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Sharia Saudi Arabia: Man gets 10 years prison, 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam”

May 8, 2014 10:06 am By Robert Spencer

Raef BadawiIf foes of the freedom of speech like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, Reza Aslan’s Aslan Media, and John Esposito’s Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding get their way, these kinds of laws will come eventually come to the U.S. But there is no need for them here now: the defamation and character assassination of anyone and everyone who speaks out against jihad terror does the same job quite nicely.

“Saudi liberal gets 10 years in jail, 1,000 lashes,” Al Arabiya, May 8, 2014 (thanks to Pedro):

A Saudi court sentenced Raef Badawi, the founder of a liberal Internet forum, to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes Wednesday over allegations of “insulting Islam.”

Badawi, was also ordered to pay a fine of one million riyals ($266,666/191,846 euros), the website’s co-founder Suad al-Shamari, told AFP.

In August last year a court sentenced Badawi to seven years and three months in jail in addition to 600 flogs “for establishing a liberal website and adopting the liberal thinking and insulting Islam,” according to Saudi media reports.

But a higher court overturned that decision and ordered a retrial by a different court.

Last month, a Saudi court in Jeddah ordered the permanent closure of the website for publishing what was perceived as anti-Islamic content, the Saudi news website Sabq reported.

Sabq said a number of Saudis had demanded the closure of the Saudi Liberal Network for posting stories and comments that are considered against religion and morality.

The website said the court’s decision “prompted good reactions by many of those who had called for such an action and had filed lawsuits against the network and its members.”

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  1. john spielman says

    May 8, 2014 at 10:12 am

    ISLAM: WHERE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SATAN IS EMBRACED

  2. Buraq says

    May 8, 2014 at 10:36 am

    i – irrational
    s – sadistic
    l – loopy
    a – asinine
    m – malevolent

    Clowns! (Be sure to print yourself a T-shirt with the above description!)

    • Reality Check says

      May 8, 2014 at 10:50 am

      You should copyright it.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      May 8, 2014 at 11:26 am

      I would change “l – loopy” to “l – lacivious.” Islam has been all about sex since the beginning with that old hairy horn dog the Holy Prophet Mohammed.

      • JOHN SPIELMAN says

        May 8, 2014 at 11:44 am

        That should be the “UNholy FALSE prophet Mohammed!

  3. Myxlplik says

    May 8, 2014 at 10:50 am

    “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
    Thomas Paine

    “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”

    Thomas Paine

    Time to boycott Saudi Arabia yet?

    • john spielman says

      May 8, 2014 at 10:52 am

      Time to BOYCOTT ISLAM!
      SAY NO TO ISLAM

      • john spielman says

        May 8, 2014 at 10:53 am

        ISLAM: turning people in hounds of hell

        • Myxlplik says

          May 8, 2014 at 11:22 am

          In just several generations we have gone from, Thomas Paine to…

          “The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

          Barrack Obama

  4. Jay Boo says

    May 8, 2014 at 10:51 am

    Using Islamic logic against Islam
    — CAIR Website (10 years in jail, 1,000 lashes)
    — Owning a Qur’an (10 years in jail, 1,000 lashes)

    Burn a Qur’an whenever free speech in trampled in the Islamic world.
    Oh! … now the so called moderate Muslims and their leftist supporters have an issue with this.

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    May 8, 2014 at 11:20 am

    1,000 lashes!!! Will it be open to the public? Will his family be invited to attend, including his mother? 1,000 lashes. This means it will go on and on…..and on. It will last even longer than the whipping scene from the “The Passion of the Christ.” 1,000 lashes. The god, Allah, is most merciful. It could have been a death sentence….but Mr. Badawi has a chance to live, doesn’t he? Listen! Once again, I hear the laughter.

    • Islamisdeath says

      May 8, 2014 at 3:56 pm

      It’s a death sentence. They are going to kill him in agony. Isla and Muslims are sadists

    • Aardvark says

      May 8, 2014 at 6:39 pm

      They don’t do them all at once. They will stretch it out by giving him 50 lashes per week, for 20 weeks. Five months.

      Islam is the most inhumane cult on the planet.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 8, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Saudi Arabia is our ally, at least they were before Prez Barack Hussein screwed them over on behalf of Persia, a deal he and his party need for electoral purposes. Either way, they’ve got the oil and we’ve got to respect their cultural traditions.

    • john spielman says

      May 8, 2014 at 11:29 am

      No we don’t have to respect them nor their religious traditions nor buy their filthy oil (which is used to fund mosques in the US -WHICH IN TURN TEACH SEDITION AGAINST THE US, AND EVERY THING THAT IS GOOD!)
      Turn to Canada and the vast oil /tar sand deposits which make Canada the second largest oil gas deposit in the world!

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        May 8, 2014 at 1:45 pm

        Actually, Russia has the largest reserves. Trouble is, most of it is in Siberia where extraction is very expensive and financially risky.

        • john spielman says

          May 8, 2014 at 2:56 pm

          some experts put Canada’s known petroleum reserves as larger than Russia and only second to Saudi Arabia

    • eib says

      May 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm

      We were allies with the Soviet Union during ww2, but I can’t say we respected their ideology.
      There is nothing that binds us to be silent when a young person like this is set upon and oppressed.

  7. winoceros says

    May 8, 2014 at 11:32 am

    Robert’s point vis-a-vis academia is the touchpoint. Action is required. Even progressives know these guys are sadistic luddite clowns.

    Let’s find Georgetown’s ten most prominent alumni with Twitter presences, and ask politely what steps they would take to call for the rejection of new infusions of Saudi money, and the removal of this da’wa stain altogether from their program should this man not be released. Wait for each public response, and each of us would retweet where the exposure would have the biggest impact.

    I will start the research, and welcome suggestions. For brevity I will use #jw for trending.

    Who is in?

    Miss you guys.

    winoceros

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      May 8, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      Wino, u r back. Sounds like a good idea.

  8. eib says

    May 8, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    God protect and preserve Mr. Badawi.
    He is innocent.

    • mariam rove says

      May 8, 2014 at 12:38 pm

      no one is innocent when it comes to insulting the so called religion of peace. M

      • eib says

        May 8, 2014 at 4:07 pm

        Try to see him as the Lord Jesus Christ sees him.
        He’s worth a prayer. Two or more even.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          May 8, 2014 at 7:59 pm

          Let us pray that he will do as “Mark Gabriel” did.

          Mark , at a time in his life when he still considered himself a Muslim, was caught questioning aspects of Islam. In Mubarak’s Egypt, he was arrested, and punished on suspicion of harbouring blasphemous thoughts and potentially being an apostate.

          The experience didn’t make him a more pious and submissive Muslim; it had the *opposite* effect. It drove him *further away* from Islam…and furthermore there were one or two mysterious little things that happened, during his imprisonment and torture, that he later came to see as lifesaving interventions by the *real* God, the Biblical God that he met full-on when, some time later, someone gave him a copy of the New Testament.

          Let us pray that 1/ this man’s life may be preserved and 2/ that the experience will *shake him free from Islam altogether*.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    May 8, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    What they [those Muslims] did to the founder of the internet site is further proof that that the foundations and doctrines of Islam are so weak that they can’t stand up to any critism at all.

  10. Islamisdeath says

    May 8, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Where is the depraved Rezali? Surely it must have some words of wisdom on how we are misunderstanding that this is a good thing

  11. Twostellas says

    May 9, 2014 at 12:15 am

    Just look at him. You can see his eyes hold a spirit of generosity and goodness. This cannot stand in Islam. It must kill what is a light to the world, so to speak.

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