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[Ludovico]

How do folks feel about this one?  I put it here instead of under rights.


'Sorcerer' faces imminent death in Saudi Arabia

By Sebastian Usher
BBC News, London

The lawyer for a Lebanese man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft has appealed for international help to save him.

Ali Sabat was the host of a popular Lebanese TV show in which he predicted the future and gave advice.

He was arrested by religious police on sorcery charges while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2008.

His lawyer, May el-Khansa, says she has been told Mr Sabat is due to be executed this week.

Ms Khansa has contacted the Lebanese president and prime minister to appeal on his behalf.

There has been no official confirmation from Saudi Arabia, but executions there are often carried out with little warning.

Mr Sabat did make a confession, but Ms Khansa says he only did so because he had been told he could go back to Lebanon if he did.

Human rights groups have accused the Saudis of "sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police".

An Egyptian working as a pharmacist in Saudi Arabia was executed in 2007 after having been found guilty of using sorcery to try to separate a married couple.

There is no legal definition of witchcraft in Saudi Arabia, but horoscopes and fortune telling are condemned as un-Islamic.

Nevertheless, there is still a big thirst for such services in the country where widespread superstition survives under the surface of strict religious orthodoxy.

[KK]

Hard to believe such a thing can happen in our modern world.
But Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative countries. And as long as they have oil, they can get away with anything. Fortunately, their time is running out.

[MariusVI]

The man may be a self-snuff fethishist gone one step too far -

As being able to predict the future he must have foreseen his doom awaiting him in Saudi Arabia, one would be inclined to conclude, yet instead of staying in bed he ran to embrace it - amor fati. Or, more relevant to this forum's subjects, sheer horniness. Or - but that's the least interesting option - he couldn't predict the future after all... resulting, nonetheless, in quite a predicament. I can't believe life would be that prosaic, though, so let's go for the kink - cause amor fati would be too poetic.

People, stick to fantasy!

[Ludovico]

When they run out of oil, will anyone even care what they do. Let's not forget about the  princess they executed a few years ago, ironically for falling in love with a Lebanese diplomat.

I haven't read anything current on this.

[MariusVI]

Executing a princess is really bad stuff...

Where was Mario?

[t'Sade]

Executing a princess is really bad stuff...

Where was Mario?

Knowing this group, probably recording it.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVU-YLpM8A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVU-YLpM8A</a>

[KK]

Awesome !