10 Years in Jail and 1,000 Lashes for “Insulting Islam”

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Last year, 30-year-old Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was punished for starting a progressive website that called for, among other things, religious tolerance and women’s rights. That was insulting to Islam, said his critics. He was sentenced at the time to seven years in prison and 600 lashes.


His sentence was overturned. In May, Badawi was given an even harsher punishment:
… the Criminal Court has sentenced Badawi to ten years in prison, 1,000 lashes, and a one million riyal fine (USD $266,631).




His lawyers appealed the ruling, but we learned this week that the decision was upheld.




Michael De Dora of the Center For Inquiry explains what will happen now:
This means Badawi’s sentence is final, and that Saudi officials could begin to impose lashes on Badawi within several weeks. According to the final decision, Badawi will receive 50 lashes per session, with a break of no less than a week between sessions. The lashings will be carried out in public after Friday prayers in front of al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah.
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Amnesty International offers contact information for Saudi leaders you can write to in order to voice your dissent. It’ll likely fall on deaf ears — I mean, how serious can you take a “Human Rights Commission” in a country that punishes atheists for expressing their opinions? — but there doesn’t seem to be any other way to help Badawi right now.


Still, we can share his story. If this doesn’t get you worked up about the discrimination faced by atheists and religious minorities in theocracies like Saudi Arabia, nothing will.




Saudi Court Upholds Ruling Against Atheist Blogger. He Faces 10 Years in Jail and 1,000 Lashes for “Insulting Islam”
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Praxius

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As something we tell people coming to our countries: Live by our rules and our laws or GTFO.


I'm not religious by any stretch, but wtf did anybody expect would happen?


There are many other ways to get his message across without ending up where he is now in life. Some would say those other options would be next to useless...... And yet, his solution was just as useless in the long run and now by the time he ever gets through all of this, his back will look like Freddy Krueger's foreskin.
 
petros

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In a country no too far away you can do jail time for handing out pamphlets and even more time if you convert one and the converted does time too.
 
Colpy

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petros said:
In a country no too far away you can do jail time for handing out pamphlets and even more time if you convert one and the converted does time too.
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You can do jail time in CANADA for handing out pamphlets.............outrageous as that is.

Our Charter is a joke, our Supreme Court staffed by idiots.
 
petros

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Happy Christian pamphlets or hate speech pamphlets? Do both parties do time for accepting and following through on being a happy Christian in Canada? Or do we have Religious freedom thanks to the Charter you dislike so much?
 
damngrumpy

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Ah yes and we invite such people to come and live among us with their high standards
for promoting democracy,. We all know the Saudi Fascist movement is strong and its
supported by America of all places the bastion of freedom. Of course oil trumps the
democratic movement every time.
 
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