This is like sentencing to death Carnac the Magnificent. Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "TV Presenter On Death Row For Witchcraft," from Sky News, November 24 (thanks to Peter):
A man has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft because he makes predictions on television.Ali Sibat is not even a Saudi national. The Lebanese citizen was only visiting Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage when he was arrested in Medina last year.
A court in the city condemned him as a witch on November 9.
The only evidence presented in court was reportedly the claim he appeared regularly on Lebanese satellite issuing general advice on life and making predictions about the future.
The case is causing outrage among human rights campaigners but has made little news elsewhere despite the ludicrous nature of the charges and the extraordinary severity of Sibat's sentence.
"Saudi courts are sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
"The crime of witchcraft is being used against all sorts of behavior, with the cruel threat of state sanctioned executions."...
a man/women going to the land of sowdis are on their own, and deserve no better treatment. time to wake up and smell the coffee, sowdi and humane do not go together. stay away!
Not surprising in a patch of inbred bedouin savage desert where a recent "scientific" breakthrough "proved" that epilepsy wasn't caused by jinn and therefore was to be treated with medicine and not through Mein-Qurampf recitation.
Mad imams everyday make predictions that Islam is going to dominate the world. So why don't the Saudi authorities target these guys? Oh, I get it....
It isn't clear whether he made 'psychic predictions' of a sort or whether he was doing a comedy routine or if his predictions were based on some kind of logical criteria. If he was simply claiming psychic power than he is indeed a sorcerer and should be put to death according to the Koran which is the perfect and unchanging law of Allah for man and is supposed to be the law of Saudi Arabia.
And we thought; how archaic and bizarre where the Salem Witchcraft trials of 1692 where at least 18 people where hung for the practice.
And yet here we are over 400 years later and amazingly such incredible nonsense exists in a modern world except in the backward nations of the Middle East. The thought of even taking stock in such nonsense which for the most of us is viewed as nothing more then entertainment then anything else is unbelievable in this age.
Well, he certainly did not see this one coming his way.
And to think President Obama bows to the King of Saudia Arabia who leads one of the most backward, and intolerant countries on the planet. Take the oil away and they would still be in the stone age, and still the Middle East has never reached any form of enlightenment in a modern world.
Wiccans keep out...
This kind of treatment will pzz off the worlds real witches...
Voodoo dolls of King Abdullah will become popular...Islam has no defense against a well pinned voodoo doll...
Watch out Russel Brand, you are next !
The middle ages are back? Oh, wait, its Islam.
"Islam has no defense against a well pinned voodoo doll..."
Maybe we should be using them as part of the Gitmo interrogation procedures. Bring in a couple of experts from Haiti, which is practically next-door, for advice; and ostentationally take some hair- and nail-clippings from each prisoner. And be sure to let it slip what they were being used for.
Imagine a Christian sect condemning one of its own as a witch?...the Libs would be hysterical, validating every bigoted thought they ever had about Christianity. But because the medieval transgression is to be perpetrated by Muslims, the silence will be deafening.
The ugly face of multiculturalism.
Wow, hearing Frank sing this morning kinda cheered me up.
The orchestra's not too shabby, either!
Brings to mind a time period basically Mohammedan-free. For us, anyway.
But Cornelius, in the 17th century Christians did hang witches. Sooo, that means we can't say anything now. And we also dropped bombs on Hiroshima and killed the "red indians". Soooo, we did it too.
/extreme sarcasm
It's the paranoid arcane minds of the ideology conjuring up images of the devil (jinn) in their midst.Either that or they can't stand the competition.
Double, double (t)oil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Ooooh,scaarry..
Under Canada's criminal code, pretending to do witchcraft is illegal (actually doing it is OK, i guess, you're just not supposed to knowingly fake it). However, I don't recall ever hearing about anyone actually being arrested for this.
This is so stupid and backwards and childish, words escape me.
I wouldn't want to be a weatherman in Saudi Arabia.
