The religious police arrested the woman in a sting operation. That’s right, the Saudis have anti-sorcery sting operations run by their morals police. She was beheaded pursuant to Sharia law.
What is fascinating is that this would mean that the Saudis would execute not just fortune tellers and carnival healers but presumably non-Muslim faith-healers if they claimed to be able to treat illnesses.
As discussed in yesterday’s column, this is one of the countries that the Obama Administration is working with to come up with new speech laws targeting intolerant speech.
Source: Chicago Tribune
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