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Monday, February 25, 2008

They Behead Witches, Don’t They?

posted by on February 25 at 10:00 AM

Why yes, Virginia, they do—in Saudi Arabia, our ally in the war on terror. Here’s the CNN report…

And here’s a bit more from the Register

Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali is currently languishing in Quraiyat Prison having “exhausted her appeals” against the sentence. The illiterate defendant was arrested back in 2005, and allegedly beaten and obliged to fingerprint a confession that she couldn’t read.

The conviction was based on the testimony of several witnesses who said she’d bewitched them, including one who claimed she’d made him impotent. Fawza Falih retracted her confession in court, but Human Rights Watch notes: “The judges never investigated whether her confession was voluntary or reliable or investigated her allegations of torture. They never even made an inquiry as to whether she could have been responsible for allegedly supernatural occurrences, such as the sudden impotence of a man she is said to have ‘bewitched’.”


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1

Yeah, you've really gotta watch out for those limp-dicked Saudis. He was probably just worn out from fucking all those camels and goats.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 25, 2008 10:28 AM
2

The story mentions 15 teen girls left to die in a fire because they weren't wearing the proper attire to be rescued by the male fire fighters. Fuck. I just...it's like...fuck.

Posted by muggims | February 25, 2008 10:50 AM
3

Thank goodness they're helping us fight the "bad guys".

Posted by Tiktok | February 25, 2008 10:53 AM
4

They also set free mass murderers who can memorize the Koran, like they just did one of the al-Qaeda top operatives in Yemen.

Wahhabists are really sick - and they do hate America.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 25, 2008 11:20 AM
5

She turned me into a newt!

Posted by vooodooo84 | February 25, 2008 1:28 PM
6

Saudi Arabia is a shithole, film at 11.

Posted by Greg | February 25, 2008 2:09 PM
7

Saudi Arabia is about where we were in 1692 when witches were hunted in Salem. Only eight more years until they step into the eighteenth century!

Posted by RainMan | February 25, 2008 5:36 PM
8

Did you hear the one about the bigoted anthropologist who walked into the bar?

Posted by collie | February 25, 2008 9:49 PM

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