert. think of that from the mullahs and ayatollahs point of view. There go the jobs for life boys :-)

Answer 3

Each country makes its own laws. Would it be right to expect all nations to follow only your laws? Who would set the standard? What if if was decreed that all laws, all over the world would be exactly the same as Singapore laws? Then gum chewing would be illegal. Australian laws? Then driving on the right side of the road would be illegal. Russian laws? Then anyone arrested is presumed guilty, until proven innocent.

People enact laws approprate to themselves.

People have responded as to how horrible and unfair the laws in Muslim countries are have forgotten that this nation, having freed the slaves in the middle 1800s, did not allow blacks (or women) complete civil rights until about 100 years later.

By the way, lynchings still occur in the United States. Look to our own fanatics before you are so ready to condemn another nations'.

Answer 4

Doesn't sound right to me because i'm an Indian-Muslim living in South Africa and last year i visited Dubai. I noticed that non-Arab people were treated like 2nd class citizens in that country (i.e. laws against ownership of property, etc), but these laws are similar to the laws of numerous countries (incl South Africa).

I think you might be mistaking general prejudice against non-muslims or non-Arabs for actual law. I mean, i'm muslim and i went to a muslim country and YET i was treated very poorly by the locals (anyone ever heard of "please" or "thank you" there???).

Answer 5

Did you just get here? where have you been?
Non-Muslims are beheaded in Muslim countries. It is against the law. some moderately brutal allow a few Christians. A bible owner is shot or beheaded. Only the quaran is acceptable reading material. Only Isreal actually allows Christians, Jews and Muslims. Lebannon is supose to have freedom of religion but Hezbollah is rapidly getting that stopped. Christians and jews mysteriously just die. Saudi's kill them outright. No mystery there. Pakistan is probably the most tolerant next to Israel. Now there they might be just second class citizens.

Answer 6

because dictators recieve morol and financial support off countries like usa for example in somalia, afghanistan war lords are being funded who commit crimes against civillians whereas real muslim leaders are being blamed for this. Same case is happening in most other countries where america sticks its pig like nose in where its not wanted or needed. when the serbs attacked the kosovans/bosnians/albanians the first thing the americans did when they got there was search bosnian houses for weapons so that there was absoloutly no way they could resist the massacres they were facing (serb soldiers laughing and killing young children caught on tape) then after huge srebninece (however you spell it) massacre in which thousands upon thousands were tortured raped and killed took place (civillians which were told they were safe under protection) after a while they asked for it to stop when like so much damage was done. the un means nothing also...

Answer 7

I have no doubt that that is the case, different story over here in the UK though. We have to bite our tongues and bend to accomodate them or the race card is shown.

Answer 8

Does Christianity regard Islam as a threat? Isn't there enough room in the world for both religions? Neither is even close to perfection; both are riddled with faults.

Answer 9

If that's true why are they not treated as second class here in the UK, I'll tell you why we put up with it, because it's the British way, what a load of crap, but that's the way a lot will see it

Answer 10

i have worked in merchant navy for 5 years have been to many countries. no such thing exists its just another way of christian apologists to feel good about their faith