Of Mosque Closings, Islamic Tabasco, Graham Greene of Arabia, and Lord's Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
The Power and the Glory?
“Saudi Authorities are in pursuit of a sixty year old man for having daily prayers in his house in Kohobar in a continuation to a campaign to close Shia mosques………..Sources informed Rasid that members of the Criminal Intelligence Department informed Hajj Hussain Al-Rashid, the custodian of the mosques within his house, to cease Jamaa prayers immediately. Sources said that the authorities are still after the old man to force him signing an undertaking not to have a prayers place within his house......”
I read Graham Greene’s book when I was in tenth grade, and not in the author’s English language. It was one of the most powerful novels I read in my youth, up there with Oliver Twist, Tom Sawyer, Resurrection, The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir), and quite a few others.
This old man in the news is not exactly the Priest of Tabasco, but….
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