Saudi Arabia execution of 'sorcery' woman condemned (link to source)
Saudi authorities have been condemned by Amnesty International for executing a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.
Amnesty International confirmed that Saudi national Amina bin Salem Nasser was executed on Monday in the northern province of al-Jawf on charges of "witchcraft and sorcery"
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"The charges of 'witchcraft and sorcery' are not defined as crimes in Saudi Arabia", said Philip Luther, Amnesty's interim director of the Middle East and North Africa.
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"While we don't know the details of the acts which the authorities accused Amina of committing, the charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion," Luther said.
Saudi Arabia is fast moving from being a backwards desert backwater to being an enlightened font of progress. Witchcraft and sorcery contributed to the darkening of Europe during the Middle Ages and until Salem, Massachusetts' witch trials threatened to derail progress in the United States.
Saudi Arabia is now taking up the cudgels against witchcraft. This past week Saudi Arabia gave a fair and impartial trial to a women in her 60's and executed her on "charges of witchcraft and sorcery".
Where I differ from Amnesty International is that I assume that the trial was utterly fair and objective. I do not agree with Amnesty's Zionist and GOP propaganda. Western media had for a long time done its utmost to make Arab countries look bad. They are forces for progress in the world.