Despite 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.
Source: National Post
exactly agreed. Still not a Christianbut a mixture of Darwinism the occult and Christianityafter all he was in Europe and needed to somehow engage the people who consider themselves Christian
Actually, Hitler was a lapsed Catholic. His propaganda mechanism though relied heavily upon both indigenous German and borrowed Roman mythological and magical concepts to sell their message. Many Nazis clung to pseudo-scientific beliefs such as Social Darwinism (as did Hitler) but there was a stronger element of the occult in the SS. However, on a national scale the eventual plan was to replace all traditional sects of Christianity with the National Reich Church which was a blend of Christianity, nationalism and Nazism designed to reconcile what Martin Bormann had described as “irreconcilable”, namely the tenets of National Socialism and Christianity. This ended up being one of the Ministry of Propaganda’s biggest failures in application and Alfred Rosenberg’s plans for the National Reich Church failed.
It was in Hitlers mind to replace, but the same deceptive spirit in the Catholic church that oppressed many that spawning the military spawned another military with Hitler that did the same thing.. Jesus obviously not in either one.
By the way Hitler was not godless, but he wasnt a Christian either. He was a pagon. He believed in the Nordic gods.. kind of. The Nazis actualy built a pegan temple the elites worshiped at.Hitler said “I will pull up the tree of Christianity branches, roots and all” Ofcourse”Christians” HAVE commited atrocities, but not nearly on the scale of the godless states..
Mickey,
You need to read the history of The Inquisition, the Witch Trials, anti-Jewish Pogroms and the Crusaders before they even got to the Holy Lands. Also while you’re at it the Albigensian Heresy and some of Martin Luther’s preachings. The Southern Baptists also have an interesting history, as do the Religious beliefs of the KKK.
Hitler was not godless, really? Hitler or whoever wars can’t be a Christian.
Sorry that was wrong
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NITE1.HTM
Frankly.. according to University of Hawaii study at least 133 million, as much as 260 million mudered in the 20th century almost all by godless states. Either far exceeds war dead.
What’s so “draconian” about the death penalty for intentionally killing an infant? That’s certainly a possible punishment in many US states for the same crime.
The death penalty is giving evil for evil. Gods word says to not do that in many ways, but people disobey the KJV anyway. What do you think will be their ultimate end?
‘Death of a Prisoner’
by Laura Poitras
” When President Obama pledged to close the Guantánamo Bay prison on his first day in office as president in 2009, I believed the country had shifted direction. I was wrong. Four years later, President Obama has not only institutionalized Guantánamo and all the horrors it symbolizes, but he has initiated new extrajudicial programs, like the president’s secret kill list.
In September 2012 I read the news that another prisoner at Guantánamo had died, and I knew I had probably met his family. I traveled to Yemen in 2007 with the idea of making a film about a Guantánamo prisoner. I went there with the Guantánamo lawyer David Remes. He met with families and delivered the news of their sons, brothers, fathers and husbands. I had hoped to film the journey of someone being released from Guantánamo and returning home. Five years later, I find myself making that film, but under tragic circumstances.
Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif recently died in solitary confinement at Guantánamo at age 36, after nearly 11 years of imprisonment there, despite never having been charged with a crime. Last month his body was returned to his family in Yemen, but we are left with many unanswered questions about his imprisonment and death.
Mr. Latif’s death is under investigation by the United States military, which claims he committed suicide from an overdose of prescription medication complicated by acute pneumonia. But that’s hard to take at face value. Why was he placed in solitary confinement when he was suffering from acute pneumonia? How could he have overdosed on medication, given the strict protocols at Guantánamo? Why did it take three months for the body to be returned to Yemen? And finally, why are his autopsy and toxicology report classified and being withheld from his family?
These questions are not just about Adnan Latif. They also address the injustices that our government has instituted and normalized in the war on terror.
Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. She is currently working on a trilogy of films about post-9/11 America. She is the recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship and is on the board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Her previous Op-Doc is “The Program.”
Mickey – well you would be right as long as you leave out the casualty totals of WWI & II. Hitler (an upstanding, church going Christian) caused the deaths of 10-12 million civilians in death camps with religion being the cause for at least 5-6 million of them. He also was responsible for the deaths of more people in the Soviet Union than Stalin was. Those are facts you could look up.
But that is not to let religion or the lack thereof off the hook for the needless slaughter humans seem to take as necessary from time to time. Nobody’s hands are clean on this account.
I think no group takes as much joy and pleasure out of needless murders as religious zealots but if you are on the point end of the stick joyful or joyless really is not going to matter.
I did not read it.Not saying she had it coming. I dont know. I was only questioning the reason behind the outrage,if it was her innocents or the punishment for the crime commited. Hope she wasnt an innocent woman. 🙁
Stone throwing religious people did to her what they did. Jesus stops them.
this is about a corrupted State -Woosty’s still a Cat
Plenty of corruption and injustice:
“These questions are not just about Adnan Latif. They also address the injustices that our government has instituted and normalized in the war on terror.” -Laura Poitras
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/opinion/death-of-a-prisoner.html?hp
http://nyti.ms/UDZ7bs
Folks who are suggesting she had it coming really should read the story. She signed a confession in a language she couldn’t read despite denying the details of the confession before and after signing it. (which is marginally worse than what has happened thousands of times here in the US where someone is browbeaten into confessions that make no sense and often contradict the facts in the case – only to be convicted on the strength of these bogus confessions). It would be wrong to think she did it in absence of any evidence.
@P Smith. Joseph Salin mudered 10s of millions without religion. Chineese communist many other godless regimes have mudered hundreds of million combined. In fact the godless regimes in the 20th century have mudered more people than have been killed in all the wars we have fought.
Know this, Jesus is not in killing. How then can Jesus be in what is known as religion? Jesus did not kill nether did he indorse it. See the character of Jesus See Christianity.
this is not about religion….this is about a corrupted State. Where was her defense? What $$$$”d entity was involved???
We don’t invade the Sauds because nobody really knows whose head is up whose nether parts….thats why. And it all stinks if you ask me…..
If she truely did it I have no greef for her. Is it the decapitation that seems to anger so many?? Dead is dead. Or are they just anti death penalty?? In this country in which are willing to kill the innocent in the woom and protest killing cold blooded murderes. I truely dont get it. I knew it was wrong to kill babies by smothering OR in the woom when I was 17. If she did not do it, its a horrible travesty.
Nor do I, Bob, Esq.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see how this is any different from an American State executing someone who may have been innocent.
I don’t see the shock value here.
We are guilty before God because we kill what we eat, and what we use to build with etc. To kill a person is evil period.
mike spindell:
I am not so sure, American oil companies, flush with money from an expanding production, will spread the wealth to many in congress. I am against this but at least it would be Americans buying Americans rather than foreign governments.
Bron,
Look at the Saudi stake in some “American” oil companies. I put American in quotes because none of the major oil companies consider themselves American anymore. They are multi-nationals.
Capital Punishment is a demonstration of a State’s Power over the Domestic population.
It serves the State as an Object Lesson to the People providing Intimidation and Control.
That capital punishment is Satan’s power through people. Jesus in us gives life, and other good things.
mike spindell:
they just paid for most of the politicians in this country. Maybe now we can go back to having our politicians bought by Americans for Americans.