Saudi Scholar Calls For Building Worship Sites For Non-Muslims

The arabic news website Elaph reports that during the fifth preparatory meeting on National Dialogue that took place in Saudi Arabia last Saturday, a number of participants raised a sensitive issue by calling for the possibility to build worship sites for non-muslim community living in the Kingdom. The scholar who came up with this revolutionary idea explained his proposal by saying that the Kingdom is host to many foreign workers from various cultures, faiths and countries and it was necessary that those foreign workers are treated in a reciprocal manner and that their rights for a worship site be protected.The Meeting which drained more than 60 participants discussed the following theme " We and the Other: A common National Vision To Deal With World Cultures".