We have been following the latest Sharia outrage in the death sentence given to a television show host who was accused of sorcery for discussing people’s future on Lebanese television. Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested while visiting Saudi Arabia and his lawyer has reported that he is scheduled to be beheaded on Friday absent some reprieve or reversal.
Sibat hosted a popular call-in show that aired on Beirut-based satellite TV channel “Sheherazade.” He was in Saudi Arabia to perform Umra, a religious pilgrimage. He was promptly accused of sorcery and arrested.
For the full story, click here.
He got a stay:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/05/reprieve-for-lebanese-man-who-was-set-to-die-for-sorcery/
If Allah, or Jehovah, or God, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster is so all powerful why are they so easily offended? Why must their believers kill those who “offend” – particularly while mouthing platitudes to the peacefulness of their deity?
Buddha
For at least 30 years I’ve been espousing the idea of a radioactive device down every oil well in the Middle East rendering them all unusable.
Well, Iran will be out of oil in another 5 years, no doubt their reasoning for going to nuclear power while they can still afford it, but the Saudis …. a while longer, I guess.
“Scott B in DC 1, April 1, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Of course the US will not get involved. Why should the US risk access to that oil for a Lebanese journalist, even though the Saudis are wrong!”
True. We didn’t even retaliate when they funded and manned the 9/11 attacks. This may have been understandable when their boy W is in the White House, but equity demands that we should annex their 12th Century retrograde asses right down to the last camel or turn them into radioactive glass.
Thereby rendering the world safe for non-terrorist non-Wahabbists, be they sorcerers or otherwise.
An apparent stay of execution:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8600398.stm
Per Buckeye, “Thursday, the last day of the Saudi week, is a traditional day for beheadings in the kingdom.” A “traditional day” for beheadings? Oh, what a world…
Why would a sorcerer go to Saudi Arabia? Sounds like a pretty tough place:
{Ms el-Khansa said that she had been told by Saudi sources that Mr Sibat would be executed yesterday.
Thursday, the last day of the Saudi week, is a traditional day for beheadings in the kingdom, which observes a very strict version of Sharia, or Islamic law, and condemns to death those found guilty of murder, apostasy, armed robbery, drug trafficking, rape and witchcraft. Amnesty said it also feared that the execution was imminent.
The Lebanonese Ambassador to Riyadh, Marwan Zein, said yesterday that he had not been informed by the Saudi authorities that Mr Sibat was about to be executed. He believed that the case was still being considered by the court.
Mr Sibat was arrested, according to his lawyers, when he was performing the Umra, a minor religious pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Saudi Arabia. While in Medina, he was recognised by members of the religious police — the same force that once prevented schoolgirls escaping a burning school because their heads were uncovered — who had seen his show on television and arrested him in his hotel room. )
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7085303.ece (April 2, 2010) Note time change:
Richard:
you should have defended him, he would be free now.
While we’re being snarky, maybe we could entice Limbaugh to visit SA. Just tell him that there have asmuch child prostitution as DR, only it’s kept very, very quiet. if this is how they treat some nobody from Beirut, just think what they’d do with a bigg American superstar.
He’s obviously not a real psychic. Otherwise, he’d have seen this coming and fled.
Of course the US will not get involved. Why should the US risk access to that oil for a Lebanese journalist, even though the Saudis are wrong!
Byron – better a 2 bit dictator gets your money than 7th century mystics. what a bunch of barbarians.
You can say that again.
AY – Did they offer cake first?
Cake or death?
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People ought to call the Saudi Embassy and protest this. I would also recommend buying gas from Citgo (a Venezuelan company) better a 2 bit dictator gets your money than 7th century mystics. what a bunch of barbarians.
If Saudi Arabia considered this man a sorceror, therefore an apostate, why did they allow him to come into the country? To make him an example of their fealty to Sharia law? Religion in the hands of zealots is always a dangerous thing.
Did they offer cake first?
That’s insane. Visit a country and get charged for violating their laws that you apparently broke while you were living outside the country? (I’m sure some drug kingpins agree with me on this.)
On top of that it all is based on religious ignorance/intolerance/retardation. The flu may kill millions each year, but that pales in comparison to the number of minds stultified by religion.