The first sign of trouble was an email from a friend in Philadelphia wanting to know if the news report he’d read was true. This e-snowflake became a flurry and then a blizzard as similar queries piled up in Fahad Alhomoudi’s inbox.
Christians from Europe, Asia and the Middle East all wanted to know if Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, the kingdom’s top official religious authority, had actually said that all the churches in the Gulf region should be destroyed.
