Monday - December 12, 2011

Chop Chop

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.

The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement the execution took place Monday, but gave no details on the woman’s crime.

The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.

The paper said a female investigator followed up, and the woman was arrested in April, 2009, and later convicted in a Saudi court.

It did not give the woman’s name, but said she was in her 60s.

The execution brings the total to 76 this year in Saudi Arabia, according to an Associated Press count. At least three have been women.

For all you America haters out there, especially you euro-peons always going on about our guns and our death penalty, Saudi Arabia has executed more than double the number of criminals this year than we have. Actually, it’s closer to 2.5 times as many ... and the USA has more than 11 times the population. Stick that in your hookah and smoke it.

Also, I’m pretty sure we haven’t executed a woman for witchcraft in more than 370 years. So there.

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