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Oh, Saudi Arabia, you and your crazy religous police

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@Li3n

@Li3n

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8598134.stm

Death 'looms for Saudi sorcerer'
By Sebastian Usher
BBC News, London


The lawyer for a Lebanese man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft has appealed for international help to save him.

Ali Sabat was the host of a popular Lebanese TV show in which he predicted the future and gave advice.
He was arrested by religious police on sorcery charges while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2008.
His lawyer, May el-Khansa, says she has been told Mr Sabat is due to be executed this week.
Ms Khansa has contacted the Lebanese president and prime minister to appeal on his behalf.
There has been no official confirmation from Saudi Arabia, but executions there are often carried out with little warning.


Mr Sabat did make a confession, but Ms Khansa says he only did so because he had been told he could go back to Lebanon if he did.
Human rights groups have accused the Saudis of \\"sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police\\".
An Egyptian working as a pharmacist in Saudi Arabia was executed in 2007 after having been found guilty of using sorcery to try to separate a married couple.

There is no legal definition of witchcraft in Saudi Arabia, but horoscopes and fortune telling are condemned as un-Islamic.
Nevertheless, there is still a big thirst for such services in the country where widespread superstition survives under the surface of strict religious orthodoxy.


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SpecialKO

SpecialKO

What the fuck....


#3

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

It is a valid cultural difference to behead a foreign tourist.


#4



Kitty Sinatra

Perhaps we could be John Edward a plane ticket?


#5



Dusty668

Maybe Madame Cleo can help.


#6



Totally Not Soliloquy

he should have seen it coming


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