Khaled Al-Sulaiman
Okaz
I have nothing to do with what people embrace of other religions or beliefs. To each their lord to judge them. And since I stopped judging others in their thoughts and actions, I have been living in great inner peace, but I do dwell on the qualities and behaviors of evil, such as lying, cheating and fraud. These qualities and actions that go beyond freedom of belief and behavior to what puts human under penalty of law and accountability!
In Britain, some media published a story about the request of a female Saudi medical student on a scholarship, who is there with her husband, to reside in Britain after announcing the abandonment of the Islamic religion and converting to atheism. I do not care what she embraced because Islam will not be missing something with her turning to atheism and neither did Islam increase because she was a Muslim. But I am concerned about the lies she used to justify her request, stating that the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission stopped paying for her scholarship because of her husband’s refusal to contribute donations for the purchase of a Church that is to be converted into a mosque!
What I know is that the scholarship program prevents students from fundraising outside the framework of the host systems or engage in activities contrary to the objectives of the scholarship, and the cultural and educational mission is not responsible for all activities and projects or the purchase of churches or mosques abroad!
Therefore, I find it interesting that this woman is ready to use cheap tactics of lying to gain false sympathy. This atheist student is being offensive to her country just to convince the authorities of another country to accept her to stay, while she is aware that anyone in Saudi Arabia does not ask people about their faith or hold them accountable for their worshipping as long as they do not do something publicly that collides with the community and its beliefs!
I hope that the British authorities accept her asylum application, and she achieves what she wants so she could have peace with herself. Our country is not harmed by the loss of two people. But since the atheists have consciences also, they might consider paying the Cultural Mission the scholarship expenses!
