The Jews in Istanbul were saved by Turkey during the Inquisition
championed by your holy Jesuit Loyola. How many heads of Muslims were
cut off because they did not invoke the Trinity?
In the United States of America, how many American Indians were
slaughtered (hundred million) and how many black Americans were
lynched?
In the United States of America a man like me will lose an election
because of the Jewish/Israeli Lobby.
What are you talking about mr. Zionist?
On May 11, 9:12=A0am, "gene" <ge...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> He's lucky he wasn't sentenced to death for converting.
>
> "Sir John Howard" <sirjohnhow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
messagenews:97d04948-=
266e-49c3-b175-7eaa3e8a4984@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Police pressure convert to return to Islam during =91illegal=92 five-day
> detention.
>
> ALGIERS, Algeria, May 9 (Compass Direct News) =96 An Algerian Christian
> detained five days for carrying a Bible and personal Bible study books
> was handed a 300-euro (US$460) fine and a one-year suspended prison
> sentence last week, an Algerian church leader said.
>
> Last Tuesday (April 29) a court in Djilfa, 150 miles south of Algiers,
> charged the 33-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity with =93printing,
> storing and distributing=94 illegal religious material. A written copy
> of the verdict has yet to be issued.
>
> The Protestant, who requested anonymity for security reasons, told
> fellow Christians in his home city of Tiaret that police pressured him
> to return to Islam while in custody.
>
> The conviction is the latest in a wave of detentions and court cases
> against Algeria=92s Protestants and Catholics. Since January police and
> provincial officials have ordered the closure of up to half of the
> country=92s 50 estimated Protestant congregations.
>
> Officials in several instances have cited a February 2006 law
> governing the wor****p of non-Muslims. Clarified by subsequent decrees
> in 2007, the law restricts most religious meetings to approved places
> of wor****p and forbids any attempt to =93shake the faith of a Muslim.=94
>
> On the morning of April 25, the Tiaret resident and eight-year convert
> to Christianity was stopped at a police roadblock in the vicinity of
> Djilfa while riding in a shared taxi. Officials took the convert into
> custody upon finding a Bible and several religious study books in his
> luggage.
>
> A Christian from Tiaret told Compass that Djilfa police appeared to
> have previous knowledge of the Protestant=92s Christian connections.
> Officers refused to let the convert call friends to let them know of
> his detention, naming a church member in Tiaret whom they claimed he
> would contact.
>
> =93We will call your family for you,=94 the officials said, according to
> the Christian source from Tiaret.
>
> According to one Algerian human rights lawyer, police violated the
> convert=92s rights by refusing him the telephone call.
>
> =93Any detained person has the right to call his family,=94 said the
> lawyer, who requested anonymity.
>
> A leader from the Protestant Church of Algeria, an umbrella
> association for mainline and evangelical congregations, said that
> Christians remained unaware of the detainee=92s location for several
> days.
>
> Precarious Position
>
> The Christian source in Tiaret said that Djilfa police verbally
> attacked the convert because of his faith during his five-day
> detention at city=92s police station.
>
> =93They did not hit him, but they tried to convert him back to Islam,=94
> he said.
>
> Under Algerian law, police can detain a suspect up to 48 hours before
> bringing him before a state prosecutor, the human rights lawyer told
> Compass.
>
> =93It is not legal for them to hold him for five days,=94 said the
lawyer,=
> who clarified that any detention between 24 and 48 hours had to be
> approved by a state prosecutor.
>
> After five days in Djilfa=92s main police station, the Christian was
> brought before a state prosecutor and then a Djilfa judge. According
> to the convert, the judge convicted him of =93printing, storing and
> distributing=94 illegal religious literature, though the charge remains
> uncertain until a written verdict is issued.
>
> Before releasing him, the judge told the convert he would be given a
> 300 euro fine and a one-year suspended sentence.
>
> According to the Tiaret Christian, the convert received the
=93printing=94=
> charge because he was traveling with a computer printer in his
> possession. The convert has yet to receive a written copy of the
> verdict, though observers said this was common in Algeria, as court
> verdicts are normally sent by mail following a ruling.
>
> Because the sentence is suspended, the convert will only have to do
> jail time if convicted of another crime. But the Tiaret Christian said
> that the verdict constituted an ongoing threat to the Christian.
>
> =93A policeman could bring false accusations against him, that he gave
> one of them a Bible, and he would be thrown in jail,=94 the friend said.
>
> Christians in Tiaret re****ted two separate instances in which
> undercover police officers pretended to be interested in Christianity
> and then detained Protestants for giving them Bibles.
>
> Charges were thrown out for the first incident in March. In the second
> case a Tiaret court handed a Christian a two-year suspended sentence
> and a 100,000-dinar (US$1,540) fine on April 2. The written verdict
> was delivered on April 9.
>
> At least five Christians from Tiaret have been detained or tried for
> Christian activities since January 2008.
>
> According to unconfirmed re****ts, Tiaret police detained six more
> Christians today.
>
> Christians constitute a tiny minority of Algeria=92s population of 33
> million. Catholics count several thousand congregants, mostly
> expatriates, while numbers for Protestants are less certain.
>
> Conservative estimates place the number of Protestants at 10,000,
> though evangelism via satellite TV has re****tedly led to a large
> number of isolated conversions unaccounted for in church attendance
> figures.
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