Do not blaspheme!

[Bateluer]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/07/world/meast/saudi-arabia-australian-sentenced/index.html?hpt=hp_bn4

Australia appealed for leniency after one of its citizens was sentenced Wednesday to 500 lashes and a year in prison by a Saudi Arabian court.

Mansor Almaribe, 45, was found guilty of blasphemy after he was arrested last month in Medina while on a pilgrimage, Australian officials said.

It's unclear what Almaribe, a Shia Muslim from Victoria state, said or did to get arrested.\


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Australian officials said they were informed he was convicted of blasphemy and "making comments insulting to prophet Mohammed's relatives."

His sentence was originally two years imprisonment along with the 500 lashes, but the court reduced the sentence by a year, consular officials said. It was unclear when the lashing punishment will be carried out.

Blasphemy is punishable by up to a death sentence under the strict Muslim law in Saudi Arabia.

Ouch.

 

[SlitheryDee]

That's so indescribably stupid.

 

[mmntech]

The West: modern medicine, space program, electronics & electricity, scientific method, constitutional democracy, rule of law, universal human rights.

Saudi Arabia: whip you if you make fun of their god, don't allow women to do anything, and dinosaur goo.

 

[Kadarin]

You don't want to blaspheme in Pakistan either. In fact, in Pakistan if you advocate reforming those blasphemy laws you are likely to get killed, and your killer is likely to be regarded as a national hero.

Islam is a fucked up religion, and it certainly doesn't add anything positive to the human condition.

 

[zinfamous]

Islam is a fucked up religion, and it certainly doesn't add anything positive to the human condition.

Well, that's just silly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_contributions_to_Medieval_Europe

This is a problem of a theocracy, more than it is an issue with one particular religion. You give any backwards-ass religion such power, it will run you over and bend you to its will.

That being said, all of these Islamic nations are fucked in the head. Had they no oil, I think the religion would essentially be dead, with these nations floundering in poverty.