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[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16150381"]Source BBC[/URL]
[B]A Saudi woman has been executed for practising "witchcraft and sorcery", the country's interior ministry says.[/B]
[B]A statement published by the state news agency said Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was beheaded on Monday in the northern province of Jawf.[/B]
The ministry gave no further details of the charges which the woman faced.
The woman was the second person to be executed for witchcraft in Saudi Arabia this year. A Sudanese man was executed in September.
[B]'Threat to Islam'[/B]
BBC regionalist analyst Sebastian Usher says the interior ministry stated that the verdict against Ms Nasser was upheld by Saudi Arabia's highest courts, but it did not give specific details of the charges.
The London-based newspaper, al-Hayat, quoted a member of the religious police as saying that she was in her 60s and had tricked people into giving her money, claiming that she could cure their illnesses.
Our correspondent said she was arrested in April 2009.
But the human rights group Amnesty International, which has campaigned for Saudis previously sentenced to death on sorcery charges, said it had never heard of her case until now, he adds.
A Sudanese man was executed in September on similar charges, despite calls led by Amnesty for his release.
In 2007, an Egyptian national was beheaded for allegedly casting spells to try to separate a married couple.
Last year, a Lebanese man facing the death penalty on charges of sorcery, relating to a fortune-telling television programme he presented, was freed after the Saudi Supreme Court decreed that his actions had not harmed anyone.
Amnesty says that Saudi Arabia does not actually define sorcery as a capital offence. However, some of its conservative clerics have urged the strongest possible punishments against fortune-tellers and faith healers as a threat to Islam.[/release]
what the fuck
people still believe this shit
Witchcraft and Sorcery are not real.
Still living in the Salem Witch Hunt, eh, Saudi Arabia?
Woman wins argument with man
Witchcraft
Barbarians.
Need a fitting image for OP.
[QUOTE=NateDude;33696639]what the fuck
people still believe this shit[/QUOTE]When you live in a country dominated by fear and superstition, people will believe anything.
[quote]
A statement published by the state news agency said Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was beheaded on Monday in the northern province of Jawf.[/quote]
I had no idea that they still did decapitations as a formal way of execution. That's just horrible.
Respect the Saudi culture. This is what they believe and you're ignorant to say it's wrong.
[QUOTE=NateDude;33696639]what the fuck
people still believe this shit[/QUOTE]
See "Africa" for additional information.
The Nigerians are quite interesting folk for witchcraft fearmongering.
[QUOTE=AnalAnnihilator;33696775]I had no idea that they still did decapitations as a formal way of execution. That's just horrible.[/QUOTE]
Beheading is one of the oldest practices in the world. Middle Eastern culture has always perceived it as being an embarrassment to those who suffer it. It's sort of like when they beat someone with their shoes, or when they bury their corpse in the skin of a sheep (a practice which actually dates all the way back to Ancient Egypt, because sheep were considered to be unclean animals). It's supposed to be humiliating.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33696650]Woman wins argument with man
Witchcraft[/QUOTE]
Woman is single, still
witchcraft!
[QUOTE=stepat201;33696813]Respect the Saudi culture. This is what they believe and you're ignorant to say it's wrong.[/QUOTE]
"Hey guys, did you hear? An innocent woman got executed by the Saudi government for witchcraft!"
"GODDAMN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD I TELLS YA"
[QUOTE=stepat201;33696813]Respect the Saudi culture. This is what they believe and you're ignorant to say it's wrong.[/QUOTE]
Fuck 'em.
[QUOTE=LCBADs;33696838]"Hey guys, did you hear? An innocent woman got executed by the Saudi government for witchcraft!"
"GODDAMN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD I TELLS YA"[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
"Witchcraft and sorcery" Let me guess she learned to read?
[video=youtube;yp_l5ntikaU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU&feature=fvst[/video]
I knew Womens' rights were centuries behind the rest of the world over there, but I didn't know they were this many centuries behind.
good. heresy should not go unpunished
[QUOTE=AnalAnnihilator;33696775]I had no idea that they still did decapitations as a formal way of execution. That's just horrible.[/QUOTE]
Not only that, but thanks to technology, they now RECORD the decapitations as well.
Thats literally like giving a video camera to Vlad the Impaler so he can record his tortures and executions then show it to his friends.
Those sick fucks don't deserve technology if they can't bring themselves out of the stone age.
[QUOTE=stepat201;33696813]Respect the Saudi culture. This is what they believe and you're ignorant to say it's wrong.[/QUOTE]
And you're stupid to defend it.
[FUCK NINJA'd]
*insert monty python video here*
Seriously, what's with today's "modern" logic?
Holy shit, how can you even claim witchcraft in this day and age? That's fucking absurd, no matter your culture.
I'm a level 12 Warmage, the sand-men of the kingdom Neverwater have the right to fear me!!
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;33696742]Need a fitting image for OP.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lev199jbHu1qg4ojzo1_400.jpg[/img]
fuck yall.
Hey guys! My time machine worked.
According to these news I'm currently in the Middle Ages!
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33696650]Woman wins argument with man
Witchcraft[/QUOTE]
In the rest of the world, it's witchcraft if the complete opposite happens.
[QUOTE=TAU!;33697075]In the rest of the world, it's witchcraft if the complete opposite happens.[/QUOTE]
Yes, and the punishment is selibacy.
[QUOTE=AnalAnnihilator;33696857]Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.[/QUOTE]
I know.
Threat to Islam? More like threat to the corrupted self-brainwashed old men and their power.
After reading the article, it makes it seem like even uttering "abra kadabra" could get you arrested and/or killed.
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