Beheaded in Saudi Arabia for Owning a Bible?

Well, if that is true, the Saudis should shut up about rumors of defiling the Koran.

Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Saudi Institute in Washington, in the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal:

The Bible in Saudi Arabia may get a person killed, arrested, or deported. In September 1993, Sadeq Mallallah, 23, was beheaded in Qateef on a charge of apostasy for owning a Bible.

Well, the Saudis aren't exactly exemplars of tolerance and multi-culturalism.

The Saudi Embassy and other Saudi organizations in Washington have distributed hundreds of thousands of Qurans and many more Muslim books, some that have libeled Christians, Jews and others as pigs and monkeys. In Saudi school curricula, Jews and Christians are considered deviants and eternal enemies.