Friday, February 22, 2008

“Modern Day” Witch Hunt Saudi Style

NewsBusters is a conservative news and comedy website. Their newest NewBusted episode includes the excerpt below. See right panel of this blog and click on the video to watch this 2-3 minute comedy YouTube.com video.
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“Saudi Arabia has convicted a woman of being a witch and is going to execute her. Human rights activist leaders have denounced it, calling it a “witch hunt." To which the Saudi have replied, “Duh!”

“At least this moves Islam from the 12th century to the 17th century!”


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NewsBusted, Episode 142

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Placatory President with Kingly Persecuter


President Bush apparently holds (literally) the Saudi "royalty" in high regard. Saudi Arabia has perpetually been a chief human rights abuser without equal.

The BBC reports that “In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

“The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read . . .”

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