Son Stabs Father to Death Over Issue of Prayer

MAKKAH, 4 April 2005 — Police in Makkah arrested a university student who allegedly killed his father, Okaz newspaper reported. The peaceful Makkah community was shocked to hear the news but the reason behind the crime was even more shocking. The father had threatened his son that if he did not go to the mosque to pray with him he would inform the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. On hearing the threat, the son ran to the kitchen, got hold of a knife and went on stabbing the father to death.