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#1139884
dingo
........Lebanon isn't gonna be too happy about that.
3/28/2010 6:15:16 PM
#1139888
Old Viking
Sounds a little harsh.
3/28/2010 6:20:05 PM
#1139892
K
Glad to see North America hasn't cornered the market on stupid.
3/28/2010 6:25:21 PM
#1139893
Tykittää
Sounds awfully like the fate that befell Stephen Fry in V For Vendetta
3/28/2010 6:25:50 PM
#1139901
LDM
Since when can a country arrest, try and condemn the citizen of another country for a "crime" not even committed in their country?
I'm anti-war, but I would sooo look the other way if anyone ever started bombing that country.
3/28/2010 6:50:07 PM
#1139903
"According to his lawyer, Sibat, who is 48 and has five children, would predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience."
The real question, as I see it, is: were his predictions accurate? If so, then he should be able to claim prophet status. If not, then he's a false prophet, and the Bible and the Koran are clear as to his punishment.
Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to submit all the "prophets" we have here in the US to the test...
3/28/2010 6:54:01 PM
#1139905
Arnold Facepalmer
If we are supposedly going after Islamic extremism why are we in Afghanistan instead of bombing the fuck out of the Saudis?
Don't bother- I know the answer.
3/28/2010 6:55:23 PM
#1139906
JohnTheAtheist
Thanks for the reminder that the problem is not christianity. The problem is faith.
3/28/2010 7:11:44 PM
#1139910
name
@1139903
Some Muslims believe the line of prophecy ended with Mohamed. Under their logic, he can't be a prophet.
3/28/2010 7:24:43 PM
#1139918
Sisyphus
Any bets the people who would condemn a father of 5 to death are the same people who would describe themselves as "pro-life"?
@Arnold Facepalmer: I thought the same thing!
3/28/2010 7:40:19 PM
#1139919
campbunny
They're only "moderate" when they're weak.
3/28/2010 7:48:44 PM
#1139920
aboveathletics
Fuck the Saudis and their pedophile prophet, there I said it. Seriously, Pat Robertson and his ilk are amusingly dumb and everything, but they would never go this far.
3/28/2010 7:48:47 PM
#1139922
If he'd been screwing nine year old girls like Mohommed did, and decreeing in his predictions for the furture that women should be oppressed even further, they'd be hailing him as a prophet and holding parades for him.
3/28/2010 7:59:13 PM
#1139923
Mister J
@aboveathletics
That's because they CAN'T right now. In spite of the massive lobbying done by the religious right to pervert progress made in cases such as gay marriage or abortion, Pat and his ilk do not have a majority in Congress to drive through the constitutional changes necessary to transform the US into the same backwards theocracy as Saudi Arabia, which pretty much had a head-start by being theocratic to begin with.
However, I am positive that if they ever got their way we'd be in a similar situation in the US too- you ever read "A Handmaid's Tale"? Scary stuff.
3/28/2010 8:01:08 PM
#1139924
Mrs. Antichrist
Saudi Arabia's laws are sickening.
3/28/2010 8:02:58 PM
#1139925
@John the Atheist: Never lose sight of the fact that the people we mock on this site are a small but vocal minority. Most people with religious beliefs are pretty reasonable.
But yes, this is an example of dogma being taken too far. The guy wasn't even a citizen of Saudi Arabia, so this should (hopefully) raise a nice shit storm that will (with luck) result in the guy getting released since Saudi Arabia is imposing its laws on another country's citizen over something that didn't actually occur in the country.
3/28/2010 8:17:48 PM
#1139927
Dr. Razark
@#1139925
"...Saudi Arabia is imposing its laws on another country's citizen over something that didn't actually occur in the country. "
Ah, but see, god's laws are more powerful than the laws of mere mortals. It worked for the Catholics in the Dark Ages.
3/28/2010 8:25:17 PM
#1139929
D Laurier.
And we support this country,
And use it as a base from which to devastate secular countrys.
Why?
3/28/2010 8:32:59 PM
#1139930
Tolpuddle Martyr
Yes, sorcery is serious stuff in Saudi Arabia, marrying pre pubescent girls to crooked, drooling, aged paedo - fossils?
Not so serious.
3/28/2010 8:33:21 PM
#1139931
Dr. Razark
@D Laurier.
"And we support this country,
And use it as a base from which to devastate secular countrys.
Why?"
Oil.
3/28/2010 8:35:06 PM
#1139932
moose
@ Dr Razark. Good observation. Yep. they think allah supercedes all else. Individual laws of other countries are a non issue. A current issue in one of the most modern muslim states...is the punishment of two people who kissed (evidently, on the cheek) in public who were not married. Xian fundies are ridiculous. Muslim fundies take the cake. They are worse. And yes, what we are writing about it is enough for all of us to be whipped (at least) for saying it if they bring you up for it.
3/28/2010 8:39:00 PM
#1139980
aaa
Saudi arabia is finding new ways to be more moronic every day.
3/28/2010 10:50:41 PM
#1140007
The Jamo
It's not sorcery... the proper term is "bullshit". And if you fall for it then you're the gullible idiot that should be hit with a cluebat, not the "sorcerer". Far out, this is like talking to a five-year-old.
3/28/2010 11:28:13 PM
#1140010
Quantum Mechanic
What?
Nice to know all the idiots aren't in the US.
3/28/2010 11:32:15 PM
#1140017
Canadia
@#1139925
Religious people? reasonable? yeah, no.
3/28/2010 11:42:05 PM
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