No one should be surprised. This is the Qur’an, this is Sharia.
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.” (Qur’an 5:33)
Remember this one the next time someone tells you that anti-Sharia initiatives are “racist” and “Islamophobic.”
“Saudi Arabia carries out a rare CRUCIFIXION on a Myanmar man accused of stabbing a woman to death in her home,” by Charlie Moore, Mailonline, August 8, 2018 (thanks to Paul):
Saudi Arabia has executed and crucified a man who stabbed a woman to death.
The man from Myanmar was beheaded and his body put on display on a cross in Mecca on Wednesday.
Elias Jamaleddeen broke into a woman’s home firing a gun and then stabbed her.
He was convicted of robbing her home and another, attempted rape, and stealing firearms and ammunition.
His conviction was upheld by the courts and his execution was endorsed by King Salman, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said.
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s top executioners, but crucifixions – in which the condemned is usually beheaded and then the body put on display – are rare.
In the first four months of this year, the kingdom executed 48 people, half of them on non-violent drug charges, Human Rights Watch said.
Suspects convicted of terrorism, homicide, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking face the death penalty….