The medieval mentality inherent to the judicial system of our “ally” Saudi Arabia is, once again, rearing it’s ugly, theocratic head:
World | Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:17am EST
Saudi court sentences Palestinian poet to death for apostasy: HRW
RIYADH
A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said on Friday.
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Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law and its judges are clerics from the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam. In the Wahhabi interpretation of Sharia, religious crimes including blasphemy and apostasy incur the death penalty.
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Why are we selling these guys weapons again? Why are we even allowing their opinion to influence our actions at all?!
If we needed anymore proof that we need to press ahead strongly with vehicle electrification and public transportation, this is it. If we don’t, each purchase of oil from Saudi Arabia that we make is supporting the execution, lashings, and harsh prison sentencing of people for merely believing what they want to believe.