More barbarity in Saudi

[SteveF]

Another day, another act of unspeakable barbarity by our allies:

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft. In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7244579.stm

[Philosophickle]

The sad thing is that it probably is in public interest that she is executed, as the courts are quoted as saying at the end of the article.

[NeilUnreal]

Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretenses ripped away. God's icy wind will blow.

-- John Proctor, The Crucible

[Jimmy Higgins]

Yeah, what does Saudi Arabia think this is? The late 1700's?

[Tickle Me Mercury]

Another day, another act of unspeakable barbarity by our allies:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7244579.stm

Cool. Hopefully this will only result in an increased revenue stream in their direction.

(Seriously, what's wrong with these people? The only way they can top this is trying people for believing in Heliocentrism!)

[Ryokan]

Saudi Arabia is a hell hole. It really IS like they are living 400 years ago.

[Philosophickle]

Saudi Arabia is a hell whole. It really IS like they are living 400 years ago.

I read Infidel about two months ago and I was truly scared for the people that live there. Scary to think that places like that still exist. At least they don't slaughter babies by the millions like some "enlightened" nations do, though.

[micah4]

This sort of thing reminds me of the hypocrisy of our drawing support for the war in Iraq because "Saddam's a bad guy". But when our "allies" get into this sort of thing (i.e., cozy corporo-fascist crony supporters)- or for that matter, rwanda, or darfur- much, much worse than anything Saddam ever did- we did nothing. Oh, but it's a noble thing, because we're freeing the Iraqi people from this horrible person. If the basis of our foreign policy is to free people from horrible oppressive governments, then there are plenty of places my dollars could be better spent than in Iraq.

[Bill the Cat]

I've been there and yes, it is a hell hole. The few Saudis I got to meet, we were briefed on how to look at them, shake their hand, stand, and sit around them. If we violated any of their rules, we were escorted out of the place we met them. I saw a guy get escorted out for shaking one man's hand with both hands.

[Tickle Me Mercury]

I've been there and yes, it is a hell hole. The few Saudis I got to meet, we were briefed on how to look at them, shake their hand, stand, and sit around them. If we violated any of their rules, we were escorted out of the place we met them. I saw a guy get escorted out for shaking one man's hand with both hands.

The Middle East stands as an example of Mill's discussion on cultures that are imprisoned by custom.

[Conductor42]

I read Infidel about two months ago and I was truly scared for the people that live there. Scary to think that places like that still exist. At least they don't slaughter babies by the millions like some "enlightened" nations do, though.

Instead, they slaughter everyone else.