Slog - Comments on It's Witchcraft... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft ...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... Copyright 2008 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:13:25 -0800 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:14:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle 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) ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938506 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:22:21 -0800 Comment by everyone is stupid except us 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

]]> everyone is stupid except us http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938527 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938527 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:34:46 -0800 Comment by Gitai Peak oil can't come soon enough.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938530 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938530 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:35:37 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE A capital offense would be one that has occurred in Riyadh - on the other hand:

Capitol Offense (band), the band of former Arkansas Governor, and current Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938536 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938536 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:37:37 -0800 Comment by Frodo 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.

]]> Frodo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938573 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938573 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:01:41 -0800 Comment by apres_moi 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.

]]> apres_moi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938647 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:29:22 -0800 Comment by Hernandez No need to bomb Saudi Arabia back to the stone age - they're already there!

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938677 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938677 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:41:08 -0800 Comment by Greg "shortcomings in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic legal system..."

Well there's an understatement.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938731 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938731 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:02:50 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty 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.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938775 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:21:50 -0800 Comment by Mr. Joshua I don't see what's wrong with that. You guys must all be baby-eating witches and cat-killing witch sympathizers.

]]> Mr. Joshua http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938786 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:25:13 -0800 Comment by max solomon

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938804 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938804 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:30:23 -0800 Comment by Westside forever 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.

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938879 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c938879 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:41 -0800 Comment by Mike 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.

]]> Mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c939103 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c939103 Religion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:10:57 -0800 Comment by Vince 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.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c939417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/its_witchcraft#c939417 Religion Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:14:19 -0800