When the Saudi justice system is not flogging rape victims, it is trying women as witches. It turns out that witchcraft is treated as a catch-all charge for an offense against Islam. She could be executed.
The kingdom’s religious police arrested and coerced Fawza Falih to confess — a standard practice in the bizarre world of Saudi justice. Various witnesses testified that she had “bewitched” them to convict her in April 2006, according to the group.
This latest absurdity follows the arrest of an American women for sitting at a Starbucks with a man, here, and of course the infamous case of the flogging sentence for the rape victim, here.
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It is truly horrific. This witch-hunt mentality in Saudi is the Salem Witch Trials all over again, even though they were over 300 years ago. Then there was the Malleus Maleficarum, begun in 1484 by a so-called “Christian” church before Salem. There is no such thing as justice in most Middle East countries, especially for women.