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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Saudi Arabia abracadabra; look, no head!

42 beheadings this year in the land of two holy places, this last one due to the accuse practicing magic and sorcery.  Our friends the Saudis seem to have Islam all wrong, and are practicing sharia in a way completely against what Western Islamic apologists tell us. I wonder why that is?


From Now Lebanon September 19

Saudi Arabia beheads Sudanese “sorcerer”

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sudanese man by sword in the western city of Medina on Monday after he was convicted of practicing sorcery, the Interior Ministry announced.


Abdul Hamid al-Fakki "practiced witchcraft and sorcery," which are illegal under Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia law, said a ministry statement carried by state news agency SPA.


In October last year, Amnesty International said it had appealed to King Abdullah in a letter to commute Fakki's death sentence.


His execution brings to 42 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP tally based on official and human rights group reports.


In June, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks.


It said 15 people were executed in May alone.


Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.

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