Saudi Arabia’s Sharia-based courts continued their application medieval notions of justice this week with the execution of another person accused of “witchcraft and sorcery.” Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri was beheaded after he was found in possession of books and talismans. He was also accused of adultery.
Experts noted that the country’s conservative religious leaders insisted on the maximum punishment for witchcraft, including fortune tellers.
Source: BBC
I predict that this will not be the last one killed…..
In America, our religionist courts would behead only gay sorcerers.
Saudi Arabia’s Sharia-based courts continued their application medieval notions of justice this week with the execution of another person accused of “witchcraft and sorcery.”
They evidently don’t discourage every form of “witchcraft and sorcery”, especially when it helps the royalty of the kingdom.
They did 79% of 9/11 according to reputable sources in federal court cases, but somehow they voodooed their way out of it.
I have a friend from Yemen. When he is in someone’s home and wishes to use the bathroom, he politely asks, “Where is the Saudi Embassy?”
Yeah, there’s a Fatwah out on him, too.
AY, I was gonna say that and when I dropped down to “Comments” I saw you beat me to the punch!
Adultery? Didn’t they cut off the wrong part?
Just shows what a lack of water leads to.
Inhibits thinking too.
Afflicted Madrid too with the Inquisition, and the auto-da-fé. Burning takes longer than beheading or drowning. Who is most merciful then?
Beheading is more merciful to the victim.
Drowning is more merciful to the spectators.
At first I was going to say sorcery how horrible, but then I saw he was an adulterer……never mind.
Obama will, no doubt, be bowing down to Mecca in praise of this decision from the sagacious Sharia Court. Obama is the only U.S. president to bow before a Saudi. But it’s not just Obama. Do you realize that the US Government spends bilions of dollars of dollars protecting the Saudi “royal” families from attack. It is amazing. The sensible thing, of course, would be to LET the Saudis be attacked, as Iraq attempted to do years ago, let the Saudis be wiped out, and only THEN go in to get rid of the attackers, and then finally colonize the region. But that would lead to world peace and stability. Better to have Sharia Law and Saudi-funded Islamic terrorism everywhere. It is only a matter of time before they will be having courses in Sharia Law taught at George Washington Law School.
It depends on WHOSE wife he violated. My suspicion is that he did it to a rather powerful Saudi and the witchcraft charge was to protect his wife so she could claim she was bewitched by the guy into doing the act.
“Obama is the only U.S. president to bow before a Saudi.”
Ralph,
That statement is proof that you don’t know what you’re talking about and so everything you say is suspect. Google the following:
“Bandar Bush”-Saudi Prince who is like a member of the Bush family.
“The Carlyle Group”- Investment fund where GHW Bush and the Saudi’s are partners.
GHW Bush and Osama Bin Laden’s brother spent 9/11 together in NYC watching the news. They are in business together.
GW Bush had mostly Saudi investment for all of his early business deals.
And so on and so on. Now I bet that you voted for both those Bush guys, not understanding they were Saudi tools. For some ignorance is bliss ad FOXNews is really news.
I guess that kissing and holding hands with the Saudi King is OK since that is what GW Bush is shown in real pictures doing. But a BOW? Heaven forbid.
Also W Bush founded his oil company with funds from Salim Bin Laden who was the head of the Bin Laden group. He was a great guy by the way and an avid pilot and a party animal too. In fact, he had a Swedish rock band that he employed to play at his parties, and which travelled with him. He came to our flight school, Fletcher Aviation in HOU, to get the band members their pilots licenses. Unfortunately, Salim went ultra-light flying in Schertz Texas on a windy day, and got caught in some high power transmission lines and was fried. That ended our training his rock band as well as a tragedy for his family.
And so on and so on. Now I bet that you voted for both those Bush guys, not understanding they were Saudi tools. For some ignorance is bliss ad FOXNews is really news.
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I have heard there is an expectation of even greater instability in SA with the aging and newest death in the Saudi family?
The humans in Saudi Arabia need to dress in sackcloth, and cover themselves in ashes publicly repenting. What they did is not what Jesus would do. Jesus rejected the laws of Mosses that harmed anyone. Why don’t humans know this? .Jesus writes in the sand harming no one..
ARE,
Right on the money.
As for the Bushes, the question is did they keep their hands outside the robes. Not so sure. A buck is a -uck!
Mike Spindell and Randyjet, I am fully aware of the Bush family’s love affair with the Saudis. And holding hands with one of those Saudi “royals” was abhorent. But bowing down is a bit different. The Bushes thought of themselves as partners with the Saudis. And I specifically referenced the failure of the G.H.W. Bush to LET Iraq wipe out the Saudis before going in to wipe out the Iraqis. It’s not a Republican vs. Democrat thing. It’s about BAD US policy of pandering to the Saudis, rather than showing them all too clearly who is the Boss.
But Obama has taken the pandering to a new low by bowing down before a Saudi “royal.” It would not be an overstatement to conclude that Obama by this act of bowing to a Saudi “royal” was giving the GREEN LIGHT to the Saudi funding of the Arab springs that followed, helping to put the Muslim Brotherhood in power, replacing the stability and “relative” moderation of such regimes as Mubarak’s with Islamic extremism.
“But bowing down is a bit different.”
Ralph, quite frankly you are full of it and merely playing politics. The Bush Family were hardly Saudi partners, they were employees bought and paid for.
CROSS POST CROSS POST
LeeJCarrol,
Guess we must conclude that that law is a form of guild, with those restrictions and binding internal rules.
I think it odd the silence which meets you, and others who I won’t name. Who speaks here for the lawyers when these tales of injustice are parleyed for hope for betterment? None is heard.
