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What century is this?

smg97791smg97791 Posts: 151
edited April 2010 in A Moving Train
I could have sworn it was the 21st century, I think I'm off by at least a few hundred years.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/03/ ... index.html
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  • StarfallStarfall Posts: 548
    (CNN) -- Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to stop the execution of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery."
    In a statement released Thursday, the international rights group condemned the verdict and demanded the immediate release of Ali Hussain Sibat, former host of a popular call-in show that aired on Sheherazade, a Beirut based satellite TV channel.
    According to his lawyer, Sibat, who is 48 and has five children, would predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience.
    The attorney, May El Khansa, who is in Lebanon, tells CNN her client was arrested by Saudi Arabia's religious police (known as the Mutawa'een) and charged with sorcery while visiting the country in May 2008. Sibat was in Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic religious pilgrimage known as Umra.


    I was going to write how the concept of "religious police" was just so backwards and so outlandish...and then I remember the loons trying to censor textbooks in Texas.
    Still, I wouldn't be averse to long jail sentences to the producers of all those inane reality shows we're subjected to all the time :lol:
    "It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, "Stardust"
  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Sorcery is a genuine charge in Saudi Arabia? This sort of thing should probably not shock me, yet it does.
  • SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,524
    There something like 70 public beheadings in Saudi Arabia last year. Wonder how many were due to sorcery.

    At least Christians had the decency to slowly burn them at the stake.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    Allowing your State to get away with this is the crime, its the principal behind "consent of the governed" and the idea that ultimately the people have the power, whatever the structure of the State.


    And notice Saudi Arabia (although it doesn't make as much money as Wall Mart) is very high on the list of US funds. You and I as taxpayers support shit like this, so in a sense we share some responsibility for this idiocy, as Americans.

    Its empire, the world's first truly global empire, and its been spread primarily with dollars, through the IMF and WB, institutions from which rulers can separate themselves. Nobody seems to really know about it, but there is control in debt, especially when a state's military and police are bankrolled by US tax dollars, through institutions like the IMF and WB. Its direct control of violence, the power of the state, however indirectly the funds are distributed. And its global.
  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Smellyman wrote:
    There something like 70 public beheadings in Saudi Arabia last year. Wonder how many were due to sorcery.

    At least Christians had the decency to slowly burn them at the stake.

    "Had" being the operative word here. Like the OP asked, what century is this? Fuck.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Frightening. A bunch of sick fucks over there to allow something like that to happen.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    he turned me into a newt!!!!!!!!!!!

    well....i got better
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,524
    rebornFixer wrote:
    Smellyman wrote:
    There something like 70 public beheadings in Saudi Arabia last year. Wonder how many were due to sorcery.

    At least Christians had the decency to slowly burn them at the stake.

    "Had" being the operative word here. Like the OP asked, what century is this? Fuck.

    I know, but turn this country into a theocracy like the baggers want and we will get to see some stake burning again
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    We are not an advanced civilization.. we just evolved a step above the pecking order of species.. but certainly not better.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • cajunkiwicajunkiwi Posts: 984
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    he turned me into a newt!!!!!!!!!!!

    well....i got better

    'tis but a flesh wound...
    And I listen for the voice inside my head... nothing. I'll do this one myself.
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    rebornFixer wrote:
    Smellyman wrote:
    There something like 70 public beheadings in Saudi Arabia last year. Wonder how many were due to sorcery.

    At least Christians had the decency to slowly burn them at the stake.

    "Had" being the operative word here. Like the OP asked, what century is this? Fuck.

    So Waco is to far back in history?? So they weren't burned at the stakes, they still burned them and the ones who did it WERE Christians right??????
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    Cuz we never did anything like that. Us Americans are rightious and moral. Were god fearing people. :roll:
    Give me a break. We rip on other countries for being savages yet we only look through American eyes. And then we forget Waco, we forget how many lives we've touched around the world with our awesome "smart bombs." Ya the Saudis have a fucked up government with NO democracy yet we seem to be ok with that. You don't see us "freeing" the Saudis under a brutal regime. Hmmmm, I wonder why???
  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    badbrains wrote:
    Cuz we never did anything like that. Us Americans are rightious and moral. Were god fearing people. :roll:
    Give me a break. We rip on other countries for being savages yet we only look through American eyes. And then we forget Waco, we forget how many lives we've touched around the world with our awesome "smart bombs." Ya the Saudis have a fucked up government with NO democracy yet we seem to be ok with that. You don't see us "freeing" the Saudis under a brutal regime. Hmmmm, I wonder why???

    If you want to go start a thread about how fucked up Waco was, go for it. I'll even post my agreement with you in there. What does the US have to do with Saudi in this case? Why get defensive, unless you too happen to agree that sorcery is a valid charge of wrongdoing?
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Thats what I was going to say, why do we compare this to the United States?
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    I just made a potion to make myself invisible in this thread... Pooof.
    rebornFixer wrote:
    If you want to go start a thread about how fucked up Waco was, go for it. I'll even post my agreement with you in there. What does the US have to do with Saudi in this case? Why get defensive, unless you too happen to agree that sorcery is a valid charge of wrongdoing?
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Thats what I was going to say, why do we compare this to the United States?

    Why not? If were going to pretend to be the police of the world and hold ourselves above everybody else in the world, then we shouldn't be talking shit about anybody else. We have plenty of our own problems. Now I'll do my magic and disappear like the other member.....poof/gone off to fantacy island with tatoo or whatever the fuck his name was.....
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