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Saudi Arabia is an Islamic theocracy and the government has declared the Qur'an and the Sunnah (tradition) of Muhammad to be the country's Constitution. Freedom of religion is not illegal, but spreading the religion is illegal. Islam is the official religion.
The Kaaba in Mecca is the holiest site of Islam, the state religion of Saudi Arabia.. Islam is the state religion of Saudi Arabia. [1] As the "home of Islam" where the prophet of Islam lived and carried out his mission, [2] the kingdom attracts millions of Muslim Hajj pilgrims annually, and thousands of clerics and students who come from across the Muslim world to study. [3]
A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia after officials in the kingdom ordered a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public, highlighting the religious ...
In Saudi Arabia, freedom of religion is not recognized nor protected under the law. Sunni Islam is the official religion according to the 1992 Basic Law and the Qur'an and the Sunna are Saudi Arabia's constitution. [17] Besides mosques, there are also no churches or other places of worship in Saudi Arabia. It is the only country in the world to ...
The country holds a reservation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child against any provisions that are in conflict with sharia law; [157] Article 14 gives freedom of "thought, conscience and religion" to children. Saudi Arabia and some of the Gulf states have been carrying out airstrikes on the Yemen, violating international laws and ...
The Kingdom of Bahrain has been addressed by the European Union regarding its human rights records several times in the past. After the last dialogue between EU and Bahrain held on 7 November 2019, the EU Special Representative for Human Rights conducted an early 2021 dialogue with Bahrain raising the issue of prison torture, repression of freedom of expression and association, and arbitrary ...
Saudi Arabian activist Raif Badawi was arrested for blasphemy. In 2010, the U.S. State Department stated that in Saudi Arabia "freedom of religion is neither recognized nor protected under the law and is severely restricted in practice" and that "government policies continued to place severe restrictions on religious freedom". [172]
Irreligion in Saudi Arabia is difficult to measure as it is illegal to leave the Islamic faith in the country. [1] [2] [3] Most atheists in Saudi Arabia communicate with each other via the Internet. [4] [5] According to a 2012 poll by WIN-Gallup International, 5% of 502 Saudi Arabians surveyed stated they were "convinced atheists". [6] [7] [8]