"go and live in Algeria continued"

Submitted by Lactantius Jr. (United Kingdom), May 29, 2008 at 19:10

To sTs

"Go and live in Algeria" you say, and see for yourself how well Christians are treated.

Here's another report taken from the "Compass Direct" website, of just how well Habiba Kouider is being treated.

With kind regards and best wishes

Lactantius Jr.

Friday May 23, 2008

ALGERIA: COURT PRESSURES WOMAN TO RENOUNCE CHRIST

Christian could face three years in prison for practicing faith 'without license.'

ISTANBUL, May 23 (Compass Direct News) – An Algerian public prosecutor has demanded a three-year sentence for a convert to Christianity in western Algeria for practicing her faith "without license." Habiba Kouider, 35, was plucked off an inter-city bus outside of her home town of Tiaret on March 29 when police found several Bibles and books on Christianity in her hand bag. "You reinstate Islam and I will [drop the case]; if you persist in sin you will undergo the lightning of justice," the prosecutor told her, according to French daily Le Figaro. Algerian daily el Watan reported on Wednesday (May 21) that Kouider "refused to give up her new faith under the pressure," prompting the prosecutor to bring charges against her. She is accused of "practicing non-Muslims religious rites without a license," according to a copy of the written charge obtained by Compass. At the hearing, Kouider's defense lawyer told the court that the charge against her client did not exist in the law. "There is no trace of a possible reason to try individuals for the ‘practice of non-Muslim worship without authorization,'" Khelloudja Khalfoun said, according to el Watan.

http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=5389&backpage=summaries

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