Criminal law, International, Religion

Saudi Arabia Decapitates Sri Lankan Maid For The Death Of Child Over An International Outcry

article-2259967-16D8B56F000005DC-120_306x291Despite an international outcry and effort to pay traditional “blood money” in the Saudi legal system, the Kingdom has cut the head off a Sri Lankan maid for allegedly smothering an infant child when the nanny was just 17. The maid was decapitated by a swordsman in Riyadh under the country’s Sharia based legal system.


Rizana Nafeek was sentenced to death in 2007 but Sri Lankan government appealed the death penalty and many international groups decried the ludicrous trial and draconian sentence. While under arrest, the maid signed a confession written in Arabic that she did not understand and later retracted. It did not matter.

Saudi Arabia beheaded as many as 76 people last year.

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Source: National Post

278 thoughts on “Saudi Arabia Decapitates Sri Lankan Maid For The Death Of Child Over An International Outcry”

  1. mespo:

    oil and gas production are on the rise, we are building LNG terminals. it will happen quicker than that if the Obama administration doesnt put up any more statist road blocks.

    We already export a good deal of oil.

    We make the Saudi fields look like a wading pool by comparison. Thanks to the technological advances in oil and gas exploration and production

    That is what capitalism does for you, it produces things in abundance. Even with statist controls abounding.

    1. “We make the Saudi fields look like a wading pool by comparison. Thanks to the technological advances in oil and gas exploration and production”

      Bron,

      you miss the point. Our putative “oil independence” won’t diminish Saudi influence on whit. The money they already have has allowed them to buy power here, be it Congress, or media. Their influence will remain long past our dependence on their oil.

  2. This is yet another example of why religion needs to end.

    And don’t fool yourself, extremist christians in the US see Shawna Forde as a martyr. They’d love to be able to get away with the same things the Saudi dictatorship can do.

    All religions would commit the same atrocities if they had the power to get away with it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and religions claim their absolute power comes from “gods”. When all of Europe was christian in the past, they did commit mass murder (e.g. witch trials, anti-jewish pogroms, crusades, the inquisition, the “reconquista” of Spain, etc.). Israel does the same in Gaza, and ask the Burmese and Thai muslims how the buddhists treated them in the past.

    1. Religion, and real Christianity are not related. What you are seeing is anti Christ. What you are seeing is what religious people wanted to do to Jesus. KJV itself. Mark 14:1-9 KJV the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. John 12;10 the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; Genesis 19. 9, What you are complaining about is not the character of Jesus. They pervert Gads word, KJV.

  3. Yet the Saudi Kingdom is our close ally and they are honored by the foreign policy establishment in this country. Money and oil breed respectability.

  4. It is a Pirate Territory. Note that I did not characterize it as a “country” or “nation”. East of Corfu the Ten Commandments dont apply. Saudia Arabia: dont go there, fly over, flush twice.

  5. I’m pretty sure that if someone I entrusted my child to chose to murder my completely defenseless infant then I would want the death penalty for that murderer.

  7. Interesting that folks want to blame this on the religion of the area. If thats at fault how do you explain Texas?

    Although, really, if you actually examine death penalty cases across the US you will find them littered with juveniles, mentally incompetent and innocent people (often all three in one) in numbers that would make a decent human being ashamed.

    There was no outcry when the state executed a 16 YO boy with an IQ under 60 whos lawyer drifted off to sleep during the trial (and the USSC had no problem with this) for a crime the actual evidence indicates he did not commit.

    Perhaps we should follow the actual teachings of this Jesus guy and spend some time removing the plank from our eye & not whining about the mote in our brother’s.

    1. Seeing that religious people planed for the arresting of Jesus having the servant of the high prieast arrest him and wanted him dead whoever kills or arrests is therefore religious being anti Christ. It is so freaking simple.

  10. Disturbing, but it shouldn’t be surprising when religion is your government. The death penalty is barbaric for any country, but a swordsman probably has a better aim than a US jail physician with a needle full of poison.

  11. Evil is always evil no matter how you,… AHem,.. slice it. Jesus gives life. Jesus is good. How can the taking of a life therefore be good?

  13. Why didn’t we invade Saudi Arabia – the country than manned and financed the 9/11 attack?

    Why was that again?

  15. Our wonderful ally. We saved them from Sadam. He was so evil. Supporter of terrorists, absolute monarch, guided by Sharia law, yes just the kind of country we should be supporting or as Al Gore would say just the right kind of country (Qatar) to sell a cable channel to. I am so proud, not.

  18. I am all for a World Court and no country has a choice about joining. You’re in, like it or not. This sort of travesty would be prevented. The World Court would hear every capital punishment case; i.e., there would be no capital punishment.

    The US would not be able to negotiate, pay, bribe, strongarm or blackmail its way out of jurisdiction. Nor would KSA or any other religiously governed country. It would not be like the ICC. It would be real.

  19. I am crossing off the days until we get energy independence (the IEA says it will happen in 2030) from these savages.

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