Saudia Arabia calls for interfaith dialogue for the pupose of persecuting atheists

So the leader of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, has called for an interfaith dialogue. It sounds like a wonderful meeting of the minds. Read below:

“I ask representatives of all the monotheistic religions to meet with their brothers in faith,” Abdullah told delegates to a seminar on “Dialogue Among Civilizations between Japan and the Islamic World,” according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

“If God wills it, we will then meet with our brothers from other religions, including those of the Torah and the Gospel… to come up with ways to safeguard humanity,” he added.

Abdullah said the country’s top clerics have given him approval to pursue his idea and that he plans to get the opinion of Muslim leaders from other countries.

 I love how people use words like “safeguard humanity” when they they really mean is “vanquish atheists and fags”:

“We have lost sincerity, morals, fidelity and attachment to our religions and to humanity,” Abdullah said Monday, deploring “the disintegration of the family and the rise of atheism in the world – a frightening phenomenon that all religions must confront and vanquish.” [emphasis mine]

 While we most assuredly lose attachment to religion when we become atheists, this is one more example of atheism being linked to disintegration of the family (by this I think he means homosexual rights) moral depravity, infidelity, insincerity, and… detachment from humanity.

Now, I am all for having more atheists in the world, but it is not my goal to vanquish religion. I’d like to vanquish irrationality, the undermining of science, and infringements on mine and others’ rights, but those are the negative things about religion. If there are no negative consequences, religion doesn’t really bother me, and people absolutely have the right to be religious.

Abdullah’s call for dialogue comes at a time of religious tensions caused by the re-igniting of a two-year-old controversy over Danish cartoons deemed by Muslims to be insulting.

 To me, there is a huge problem with this world – people think that they have the right to not be insulted.  If people drew silly pictures of me, or of anything else that matters to me, I might get insulted (probably not). But the fact that I am insulted does not mean you do not have the right to insult me.

Also, why only monotheists? Why not pagans, Hindus, Buddhists, pantheists, deists, spiritualists? How does this group of monotheists plan on vanquishing us?

In case you have not seen the picture that caused such an uproar, here it is.: