Kuwait lawmaker under fire for call to ban religious building construction

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"It seems that MP Osama Al Munawer was not fully conscious when he said that he was mulling a bill to remove churches from the country," MP Nabeel Al Fadhel said. "The constitution clearly stipulates religious freedoms and the right of all people to practice their religious beliefs," he said, quoted by Arabic daily Al Shahed on Sunday.

"It seems that MP Osama Al Munawer was not fully conscious when he said that he was mulling a bill to remove churches from the country," MP Nabeel Al Fadhel said. "The constitution clearly stipulates religious freedoms and the right of all people to practice their religious beliefs," he said, quoted by Arabic daily Al Shahed on Sunday.

Kuwait’s rulers have invariably supported religious freedom, he said.

"I wish to refer those who were pleased with the MP’s call to how Caliph Omar Ibn Al Khattab refused to pray in a church amid concerns that some people would one day claim that their leader prayed there and demolish it," he said.

 

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