Friday - April 02, 2010

The Wisdom And Mercy Of Islam

Condemned ‘sorcerer’ won’t die Friday, lawyer says

A Lebanese man condemned to death for sorcery by a court in Saudi Arabia won’t face beheading Friday, his lawyer said Thursday.

May El Khansa told CNN she received assurances from Lebanon’s justice minister that Ali Hussain Sibat will not be executed Friday. But there was no indication that Sibat’s death sentence would be commuted or that he would be released, she said.

Sibat was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police and charged with sorcery while visiting the country for an Islamic pilgrimage in May 2008, according to May El Khansa, his attorney in Lebanon. Saudi authorities have not disclosed details of the charge for which Sibat has been condemned and have not responded to requests for comment on the case.

So just who is this Ali Hussain Sibat, and how did he get busted for this evil, satanic crime?

Sibat is the former host of a popular call-in show that aired on Beirut-based satellite TV channel “Sheherazade.” According to his lawyer, Sibat would predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience.

El Khansa told CNN her client was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police (known as the Mutawa’een) and charged with sorcery while visiting the country in May 2008. Sibat was in Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic religious pilgrimage known as Umra.

Sibat was then put on trial, and in November 2009, a court in the Saudi city of Medina found him guilty and sentenced him to death. According to El Khansa, Sibat appealed the verdict. The case was taken up by the Court of Appeal in the Saudi city of Mecca on the grounds that the initial verdict was “premature.”

El Khansa tells CNN that the Mecca appeals court then sent the case back to the original court for reconsideration, stipulating that all charges made against Sibat needed to be verified and that he should be given a chance to repent. On March 10, judges in Medina upheld their initial verdict, meaning Sibat is once again sentenced to be executed.

But the important thing to note, dear brothers and sisters under Allah, is that the satanic crimes that Sibat committed WERE NOT DONE IN SAUDI ARABIA. No, Sibat was the Lebanese Miss Cleo, doing his routine on television. For entertainment. For fun. So he was famous for acting against the mandates of the Koran. So when he came to The Kingdom he was arrested. What defense could he have, when dozens of episodes of his show could be found on video and the internet, each one showing that he was in league with Shaitan? Off with his head! The Mutawa’een are only doing their job. Peas be upon them.

And now the Saudis have shown even more mercy, letting this witch live another week. What more could you ask for?

Belief in genies, or jinn, as they’re called in Arabic, is quite common in Saudi Arabia. But the strict form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia forbids people from worshiping anyone other than God.

The religious police headquarters in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, has an entire department devoted to combating sorcery and witchcraft and regularly distributes pamphlets and DVDs. In one DVD, which is set to religious music, police search people’s homes for signs that they practice witchcraft.

Saudi political analyst Tawfiq al-Saif says religious authorities truly believe they are helping society by discouraging faith in the supernatural.

So the Koran tells you spirits are real, but you had better not talk to them. Because conversing must be a form of worship - everyone knows that to call up demons and spirits you have to entreat them - and for worshiping any spirit other than Allah you must die. Wait a second, did I say any other spirit? There is no other spirit but God, and Allah is his name!!! I am so confused! How can there be no other spirit but Allah yet the Koran tells me jinns exist?? Ah, and now I’m writing about them!!! And questioning the accuracy of the holy book by pointing out a contradiction! Off with my head!

Looks like Ali Sibat is not exactly alone ... never a quiet day for the Royal Executioner in the kingdom ...

According to Saudi media, in addition to Sabat, Saudi religious police have arrested at least two others for witchcraft in the past month alone.

“Saudi courts are sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The crime of ‘witchcraft’ is being used against all sorts of behavior, with the cruel threat of state-sanctioned executions.”

And these are just the arrests of men. You wait until they start on those evil women. Witches, all of them! Some of them want to actually drive cars, or vote, or even show their faces in public, or make decisions on their own, or go out in public without a family chaperone! If those aren’t proof of witchcraft, what is? Off with their heads.

[Sharia ... religious police ... “justice” with a single foregone conclusion. Who would like to design the unit badge for the Mutawa’een, crossed choppers surmounting a portrait of the Red Queen? They need a proper motto too. How about “Hassan chop!"]

Posted by Drew458     on 04/02/2010 at 10:20 AM   
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