Sri Lankan woman held for "witchcraft" in Saudi Arabia, faces beheading

It is hard not to treat stories like this as jokes. But for this poor woman, there is no joke. Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "Sri Lankan held for 'witchcraft' in Saudi Arabia," from Reuters, April 18 (thanks to Sparta):

(Reuters) - A Sri Lankan woman has been arrested on suspicion of casting a spell on a 13-year-old girl during a Saudi family's shopping trip, a police spokesman said on Wednesday, and may face death in a country where convicted sorcerers are beheaded.

The spokesman, Mesfir al-Juayed, confirmed to Reuters by phone that details of the woman's arrest published in local media were correct.

The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had "suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman" in a large shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah.

"He reported her to the security forces, asking for her arrest and the specialized units dealt with the situation swiftly… and succeeded in arresting her," Okaz reported on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, is an absolute monarchy that has no written criminal code and where court rulings are based on judges' interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.

"The punishment is always beheading for anyone found guilty of witchcraft," a Saudi lawyer and human rights activist, Waleed Abu al-Khair, told Reuters by phone.

In December, Amnesty International condemned the beheading of a woman in Saudi Arabia convicted on charges of "sorcery and witchcraft," saying it underlined the urgent need to end executions in the kingdom.

Amnesty said the execution was the second of its kind last year. A Sudanese national was beheaded in the Saudi city of Medina in September after being convicted on sorcery charges, according to the London-based group.

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Bu... bu... bu... but lets try to divert the attention from stories like this by bringing up made up stuff like "Islamophobia".

But what if the sorceress is casting spells on non-believers to get them to convert to Islam? Maybe some of the many Coptic girls kidnapped and forced to convert ought to accuse their kidnappers of using sorcery on them.

Muslims are always afraid of witchcraft or what they call "the evil one" (aka Satan).
Muhammad himself used to wear a talisman to ward off the "Evil Eye". Nevertheless he admittedly received a message from Satan and delivered it to the people...as if it were from God!!!

Do they really need to be so scared of this "evil one"? Here is what their own "holy" book had to say about the Power of Satan:

"Shall I inform you, (O people!), on whom it is that the evil ones descend? They descend on every lying, wicked person" Qur'an 26:221-222

So dear muslim, relax, don't worry and be happy. You are protected from "the evil one" unless, like Muhammad, you are a "lying, wicked person"!!!

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/muhammad-and-satan_24.html

I think we should be more tolerant of their culture and religion for the protection of diversity that has been so useful to USA historically. We should not report anywhere this beheading of innocent people in Saudi Arabia or other similiar traditionals undertakings in the muslim world to be respectful to their way of life like they are to our's. We should be all silenced not to insult EVIL.

Apparently, you can just accuse any non-Saudi of anything. Or should I say - any infidel?

We should have no relations with Saudi Arabia or any other country that practices this sort of barbarism.

How exactly was daughter behaving, that made Daddy call it strange? Was daughter complaining that Daddy had been touching her in the wrong places again?

saudi girl: she turned me into a newt.

saudi judge: but you don't look like one.

saudi girl: well I got better.

saudi judge: good, now lets behead the witch!

I wonder if they put a hat and a nose on her to make her look like a witch.

They must have used that wonderful "islamic science" and determined that she weighed the same as a duck therefore proving she's a witch.

What a bunch of mucking forons.

probably,
Perhaps they want to do the zamzam water test. Put her in the zamzam water, if she sinks and drown the water has accepted and she is innocent, and if she floats, the water has rejected her and she is guilty of witchcraft and must be be headed.

thats islam, stuck in 7th century, and they are our best friends?

So who should we be alerting?

If enough fuss is kicked up in the West these unfortunate people are sometimes saved, because the barbarians get embarrassed about being so... barbaric!.

But who should we be contacting?

A father accused a woman in a mall of witchcraft after his daughter acted differently (Talked back? Expressed an opinion? Looked her father in the eye?) "after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman." For this, the woman was arrested and charged and in danger of being beheaded. Under Sharia law, there is no standard of proof, no reasonableness, just the strength of the allegation. It is a what-would-Muhammad-do? situation as the "trial" is a hearing to compare the allegation with the Qur'an and the Sunnah. If the poor woman is not Muslim, then she has no credibility in a Muslim court.

Clive Stafford Smith at Reprieve. I thìnk the onus is on him.

Anders Breivik, who took 77 lives in attacks last July, said Monday he wanted to apologize for killing “innocent” people in his Oslo bombing, but not for the Utoeya massacre.

Breivik said: “I would like to offer a large apology” to those who were just passing by and had no political connections, but who were injured or killed in the bombing of an Oslo government building, where eight people died.

