[Public execution in Saudi Arabia. Al-Beshi executes women ]
oped: Yes indeed if Obama has his way Sharia Law coming to the USA...wake up people stop apologizing for Obama's enabling of Islam the Muslim Brotherhood et al! And by the way where are all the liberal bleeding hearts on this issue...after all they claim corporal punishment by lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment!
RIYADH (Reuters) - An Islamic
court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his
Muslim faith, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on
Tuesday.
The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of Islam's
holy book, the Koran, and hitting it with a shoe, the newspaper
reported.
Saudi Arabia, the
United States' top Arab ally and birthplace of Islam, follows the strict
Wahhabi Sunni Muslim school and gives the clergy control over its
justice system.
Under the Wahhabi interpretation of Sharia Islamic law, apostasy
demands the death penalty, as do some other religious offences like
sorcery, while blasphemy and criticism of senior Muslim clerics have
incurred jail terms and corporal punishment.
Executions in Saudi Arabia are usually carried out by public beheading.
International rights groups say the Saudi justice system
suffers from a lack of transparency and due process, that defendants are
often denied basic rights such as legal representation and that
sentencing can be arbitrary.
The Saudi government has taken some steps to reform its judicial system but has also defended it as fair.
Last year a court
in Jeddah sentenced Saudi liberal Raif Badawi to 1,000 lashes and 10
years in prison for publishing criticism of the kingdom's ruling
religious and political elite and calling for reforms in Islam.
The first of 50 of those lashes were carried out in
January, but subsequent rounds of flogging have not occurred. Officials
have not publicly commented on the case, but insiders say the lashing
appears to have been quietly dropped.
(Reporting By Angus McDowall; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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