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The Team Said The Minute’s Silence Was Not In Keeping With Saudi Culture.
The Saudi Arabia national football team has been labeled “disgraceful” after it refused to take part in a minute’s silence for the victims of the recent terror attacks in England.
Shortly before the team’s World Cup qualifier match against Australia on Thursday evening at the Adelaide Oval, the stadium announcer called for a minute’s silence. The Australian national team linked arms at the halfway line, only for the Saudis to walk around separately in their own half.
A statement released by Football Federation Australia after the game said Saudi officials had agreed to let the minute’s silence go ahead, but also said that the tradition was “not in keeping with Saudi culture”.
“Both the AFC and the Saudi team agreed that the minute of silence could be held. The FFA was further advised by Saudi team officials that this tradition was not in keeping with Saudi culture and they would move to their side of the field and respect our custom whilst taking their own positions on the field,” said the statement.
Labor senator Anthony Albonese called the scenes a “disgraceful lack of respect” on the Today show on Friday morning.
“That was a disgraceful lack of respect not just for the two Australians killed, one of whom was a young South Australians, all of those victims of that terror attack in London,” he said.
“There is no excuse here. This isn’t about culture, this is about a lack of respect. I thought it was disgraceful.”
The incident caused a huge reaction on social media.
Islamic Sheikh: ‘In Their Eyes The Attackers Are Martyrs’
An Islamic imam has suggested the Saudi Arabianteam refused to take part in a minute’s silence for theLondon terrorvictims because they believe ‘it is not a sin for a Muslim to kill a non-believer’.
Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi says it is a ‘lie’ to say the Muslim culture does not remember the dead with a moment of silence, and instead argues the football team did not partake in the mourning because they stand with the jihadist men.
‘They did not stop for a moment of silence because according to Wahhabi Islam – which governs Saudi Arabia – it is not wrong or a sin for a Muslim to kill a non-Muslim,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
Pakistani Christians in Sindh province are demanding justice after a 35-year-old sanitation worker died, having been exposed to toxic sewage and refused medical care by Muslim doctors who refused to touch his “unclean” body during Ramadan.
The Vermont senator (who elected this wicked dude?) was criticized for yelling at Trump’s choice for Management and Budget over his beliefs and applying an unconstitutional “religious test” for public office
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You know that old communist cunt would never ask a Muslim those same questions in regards to their theology.
Bernie Sanders is a demon from the pit of hell. You saw the demon come out after that man reiterated that he’s a Christian.
That smug arrogant godless communist A-hole will REALLY be in for a surprise when he stands before the throne.
And I think it’s VERY hypocritical of this snarky bastard that he pick on a Christian and says that this man’s beliefs are not “what this country is supposed to be about”, while MUSLIMS are chopping off heads, blowing people up, burning people alive, mutilating women, all over the world. And Sanders wants THEM (and THEIR beliefs) respected, and more of them IMPORTED, as if THEIR beliefs (and Sharia Law) are what this country is supposed to be about.
the man is demon possessed. And NOTHING pisses off a demon more that the word Christian.
Liberals are SICK… SICK… SICK.
Can you IMAGINE having THAT thing as president? Bernie showed his true anti Christian hate face. Not pretty, crazy old man
He should sue Bernie Sanders. Sanders has it completely backwards and is the only person in this scenario going against the principles this nation was founded on in being the one condemning another individual based on their religious beliefs. Funny how he reverts to his Jewish roots when it’s convenient to push his atheist, communist ideals. Sanders is despicable.
“He that believes on him is not condemned. But he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” [John 3:18-19]
On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) revealed why he is unfit for office. During his shameful inquisition of Russell Vought (a Wheaton College graduate), who is Trump’s nomination for the position of deputy director of the Office for Management and Budget (OMB), Sanders demanded that Vought’s nomination be rescinded because Vought believes and said that Muslims have a “deficient theology.”
Writing in response to comments made by former and controversial Wheaton associate professor Larycia Hawkins, Vought said, “[Muslims] do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.”
After reading these words from Vought aloud, a fuming Sanders asked, “Are you suggesting that all [Muslims] stand condemned? What about Jews? They stand condemned too?”
Word to Sanders: That’s Christianity 101.
Literally, Word to Sanders:
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. (John 3:17-18)
Jesus said to him,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)
Yes, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists and anyone else who rejects Christ’s substitutionary work on the Cross are condemned to eternal separation from God. This gives Christians no pleasure, hence the desire of Christians to evangelize–which Sanders would likely detest as well.
After Vought affirmed the centrality of Christ for Salvation, theologically and constitutionally ignorant Sanders said, “I would simply say, Mr. Chairman, that this nominee is really not someone who is what this country is supposed to be about.”
Wow.
I guess Samuel Alito, Tom Coburn, Trey Gowdy, and Marco Rubio do not represent what this country is supposed to be about. And how the heck did Antonin Scalia ever get confirmed?
This country was founded to protect the free exercise of religion. This country has no religious test for office. And yet the feckless curmudgeon Sanders has in effect said no theologically orthodox Christians are fit for office.
Islam is not merely a deficient theology. It is a false religion. It is not “Islamophobia”–of which Sanders accused Vought–or hatred that leads me to say this. It is God’s Word. Those who know what Scripture teaches and care about their friends and/or family who are Muslim should share this truth with them.
I wonder, will Sanders be asking Muslims who are nominated or running for office if they believe Jews go to Heaven?
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