Saudi woman beheaded for practicing witchcraft

[SilthDraeth]

I know it is wrong, but beheading a witch is a lot better than burning them alive.

 

[Kadarin]

Atatürk set the example in Turkey by separating religion from state, and if the majority of oil in the middle east was there instead of Saudi Arabia you would see a different not so backwards religion.

The pendulum in Turkey, sadly, is starting to swing back the other way; the Islamic world is getting more Islamic, not more secular. It appears that Atatürk was unique.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The article does not say, but I really wonder what she was found to have been doing.

Another article had her selling red scarves and vials of a powder.
supposedly the combination was to help someone feel better.

What was in the vials was not stated.

 

[peonyu]

So ? Its the law in Saudi Arabia. Muhammed said that only one religion has a place in Mecca and Medina and it is Islam. She broke that law, how we dont know, but if she was practicing witch craft then she went against Muhammed and suffered the fate for doing so.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Religion of Peace strikes again.

It seems to be more of a Saudi cultural issue. There are lots of Muslims but this sort of thing seems to be a Saudi crazy thing.

 

[Zorkorist]

There's no "Saudi sort of thing." These are the Kings of Saudi Arabia, and what they say goes.

-John

 

[dawp]

apparently she was conning people out of their money claiming she could cure their illnesses for up to $800 a pop.

London-based newspaper al-Hayat quoted a member of the Saudi religious police as saying Nasser was in her 60s. The official claimed she had tricked people into giving her money, claiming that she could cure their illnesses.

According to the report, she apparently charged up to $800 a session.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/12/2011121302059182183.html

 

[woolfe9999]

apparently she was conning people out of their money claiming she could cure their illnesses for up to $800 a pop.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/12/2011121302059182183.html

Which makes even less sense. Either she was a con artist or she actually practiced sorcery. Couldn't really have been both. If she actually "tricked" people into thinking she could heal them, then she should have been punished for fraud, which presumably doesn't carry the death penalty, even in SA.

 

[DirkGently1]

Which makes even less sense. Either she was a con artist or she actually practiced sorcery. Couldn't really have been both. If she actually "tricked" people into thinking she could heal them, then she should have been punished for fraud, which presumably doesn't carry the death penalty, even in SA.

..which is why they went with 'Sorcery' presumably.

They just love killing women in SA that much!

 

[davmat787]

A nice story to ponder over coffee inside while you are waiting for your car to warm up and melt the window ice.

 

[cybrsage]

Which makes even less sense. Either she was a con artist or she actually practiced sorcery. Couldn't really have been both. If she actually "tricked" people into thinking she could heal them, then she should have been punished for fraud, which presumably doesn't carry the death penalty, even in SA.

You can do both at the same time. She does not have to be successful with her sorcery.

 

[rudder]

No wonder my Harry Potter themed store in Riyadh tanked so bad.

 

[SagaLore]

Pretty disgusting that as an ally of the US, we don't pressure them to end this barbaric behavior.

We execute too?

 

[cybrsage]

No wonder my Harry Potter themed store in Riyadh tanked so bad.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I know it is wrong, but beheading a witch is a lot better than burning them alive.

Yea, but now they can't be sure they won't come back. I don't see the point in bringing how humane the sentance was carried out in a discussion about something so ridiculous in the first place.