SAUDI ARABIA: Kingdom steps up hunt for 'witches' and 'black magicians'

[struggle4progress]

When the popular 46-year-old Lebanese psychic Ali Sibat went on-air and made his predictions about the future, the phone lines of the satellite television station Sheherazade used to be flooded with calls ...

On Nov. 9, Sibat was given a death sentence by a Mecca court for allegedly practicing witchcraft ...

Scores of alleged witch doctors, fortunetellers, and black magicians each year are dragged through the Saudi courts, including Fawza Falih, who’s been on death row since 2006 for witchcraft ...

This year, Saudi Arabia started implementing what it called a "comprehensive judicial reform," but it has yet to write down its criminal laws ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/11/saudi-arabia-kingdom-steps-up-hunt-for-witches-and-black-magicians-.html

[POAS]

1. One more thing Sarah has in common with Islamic

fundamentalists.

[santamargarita]

4. It's witches not bitches

I guess I should add this :sarcasm:

[Bluenorthwest]

2. I've been reading many posts that claim such abuses

are unacceptable and that is why we MUST escalate in Afghanistan. Ironic as hell. Cut a check to the kingdom, drop a drone on Afghanistan, hoping to capture a Saudi.

[IndianaGreen]

3. The supreme irony is that Saudi Arabia financed the Taliban for many years

and often at the behest of the CIA.