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#1140022
Murdin
Don't forget, people - Saudi Arabia are good guys, they're America's allies ! U-S-A ! U-S-A !
We should sentence the whole country to nuclear death for being an autoritarian theocracy practising pedophilia. Along with Vatican City. Well, I don't really think we should, but it sure is tempting.
3/29/2010 12:07:30 AM
#1140039
Canadia
@Murdin
I can't possibly dream of anything tempting about bringing utter ruin to our own habitat over comparatively minor societal issues like this.
Plus, there's thousands of innocents lost for every asshole who would end up getting quoted here.
Now, a more workable method, hit the offenders with a cluebat.
3/29/2010 2:28:53 AM
#1140050
LDM
@moose,
yeah, I've only been awake about 30 minutes, and I've already done at least 5 things that would have me arrested by the Saudi religious police. Of course I'm a female who lives alone, earns my own income and shows my face in public, that should have had me stoned years ago!
Oh and read the "Princess" books by Jean Sasson & Princess Sultana. The Saudi Royal Family breaks their own laws on an hourly basis, including the law against fortune telling.
3/29/2010 3:48:12 AM
#1140054
Brenz
That woman shows a hell of a lot more restraint than I would.
This is why you can't ever have a union of church & state. Because inevitably people get punished over things that are not real, nor even demonstrable.
3/29/2010 4:26:29 AM
#1140064
Mister Spak
To make it worse, this guy does his show in Lebenon. He went to Saudi Arabia for some religious ritual and was arrested there and sentenced to death.
3/29/2010 4:55:04 AM
#1140068
The L
No, it will simply deter people from visiting Saudi Arabia.
3/29/2010 4:59:12 AM
#1140078
LabRat
It may or may not discourage people from doing innocuous sh*t they call 'sorcery' but I think it is also inevitably going to seriously discourage pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
3/29/2010 5:17:39 AM
#1140087
TGRwulg
What the fuc?! I'm speechless.
3/29/2010 6:00:24 AM
#1140090
GigaGuess
@aboveathletics
Only because they can't. Don't think for a second that if they had the opportunity to, that they wouldn't do things like this.
3/29/2010 6:15:48 AM
#1140135
Doubting Thomas
And in the United States, Christian fundies are salivating over wanting to do the same thing to people who sell Harry Potter books and movies.
3/29/2010 7:50:15 AM
#1140151
El Zorro
Prosecuting someone for sorcery just shows how backwards you are as a country. The only ones who deserves punishment are the people who fall for the tricks, and they punish themselves by paying for the crap.
3/29/2010 8:48:01 AM
#1140164
Horsefeathers
Yet another reason religion and government should be kept as far apart as possible.
3/29/2010 9:19:01 AM
#1140191
Murdin
@Canadia : well, all the things that you've listed are the reasons why I said we really shouldn't envision it for real, as tempting as it may appear sometimes. That, plus I don't think that killing everyone who disagrees with your views is a very ethical way to solve problems.
Still... sometimes, you just wish the world were that simple. The idea of being able to resolve moral conflicts through superior firepower is very stupid, very dangerous if taken too seriously, but also very, very cathartic.
Short story even shorter, my message wasn't mean to be taken seriously.
3/29/2010 11:00:24 AM
#1140195
Anemone
Saudi Arabia can go fuck itself.
3/29/2010 11:22:34 AM
#1140243
Godbuster
The problem with religious freedom is: Religions don't want free people.
3/29/2010 2:06:38 PM
#1140250
So... has Lebanon made any comment about this attack on their sovereignty? The article doesn't say.
3/29/2010 2:42:41 PM
#1140276
myheadhurts
Now if someone could actually do black magic, how would anyone be able to get the sorcerer to trial?
3/29/2010 4:02:00 PM
#1140282
Almafeta
*sigh* Saudi Arabia imposes its fundie will on yet another tourist on pilgrimage.
Sooner or later, they're going to try the same crap on an American muslim. Serious shit will go down that day...
3/29/2010 4:46:53 PM
#1140293
Shadoboy
Well, humanity just got a little more idiotic...
3/29/2010 5:36:30 PM
#1140301
breakerslion
Say the inmates running the asylum. In other news, demon-infested swine spotted trying to sneak through airport security....
3/29/2010 5:55:12 PM
#1140343
Felis >:3
And what sorcery was this, I wonder? Did it involve an ancient magick spellchart known as the "Periodic Table" to perform the magick of "chemistry"?
Seriously, what next? A fucking fatwa on the head of Bill Nye the Science Guy?
It's funny. Fundies of this calibre don't believe in chemical processes such as carbon dating, and don't believe in the science behind it.
But, the same science is used in fertiliser and the making of fertiliser bombs, so you'd expect them to believe that sort of bomb wouldn't work. Yet they KNOW they do.
My point is that these sort of people are blind to the truth, even when they can see it, even when they're using it for a purpose.
Know what I mean now?
Truly, truly brainwashed.
3/29/2010 9:10:07 PM
#1140376
Apparently, and since there have been no more than 100 executions annually for this "crime", It's not likely to work.
3/30/2010 12:17:12 AM
#1140377
The question is, if it's so bad for you, how on earth did you air it?. And those guys want to be on the top of technology use......................
3/30/2010 12:19:54 AM
#1140999
shockmeshockmeshockmewiththatdeviantbehavior
#1140017
Canadia
@#1139925
Religious people? reasonable? yeah, no.
Im religious... and Im EXTREMELY reasonable. And im sure there are others like me out there... just hard to find amongst all these poser psychotic freaks. LOL :P
3/30/2010 3:58:08 PM
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