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
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.”
Stability for oil. Oil for stability. Scratch. Scratch. And all get their jollies.
Ralph,
Anybody who can call Mubarak moderate must be coo-coo.
Mike,
George H. W. and George W. are still “employees” of the Saudi royals.
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 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.
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!
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..
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?
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 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.
“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.
At first I was going to say sorcery how horrible, but then I saw he was an adulterer……never mind.
Beheading is more merciful to the victim.
Drowning is more merciful to the spectators.
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?
Adultery? Didn’t they cut off the wrong part?
AY, I was gonna say that and when I dropped down to “Comments” I saw you beat me to the punch!
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.
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.
In America, our religionist courts would behead only gay sorcerers.
I predict that this will not be the last one killed…..