We get tales of judges, lawyers, officials from JT and even others. But nothing in terms of offering a solution to this evil. For it is a cancer, ie it is growing and deadly in the end.
Are there no lawyer organizations willing to challenge this sickness? Where is the equivalent of the ACLU.
Perhaps their are. Describe them.
Where is the federal law equivalent to the consumer financial protection laws which would offer a time unlimited appeal and prosecutorial path?
I am not a lawyer and here am I presuming to mention alternatives and needs. Where the hell are the lawyers here? And their fellow travelers? Why is it so quiet here?
Is baring your woes uncouth in this place. OK. Skip the personal. But letting the comments stand at just that, without mentioning the rare case when they get caught.
Where is the EFFing oversight???????
Mike,
George H. W. and George W. are still “employees” of the Saudi royals.
Ralph,
Anybody who can call Mubarak moderate must be coo-coo.
Stability for oil. Oil for stability. Scratch. Scratch. And all get their jollies.
The Bushes are not employees of the Saudis. They were partners. If you are looking for an employee of the Saudis, then Jimmy Carter is your man. And “idealist707,” please change your name to “idiot707,” to be more truthful. Mubarak helped to keep the Islamic extremist elements from becoming too powerful. Now, Egypt is going to be a terrorist threat, just as much as the Saudis. It will become a clone of Iran. I realize that many of you on this board are Leftists, and so you are delighted by any advances in communism or fascism, so there’s no need to comment, as I already know your positions on just about everything, since you all think and talk exactly alike, like robotons, or as I sometimes refer to you, “Obamazoids.”
RA,
Thanks for the attention. So in your eyes, any method is justified as long as it quells the extremists. The extremists were there the whole time. And his quelling, what did that lead to? It may take centuries, but freedom of expression is the only way forward, even if the speech is distasteful and encourages evil deeds. That is what we have armies for, to combat that. Not secret police killer squads as under Mubarak. And we kept him in power. Sheesh.
Anything else to say good about his regime? Keeping his people analphabetic, perhaps.
Saddam, I spit on his grave–to borrown a phrase, at least raised women’s level so that 80+ percent could read and write when 2003 came. We pushed it down to 16 percent now accdg latest report published at intl connference.
“I realize that many of you on this board are Leftists, and so you are delighted by any advances in communism or fascism, so there’s no need to comment,”
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Well, there might have been a need to comment, but I sure can’t figure out what that particular comment might have been.
Well, practically speaking there are very few true Communists left anywhere anymore, let any alone here, and nobody is happy about Communism except for someone perhaps not paying attention. Fascism is anti-liberal and syncretic by definition but far right in practice, so fascism is not Leftist.
Sounds to me someone doesn’t know the meanings of the words he uses to demonize which does indeed obviate the need to comment any further.
You might as well call people you disagree with whurple-snarts or furrhhrrnigans.
Ralph:
hardly any people here are leftists.
“I realize that many of you on this board are Leftists, and so you are delighted by any advances in communism or fascism, so there’s no need to comment,”
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Yeah, I see those communists and fascists hanging out together all the time down at their club house. Their favorite pass time is to beat each other.
Oh, c’mon guys, he musta been trolling you.
Nobody is that stupid, or do we believe P.T. Barnum.
Fascist/Communist. Sounds like a badly done sex-change operation.
Let me be first to confess that I am a whurplesnark.
Several years ago a Saudi royal had his own daughter’s head chopped off on the airport tarmac right after she got off the plane. That was after he promised her same passage if she came back.
My comments await moderation.
Malisha,
You too?
Matt,
See my reply to Malisha on the Propaganda thread.
Gene,
Did you delete a few of my comments?
Matt,
Nope. Like I’ve said, a small list of words has been added to the moderation filter by Professor Turley. Any missing comments can be attributed to that or the Askimet software (which sometimes “misfires” and flags things as spam for inscrutable reasons).
Matt Johnson 1, June 21, 2012 at 10:59 am
Gene,
So it’s Professor Turley’s fault? So what if I used the word a______ a few times. I didn’t mean anything by it. Maybe I used a few other words I shouldn’t have used. Sorry.
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
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Alright, now you’re moderating my comment again. Another moderation?
Matt,
Congratulations. You figured out one of the words in the moderation filter. You seem to be under some misunderstanding of how that works, by the way. No one is sitting around moderating every comment let alone babysitting the moderation queue. You can set up WordPress to have every comment require approval, but that’s not how it’s done around here. The filter does all the work for both moderation and for spam. There is no “you” moderating your comment.
Personally, I’m from the Carlin school of thinking about words; “”There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And woooords.”
However, the additions to the moderation filter are the Professor’s choice and while we discuss editorial policy among the guest bloggers and our host, the ultimate decision rests with JT.
Gene H,
I didn’t use any taboo words. It doesn’t matter, really. I’m in a think-up about it anyway, about what my comments mean to me, because that’s more important than what they may mean to others.
Thanks. I’m trying to quit.
Gene,
George Carlin said the seven dirty words you cant say on the radio are s—, p—. f—, c—, c———-, m————, and t—-.
I wonder if it’s legal to hunt whurplesnarks? I bet they taste good. Deep fried lefty communist facist dictator whurplesnarks, fried for breakfast! I iz a right wingin killin machine, gonna get me some leftists fer dat der liberty ‘n freedom fries ‘n stuff.
The opinions posted here are not mine, not the opinions of the Ralph Adamo who lives in New Orleans. I regret being misidentified by the unfortunate fact that we have the same name.
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