Saudi woman arrested for witchcraft by "religious police" sentenced to death

When deceit and dishonesty don't work for homebiz his next line of defence is to just write off the evidence as inaccurate, Of course without offering any reason why or any source to support his new found illogical conclusion. Which is the intellectual equivalent of saying "look over there!" then running away.

 

Let me ask you guys this. If the article is accurate why is there no other source other than that writers veiw and other article with quotes from that source? An al jazeera search yielded nothing http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Search/Default.aspx Pull up more facts on the case. Was she slaughtering animals or making sacrifices which is against the law? Was she hanging demonic items on trees and walls in and around her house which is also against the law?

 

Your other thread suggests that witch trials are the norm in the middle east, why would ME news outlets be interested in yet another witch?

Well we don't know, however there is no evidence to suggest she was. We do however have evidence that she was forced to fingerprint a confession & she did not have a fair trial (if there is such a thing for witch trials)

She may have been suffering from voices in her head? maybe kinda like a satanic verses moment?

 

I don't know. why? Let me guess, because the BBC fabricated the whole thing?

why would it? Like toopac said, A primitive witch hunt is fairly common in that part of the world and executions are a daily event, so it's unlikely to be considered news worthy by local news outlets is it.

Not that i know of. Got any evidence that she was?

Not that i know of. Got any evidence that she was?

Of course, even if she was, Killing her for it would still be a display of spectacular barbarism and something that any normal, civilised person should be completely against.

 

Writing for the BBC.

No, Witchcraft doesn't exist. The belief in witchcraft is what is common.

That isn't how it works.

Just because more than one instance of injustice exists doesn't mean we shouldn't oppose them on an individual basis.

Tell me homebiz, Do you want her beheaded because she is brown or because shes a woman? After All, You have openly admitted to disbelieving that she could even be capable of committing the crime she was convicted of, So what is the reason for you frantically looking for some reason, any reason, to support her beheading?

 

A freelancer is a freelancer.

You say it doesn't exist but then say it is common place.

What, find more evidence.

Did I say I wanted her beheaded. Why would her color or sex matter?

, I said "I don't think a person could cause impotence through practicing witchcraft." I said that, in the thinking of casting a spell or hex by muttering words.

If she was practicing witchcraft then she broke the law. The laws throughout the Middle East are vastly different than those in the west.

 

Homebiz if you think the story, written by a freelancer or not, Is fabricated i suggest you have the courage to say so, provide the evidence and then defend your position.

I said the belief in witchcraft is common, But actual witchcraft doesn't exist. Do you not understand the difference between saying a lot of people believe something and saying that their belief is correct? of course you don't, You are a "christian".

She was accused, and found guilty, of causing impotence through magic. Something which you still think she couldn't possibly be capable of.

 

The court in Quraiyat, on April 2, 2006 (3/3/1427), sentenced her to death by beheading for the alleged crimes of ““witchcraft, recourse to jinn , and slaughter” of animals.

Court Verdict number 125/2 of October 10, 2006 (17/9/1427) states that Fawza Falih confessed that “I take 1,500 Riyal for each act of which I send half to the magician Abu Tal’a [who allegedly taught her “witchcraft”] according to the agreement, for Abu Tal’a said to me, ‘If you do not bring the money, by God, you will become possessed by jinn like dogs.” source

 

Makes you wonder how many mentally ill people get beheaded for claiming to have magical powers.

 

I bet that is what the religous police were saying