Read more: http://www.maghrebchristians.com/2012/04/23/breivik-offers-apology-for-his-non-political-victims-says-no-regrets-for-others/#ixzz1sr6ip36x

Youssef

After decimating the syrian ruling criminals, freedom lovers all over the world should help saudi citizens in whatever way they can, and send the whole lot of Saudi Royal Family go the Libya's Gadaffi way. Those monsters are the fountain head of terrorism alongwith Pakistan

Having raised a daughter to adulthood, I believe all 13 year old girls act in an "abnormal way", no witchcraft required.

"He reported her to the security forces, asking for her arrest and the specialized units dealt with the situation swiftly… and succeeded in arresting her,"
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They actually have "specialized units" trained to deal with this situation. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. And these heroic special forces SUCCEEDED in arresting the 13-year old girl! I wonder how many of them were injured in the struggle she put up?

Apparently it is perfectly legal in the netherworld of SA to believe in sorcery and witchcraft, but illegal to practice them. If the practice of witchcraft and sorcery are an affront to islam and its all-powerful, demonic deity, it seems to me that believing in their (non-existent) powers would also be an insult, indicative of belief in other gods. These atavistic morons who simultaneously exist in the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century are so riduculous that they defy belief.

Probably that father tried to behave in an imodest way with that Srilankan women in that mall ,and she resisted it,and he wanted to punish her in this way! In Pakistan,Muslims take hold of the Blasphemy laws to take revenge on minority Christian,Jewish,Hindu and Ahmediyyas during petty quarrels.
But if anything happens to that Srilankan woman,if she happens to be a Tamil Srilankan,her people will take revenge on Arabs outside.Never heard of the women suicide bombers in Tamil Tiger reiment?.

Thanks for all your hard work, ROBERT.
It looks as though the "religion of pieces" will take apart another human.
As the musloids should be shouting, "pieces will be you!!!"

Muslims are the minority in Sri Lanka; the majority of Sri Lankans are Buddhist, with some Hindus and some Christians.

It's statistically more likely that this poor Sri Lankan woman is a Hindu or Buddhist from Sri Lanka than that she is a Muslim; many such women work as maids in the Abominable Realm of Saud, and are treated abominably. (Quite a few go home in body bags due to having been abused unto death by their Saudi masters and mistresses).

But even if she is a Muslim she is still inferior, being non-Arab, and therefore disposable.

Sri Lankan woman held for "witchcraft" in Saudi Arabia, faces beheading

It is hard not to treat stories like this as jokes. But for this poor woman, there is no joke.
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So true.

More:

The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had "suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman" in a large shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah.
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A 13-year-old acting in an "abnormal way" in a mall? In the civilized world, wouldn't that pretty much be considered an average shopping trip with a teenager? (no offense meant to 13-year-old girls, of course...)

But, of course, it is the fault of some random non-Arab bystander, who is likely also an Infidel...

More:

"He reported her to the security forces, asking for her arrest and the specialized units dealt with the situation swiftly… and succeeded in arresting her," Okaz reported on Wednesday.
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They were able to arrest a single unarmed woman—what brave policemen! Note that the word of a Saudi Muslim was enough to get this poor woman arrested, and likely enough to get her beheaded, as well...

And all of this show is probably the father's ploy to frighten his daughter into obedience as much as anything.

More:

"The punishment is always beheading for anyone found guilty of witchcraft," a Saudi lawyer and human rights activist, Waleed Abu al-Khair, told Reuters by phone.
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And how do they "find anyone guilty" on such a fanciful charge? Certainly not by using any objective rules of evidence...

But that doesn't hinder the Saudi courts:

In December, Amnesty International condemned the beheading of a woman in Saudi Arabia convicted on charges of "sorcery and witchcraft"...

Amnesty said the execution was the second of its kind last year. A Sudanese national was beheaded in the Saudi city of Medina in September after being convicted on sorcery charges...

Lakahmanan wrote:

After decimating the syrian ruling criminals, freedom lovers all over the world should help saudi citizens in whatever way they can, and send the whole lot of Saudi Royal Family go the Libya's Gadaffi way. Those monsters are the fountain head of terrorism alongwith Pakistan
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What? With respect, how can you suppose that the "Islamists" fighting in Syria—who are already violently driving out Christians in Homs—are likely to be any sort of improvement over the Alawite regime?

And what makes you believe that many "Saudi citizens" are clamoring for an end to this sort of injustice under Shari'ah? One of the most frequent criticisms laid at the Saudi regime by Muslims is that they have too many ties to the US and the rest of the West—not that they are running a bloody Shari'ah state.

The exact same thing is true with the Pakistan. If *that* admittedly appalling regime were overthrown, it would likely be replaced not by Jeffersonian democrats, but by *the Taliban*.

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