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The Salem Witch Trials Come To Riyadh

by @ 3:13 pm on February 14, 2008. Filed under Freedom of Religion, Individual Liberty, Islam, Religion

Apparently, there is no end to the depths of irrationality that our friends in Saudi Arabia will stoop to:

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.

Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.

This, quite frankly, is what happens when you don’t maintain a strict separation of church and state.

H/T: QandO

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  1. People will look back 100 years from now and say the same thing about something we’re currently doing.

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