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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 05:37 PM
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As Teen Girl Awaits Death, Saudi Surge in Beheadings Could Set Record High
From Fox of all people.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year old housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded.

The Sri Lankan government says it is working for a reprieve, and has until Monday to file the plea. A last-minute pardon by the infant's parents could also spare her. But if her execution goes ahead, it will be the latest in a surge of beheadings that could surpass the kingdom's record of 191 in 2005.

After dropping to 38 last year, the figure for 2007 is already at least 102, including three women, according to Amnesty International.

Beheading has always been the punishment meted out to murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and armed robbers in Saudi Arabia. Whether what Nafeek did amounts to murder has never been spelled out by courts or other officials, but Saudi authorities, facing sustained criticism from foreign human rights groups, insist they are simply enforcing God's law.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289317,00.html
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 05:40 PM
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1. Right. And this government is our "friend" and we wonder if or when the US tortures people?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 05:40 PM
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2. Good thing we went after the real evil country, Iraq
:eyes:

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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 05:40 PM
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3. What Texas wants to be.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 05:42 PM
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4. Our best buds
Yay, us.

Too bad for Saddam he wasn't a "moderate", like these guys.
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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-15-07 05:48 PM
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5. And you get the RW/Freepers/dittoheads
who cheer this sh**!:crazy: They want to import this into this country(Not the Islam of course, but the Islamic Law, or the punishment parts of it)
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