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Saudi Arabia to execute TV psychic

Calculon

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091124/twl-tv-presenter-on-death-row-for-witchc-3fd0ae9.html
Ali Sibat is not even a Saudi national. The Lebanese citizen was only visiting
Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage when he was arrested in Medina last year.

A court in the city condemned him as a witch on November 9.

The only evidence presented in court was reportedly the claim he appeared regularly on Lebanese satellite issuing general advice on life and making predictions about the future.
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Seems a tad excessive...
 
Making predictions on TV can get you killed? All the panelists on The McLaughlin Group had better stay out of Saudi Arabia. They're always making crackpot predictions.

Really, is there no limit to what excuse bloodthirsty lunatics will resort to for another scalp?
 
Wow, how can these guys expect to ever join the modern world?

Oh wait, some of them don't want to.
 
I think wanting to stay in the good ol' early middle ages is kinda the whole point of the Wahhabi sect.
 
psychics are called witches in the Bible and "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" is very Biblical. So whenever skeptics are exposing pychics they are doing God's work.
 
Okay, I'm all for denouncing crackpot psychics and voodoo doctors, but execution is a tad extreme.

More than a tad.

It's appalling. Especially that with all we know of how things work, that such a charge is even given consideration on the world stage. How ignorant and backward can a country get?

This does not reflect well on Saudi Arabia.

But shouldn't this be in politics or current events?
 
Honestly Saudi can't really sink any lower than it already is. Don't worry though, once the oil runs out they'll be wandering the desert on camels again. I wish that were a joke but they aren't building any kind of lasting economic structure or culture of industry.
 
Wouldn't a true psychic have "foreseen" the difficulty in going to the Stone Age.. oops, Saudi Arabia, and chosen some other less fatal vacation scene?
 
Eyeron said:
psychics are called witches in the Bible and "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" is very Biblical. So whenever skeptics are exposing pychics they are doing God's work.
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are they ?
then what are prophets ?
:D
 
Marduk said:
are they ?
then what are prophets ?
:D
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They aren't witches.

If a prophet is always accurate, without fail, he is of god, and sanctified.
If he is ever wrong, even once, he is a false prophet. I think the punishment is death by stoning, and not the herbal sort. :p
 
shouldn't the stock photo accompanying the article be a sword rather than a rope?
 
slingblade said:
They aren't witches.

If a prophet is always accurate, without fail, he is of god, and sanctified.
If he is ever wrong, even once, he is a false prophet. I think the punishment is death by stoning, and not the herbal sort. :p
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ah right so new biblical definition
Witches - stupid people who foretell the near future and get it wrong at least once in a society that kills for failing.
Prophets - not so stupid people who foretell the distant future and are long dead before anyone can check if its wrong or not in a society that kills for failing.

thanks
:D
 
slingblade said:
They aren't witches.

If a prophet is always accurate, without fail, he is of god, and sanctified.
If he is ever wrong, even once, he is a false prophet. I think the punishment is death by stoning, and not the herbal sort. :p
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So, they should have stoned Jonah? :p
 
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