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Source: www.wnd.com Date: May 26, 2007 FAITH UNDER FIRE
Christian arrested for visiting Mecca
Only Muslims are allowed to enter Islam's holy city
Posted: May 26, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
When Saudi authorities discovered a man working in Mecca was a Christian, they immediately arrested him, highlighting the desert kingdom's law barring non-Muslims from the Islamic holy city. The Saudi regime's Expatriates Monitoring Committee used a new high-tech finger-print system to identify Nirosh Kamanda of Sri Lanka as a Christian, reported Arab News, the government-approved English-language paper. "The Grand Mosque and the holy city are forbidden to non-Muslims," said Col. Suhail Matrafi, head of the department in charge of Expatriates Affairs in Mecca. "The new fingerprints system is very helpful and will help us a lot to discover the identity of a lot of criminals and overstayers."
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