Saudi's starts flogging man 1,000 times for insulting Islam on Facebook

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In May, Badawi, a father of three, was sentenced to five years in prison, and will receive 1,000 lashes to be administered in public over the next 20 weeks using a seven-foot bamboo cane the width of a man's little finger. His misdeed: admitting on Facebook that he is an atheist, a supporter of women's rights, and saying: "The combination of the sword and the Quran are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb."


The court also gave Badawi an additional five years in prison, fined him one million Saudi Arabian riyals (about US$266,370), and banned him from traveling abroad for ten years after release – all for the crime of setting up a website called Liberal Saudi Network, on which members of the site posted similar views.


"The news that Raif Badawi's flogging will start tomorrow is shocking," said Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa Director for Amnesty International, on Thursday.


"It is horrifying to think that such a vicious and cruel punishment should be imposed on someone who is guilty of nothing more than daring to create a public forum for discussion and peacefully exercising the right to freedom of expression."




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CFI Canada condemns the Saudi government for its barbaric and horrifying intention to torture Raif Badawi. Kevin Smith, CFI Canada’s Chair said, ” It is terrible and horrifying that one day after the murders of people at Charlie Hebdo, a person will begin a punishment of 1000 lashes for expressing his thoughts on a blog.”


CFIC urges Canadians to express their outrage and condemnation to the Government of Canada. Eric Adriaans, National Executive Director of CFI Canada said, “Freedom of speech is under threat by religious extremists. Faith-based terrorists are attacking and killing journalists and cartoonists while governments use cruel blasphemy laws to torture their citizens. It is time the Canadian government actively opposed blasphemy laws and the brutality and violence they precipitate. The Canadian government should start by calling for the immediate release of Raif Badawi and by abandoning Canada’s own blasphemy law, Criminal Code Section 296.”

Should you wish to express your concern to the Canadian government:


Contact info for John Baird, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs:http://johnbaird.com/constituents/contact-john/Find the contact information for your MP via postal code here


http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseofCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC




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I wonder what the message of those prayers were..........?






An activist who has a wife and three children in Sherbrooke, Que., underwent the first round of 50 lashes in public after morning prayers today in Saudi Arabia, human rights group Amnesty International says.


Amnesty International quoted a witness as saying the flogging took place before the public and security officials in front of the al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah.


"The whole ordeal lasted around 15 minutes. Afterwards, he was put back in the bus and taken away," the group said in a statement.


Badawi, who was first arrested in June 2012 for setting up the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, is sentenced to 50 lashings every Friday for the next 19 weeks.


Prosecutors had demanded he be tried for apostasy, which carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, but a judge dismissed that charge.


Elchacar said Amnesty International considers Badawi a "prisoner of conscience."


"He just wanted to open debate about the religious subjects, social subjects, political subjects, such topics which are not open to debate in traditional media in Saudi Arabia," Elchacar said.


Amnesty International is calling for Badawi's sentence to be quashed and for him to be released immediately and unconditionally so he can join his family in Canada.


On Thursday, the United States asked Riyadh to cancel the sentence of 1,000 lashes.


Badawi's website included articles critical of senior Saudi religious figures and others from Muslim history.


Saudi Arabia's legal code follows sharia Islamic law. Judges are trained as religious scholars and have broad scope to base verdicts and sentences on their own interpretation of religious texts.


Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned the killings of 12 people in an attack on a French satirical newspaper which had lampooned Islam. But it has also in the past called for an international law to criminalize insults to the world's main religions.




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We don't even have a thread about them sending tanks into Bahrain to 'help' dissuade public gatherings by the voters, I doubt they will be invaded anytime soon. You do realize that is what we want to turn Iran into right?? . . and then we demonize them when they 'have the nerve' to say 'Thanks, but no thanks.' Not totally unlike the thread about the 17 year old wanting to opt out of chemo, even at 18 there will be major objections. When adding up the 'profits don't forget to add in what the BAR gets.
 
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This is appalling and complete against Facebook's terms of service.
 
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