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EMBRACE ISLAM, or lose your job. ?Christian Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia are complaining that t?

By Glenn Reynolds

EMBRACE ISLAM, or lose your job. “Christian Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia are complaining that their employers are threatening to fire them if they do not convert to Islam. It’s against the law for a Moslem in Saudi Arabia to convert to another religion. The punishment is death, and anyone attempting to convert Moslems is subject to the death penalty. This sort of double standard, and use of coercion, is a big deal in the Philippines, although the government there, and in Saudi Arabia, try to play down this particular problem.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).