Religion as compassion in Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi woman has been executed for practising “witchcraft and sorcery”, the country’s interior ministry says.
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.
She wasn’t stoned to death. That’s the compassion.
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.
And we can’t have threats to Islam, because if we did, conservative clerics would be out of a job, and no longer in a position to kill people for theocratic reasons.
Brutal and disgusting. What century are these people living in!?
Brutal and disgusting indeed…
Britain and America should be ashamed of themselves. Saudi is an ‘ally’ afterall.
Where’s the human rights condemnation now?
A convenient ally more like. Makes me ashamed to be British.
You gotta be fucking kidding me.
So, technically, the clerics should be killed as well? Considering that it could be said they’re fortune-tellers, since they claim to know what happens after death.
uuummm … just a minor correction … i think she was beheaded, not that it changes the heinous nature of the act …
“faith healers”
What the fuck, Saudi Arabia?! I don’t want to defend those.
It’s things like this that kind of make me wish magic was real. I’d love to see them try to behead someone who really could summon up a legion of angry witch-demons.
Fatima – no, I know; she was beheaded. I said she was not stoned and that was “compassionate”…which was an angry pseudo-joke.