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 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.
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.
Gene,
George Carlin said the seven dirty words you cant say on the radio are s—, p—. f—, c—, c———-, m————, and t—-.
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.
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.
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,
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).
Gene,
Did you delete a few of my comments?
Matt,
See my reply to Malisha on the Propaganda thread.
Malisha,
You too?
My comments await moderation.
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.
Let me be first to confess that I am a whurplesnark.
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.
“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.
Ralph:
hardly any people here are leftists.
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.
“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.
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.