Do not take unbelievers as Psychic Friends...
But only if a court orders it. That makes it ok, you see. "Death for TV 'sorcerers' ," from the Straits Times, September 15:
RIYADH - A SENIOR Saudi cleric has said purveyors of horoscopes on Arab television should face the death penalty, a paper said on Sunday, days after another cleric urged the same fate for channel owners who broadcast 'indecent' shows.
'Sorcerers who appear on satellite channels who are proven to be sorcerers have committed a great crime ... and the Muslim consensus is that the apostate's punishment is death by the sword,' Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan told al-Madina daily.
He said it.
'Those who call in to these shows should not be accorded Muslim rites when they die,' the prominent cleric added.
Many of the hundreds of Arab satellite channels that have sprung up in recent years specialise in horoscopes and other advice to callers on solving problems that is seen by some religious authorities as 'sorcery'.
In their capacity as judges, clerics of Saudi Arabia's austere form of Islam often sentence 'sorcerers' to death.
Shiekh Fozan, a member of the Higher Council of Clerics, was responding to a controversy ignited by a Council colleague, Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, who said last week that owners of Arab TV shows should be tried and face death over some shows.
Sheikh Lohaidan, who is the head of Saudi Arabia's Islamic syariah courts, told Saudi radio: 'I want to advise the owners of these channels that broadcast programmes with indecency and vulgarity and warn them of the consequences ... They can be put to death through the judicial process.'
He was referring to comedy shows and soap operas airing in Ramadan, a month of fasting when Muslims are supposed to focus on God. Critics say Ramadan has become an orgy of food and television consumption once the fast ends at sunset.
Sheikh Lohaidan appeared on Saudi state television on Saturday night to clarify his statement, saying he did not suggest satellite owners should be killed without a trial.
'No one should expect that I would rush to judgement, as has been falsely suggested, and say I had ruled that satellite owners be killed,' he said in the remarks, which were published on an Islamist website on Sunday. He added that courts could impose a death penalty.
Fozan said entertainment channel owners should be 'banished' but stopped short of advocating the death penalty for them.
Witch trials no less!
Is it possible that our compatriots on the left are ever going to get it that these people are not their friends?
So another "scholar/mullah/imam" has chimed in on the evils of the boob-toob.
Jeez, Louise! Are these "scholars" so stupid to not see the solution to their problems? The Perfect Pervert did haven't electricity, television, and satellites in his desert tents, so why should modern muslims enjoy these innovations from the West?
What a bunch of f**ing hypocrites!
yeah, that's it: lets bring witch-burning back! Fun for the whole family, after the Friaday afternoon beheadings, hand and foot-chopping and public flogging.
These f*kcers are truly civilizational missionaries. Ask Yusuf, he wouldn't tell a lie:
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/07/24/10-questions-for-yusuf-irfan-civilizational-missionary-from-planet-irf/
Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan then announced a national
campaign to "Keep RAMA in Ramadan."
(a joke after "keep Christ in Christmas")
Quoting the article:
"He was referring to comedy shows and soap operas airing in Ramadan, a month of fasting when Muslims are supposed to focus on God. Critics say Ramadan has become an orgy of food and television consumption once the fast ends at sunset."
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lmao!!! Miss Cleo!!!
islamists are so predictable that anyone can easily second guess what they will do -- kill, kill, and kill in approximately that order.
Does this mean that making such an obvious conclusion qualifies as sorcery?
I predict that it will!
I further predict that anyone who employs the dark arts of either deductive or inductive reasoning will be considered a soothsayer and I predict they will be sentenced to the sword!
joeblough:-
Whether or not the lefties ever get it doesn't really interest me - they're totally irrelevent. My concern is that it's about time that the right gets it. What hope is there when we're treated to film clips of George W. groveling before his saudi masters during his recent trip. How many Christians, Jews, intellectuals etc. do you suppose have been beheaded by that sword he was so cutely waving around? I felt like puking.
Will there ever be a presidential candidate with the guts to stand up and tell it like it is -islam and freedom can never coexist?
So is this a demonstration of the notion that Islamic "scholars" have way too much time on their hands?