"But Cornelius, in the 17th century Christians did hang witches. Sooo, that means we can't say anything now."
Yes, we can. We say "We progressed. Meanwhile, the Muslims are still stoning girls and women in Muslim countries."
Yuri Geller as well better watch out and he is Jewish too boot !
Seriously, I stand back in amazement at the sheer barbarity of these heathens. They have all the trappings of modernity but are still the same camel shaggers that they ever were. Why is this not publicised all you would have to do is to reveal/report the bare facts and let people make thier own minds up.
By the way to anyone who makes any comment on this "I knew you were going to say that"
PsychicKuffar
Often I hear the argument that Christians have moved on from the days of religious wars (e.g., Thirty Years War, though this war, as with almost all European religious wars, had many political overtones to it) and the burning of witches (e.g., Salem in 1692) so why can't Islam? On the surface it seems a fair argument but when one takes a second look and sees that Christianity in theory doesn't condone killings in its name or subordination of non-believers but Islam in theory does, then the argument falls apart fairly quickly. Christianty is an enlightend religion and one only has to worry about individual Christians going awry, which is almost non-existent anymore. Islam, by contrast, is not enlightened and so it presents far more of a threat to societies than Christianty. Islam is locked in stone and is full of bad ideas. Can't get rid of these. What bad ideas does Christianity have which pose mortal threats to world order? I know of none.
Nice Sinatra song.
How about "That Old Voodoo That You Do So Well"?
Or the Cary Grant routine:
A: "You remind me of a man."
B: "A man? What man?"
A: "A man with a power."
B: "What power?"
A: "The power of hoodoo."
B: "Who do?"
A: "You do."
B: "Do what?"
A: "Remind me of a man."
B: "A man? What man?"
repeat as often as you like.
Nice Sinatra song.
How about "That Old Voodoo That You Do So Well"?
Or the Cary Grant routine:
A: "You remind me of a man."
B: "A man? What man?"
A: "A man with a power."
B: "What power?"
A: "The power of hoodoo."
B: "Who do?"
A: "You do."
B: "Do what?"
A: "Remind me of a man."
B: "A man? What man?"
repeat as often as you like.
most wiccans would not be anywhere near a Muslim country's legal system the heck with there practicing witch craft there views on women s rights and sex would get them torn apart by Muslim mobs and as for the witchcraft wicans follow the 3 fold law and believe in doing unto others as you would have them do unto you IMO 100 percent of the fanatics that make up the religious cops in sudia Arabia could not tell a wiccan from the fake
Wellington,
Your point is as usual right on. The only qualifier would be to insist that the New Testament supersedes the Old.
"The only evidence presented in court was reportedly the claim he appeared regularly on Lebanese satellite issuing general advice on life and making predictions about the future"
What did he do?....say "stay away from Muslims lest they seek you out to kill?"
Wellington
On the Thirty Year War, it's worth noting that even though it was started by a revolt by Protestant Bohemia against Catholic Austria, France, which at that time persecuted their Hugenots, fought on the Protestant side. Somehow, Cardinal Richelieu missed the memo that this was the Catholic faithful vs the Protestants.
Cardinal Richelieu was concerned first and foremost with French power and the last thing he could allow is for the Hapsburgs in Austria (specifically Ferdinand II and then Ferdinand III) to make the Holy Roman Emperorship as powerful as it was in the eleventh century under a monarch like Henry III. That's why he financially backed the Danes, then the Swedes and finally had French troops enter the fray from 1635 onwards. He knew exactly what he was doing (always did in everything-----one shrewd cookie was Richelieu). Nonetheless, it is indeed deeply ironic that a French Cardinal was of paramount importance in insuring that the Calvinist and Lutheran sections of Germay would remain such.
Hush.....Saudis are the center of the diversity universe. Without the Saudis (worlds most pure Muslims, the envy of abds and non Gulf Muslims) what would the world be? Besides, the American leaders the Saudis do not know are owned by other commercial needs.