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Title: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: josephpalazzo on November 21, 2015, 09:22:11 AM
If you have any doubts where evil lurks...


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A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.
A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah (http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2013/mostly_visible) and at the Venice Biennale (http://edgeofarabia.com/exhibitions/rhizoma-generation-in-waiting). The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.

Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia (http://edgeofarabia.com/), was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.

“I was really shocked but it was expected, though I didn’t do anything that deserves death,” Fayadh told the Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=*Morning%20Brief
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: SGOS on November 21, 2015, 09:25:24 AM
This can't be.  Muslims aren't like that.
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: Baruch on November 21, 2015, 10:04:45 AM
So why haven't we nuked Riyadh?  Why hasn't Russia nuked Washington DC ... after any of the unjust court cases against minorities that pop up frequently?  What is worse than a SJW .. is a nuke obsessed SJW.

So I am the judge of the world, I will review every trial and sentence ... and if any defendant is mistreated, I will nuke the country where that occurs .... what could be more American than that?  Americans aren't death worshippers, are we?
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: josephpalazzo on November 21, 2015, 10:11:10 AM
Quote from: SGOS on November 21, 2015, 09:25:24 AM
This can't be.  Muslims aren't like that.

No, generally speaking they aren't, but unfortunately the ones running Saudi Arabia are. And they have billions of petro-dollars to spend, particularly on mosques being built across the planet - a fertile ground to spread their hateful doctrine.
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: Baruch on November 21, 2015, 01:33:49 PM
Then join General Rush Limbaugh and parachute into Riyadh to liberate all that oil ;-)
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: aitm on November 21, 2015, 04:09:36 PM
It is but a matter of degrees. Coming soon to america… opposition to free speech:

http://atheistforums.com/index.php?topic=8891.0
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: Baruch on November 21, 2015, 11:02:36 PM
Quote from: aitm on November 21, 2015, 04:09:36 PM
It is but a matter of degrees. Coming soon to america… opposition to free speech:

http://atheistforums.com/index.php?topic=8891.0

There will always be free speech ... for plutocrats and their political lap dogs ;-)  Good doggy!  There has always been opposition to free speech ... just ask Presidents Adams and Wilson.
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: josephpalazzo on November 22, 2015, 12:07:39 PM
Quote from: aitm on November 21, 2015, 04:09:36 PM
It is but a matter of degrees. Coming soon to america… opposition to free speech:

http://atheistforums.com/index.php?topic=8891.0

We are talking about scales of humongous difference: Saudis executing you because you say "you're an atheist"; and the student asking the university's authority to censor you from saying that "you're an atheist" because it might offend the poor whiny christian student's sensitivity scale. I reckon that the latter is a slippery slope that might lead to the former, but we are years apart from that taking place, assuming that the students win their point, which personally I don't think they will.
Title: Re: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Post by: Baruch on November 22, 2015, 08:29:48 PM
The problem for student demonstrators is that they have a "sell by" date.  Once they become adults, they forget all this bullshit.  Of course a few rounds from the National Guard could accelerate their maturity.