TV show host gets death sentence for 'sorcery'.

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Lebanon isn't getting pissed about this? I know America would have a cow..........

Forget it, Jake. Its Chinatown.

What does that mean???

Don't ask too many questions;
You don't want to know what happens to nosy people.

Ah, how perishable the pop culture:

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[lost_n_confuzd 0]

Another "justified" punishment?

King Abdullah should be assassinated. While we're at it let's take out Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il.

[ibx 2]

What if we look at it this way ? I am not saying this is what I believe.

But if the guy really believes he is practicing black magic, and so do the judges and this is forbidden by the local law. The same law(Koran) that his black magic is based on.

Then everybody agrees ? So whats the problem ?

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Not everyone in Saudi believes the same thing... painting "everyone" or "everything" with a single brush just isn't right.
http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article32074.ece

Aw come on now, they're having a good muslim-lynching here.
If you know what's best for you, you won't get in their way...

So John, you've got nothing against capital punishment for sorcery?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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>This useless country only exists because of it oil. Its one of the few
>countries in the world that leaches off society and contributes nothing.

And yet we keep giving them billions to top off our SUV's.

Don't blame me, All my vehicles get 30-50MPG and I'm going to buy an electric car as soon as Tesla's become affordable

"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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Have you been to Saudi Quade?

The Religious Police are far from secret. They have uniforms and stand out on the street. Everyone knows who they are and where they are. Nothing secret about it.

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What I find almost as disturbing as the sentence is that the people in charge of that country actually believe it is possible to foretell the future. If they didn't it would be no big deal and they would view the guy as just another entertainer or, at worst, a goofball.

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I know crazy ain't it?

and there are also people over here that belive in virgin births (well one at least) and folks rising from the dead..... The world is sure populated by loonies.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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What I find almost as disturbing as the sentence is that the people in charge of that country actually believe it is possible to foretell the future. If they didn't it would be no big deal and they would view the guy as just another entertainer or, at worst, a goofball.

Hi Drafty,
Ain't that sumptin'!! Yer' kin always tell a Saudi, but yer' kain't tell em' much!! The ability to use inductive deductive reasoning does not exist over there!! If ya' been there ya' know what I mean. How we and they precieve reality are very different. It kinda' reminds me of a concept from Robert Ruark's book,"The Old man's boy grows older" where he's big game hunting in Africa and he remarks about the natives with them believed that it was the "sound" or "noise" from the rifle that killed the animal, not the impact of the high speed projectile propelled by exploding gun powder in the barrel of the rifle!!! Go figure??.......
The "Stone Age" still has not arrived in some places on this planet!!

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You said this in this thread:

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What I find almost as disturbing as the sentence is that the people in charge of that country actually believe it is possible to foretell the future.

And you said this in another thread about religious institutions enforcing their beliefs:

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It is also your right to say it's ridiculous, but that doesn't mean you are right. It is their right to say your opinion is ridiculous, but it doesn't mean they are right.

So is it your position that religious beliefs are only disturbing when they're believed and enforced by government?

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I know crazy ain't it?

and there are also people over here that belive in virgin births (well one at least) and folks rising from the dead..... The world is sure populated by loonies.

Don't forget the flying reindeer.

Oh wait, we fess up to our young about that one before they reach puberty.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[shropshire 0]

Wait .... you sayin' they caint fly?

I'm always behind the loop on these things. What about all them other superstitions about angels an' all?

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[lawrocket 3]

The guy must have been right an awful lot! I mean, of he was wrong then he could say, "I'm never right. Obviously, I'm not a black magician. My predictions are wrong so often I could be a political commentator."

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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Have you been to Saudi Quade?

The Religious Police are far from secret. They have uniforms and stand out on the street. Everyone knows who they are and where they are. Nothing secret about it.

Secret in the same sense the Secret Service is; people know they exist, but their internal machinations not open.

quade -
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And yet we keep giving them billions to top off our hybrids

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants