Religion It’s Witchcraft…
posted by February 14 at 12:13 PM
on…and it’s a capital offense in Saudi Arabia.
A leading human-rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom’s religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of “absurd charges that have no basis in law.”
Falih’s case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
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This reminds me of some of my favorite songs about witchcraft ...
Must be about four running around in my head, including that one from Ghostbusters (or was it Ghostbusters II) ...
China banned ghosts and monsters from the internet, too, in related "aren't foreign people stupid" news: http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-7308581,00.html
Peak oil can't come soon enough.
A capital offense would be one that has occurred in Riyadh - on the other hand:
Ghosts. Monsters. Witches. And those flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz, now they really scare the shit out of me. They sorta look like, well, Obama.
great. we're back in the 1700s. while we're at it, let's hang, draw and quarter some of the Evangelicals for being heretics.
No need to bomb Saudi Arabia back to the stone age - they're already there!
"shortcomings in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic legal system..."
Well there's an understatement.
Other than having been lucky enough to have been born on top of the motherlode of the world's oil, these fuckwads have absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever.
I don't see what's wrong with that. You guys must all be baby-eating witches and cat-killing witch sympathizers.
Now I finally understand why the Archbishop of Canterbury is onboard with Sharia law in Britain!
Oh, the friends you make when you're completely addicted to their oil.
How the hell can you be proven guilty of performing supernatural acts?
To say that somebody is proven guilty of perpetrating a supernatural act, one would have to prove that (a) the act took place, and (b) an action that the accused took actually caused the supernatural act. And shit, once you've proven cause and effect, the act appears to be understandable in terms of the natural order of things, and no longer relegated to the realm of the supernatural.
Shitty-ass motherfucking court if you ask me.
People have the unique ability to see whatever they want to see. The more ignorant they are the more they see non-existant threats. The west has it's own witch persecutions in it's history (right here in the good old U.S.A.) This is why theocracies are so dangerous. Nothing is done by rational thinking.Instead,judgement is by religious hysteria.
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