[Hank Rearden]

750 lashes? Is that even survivable?

Stupid damn Moos. Islam must die.

[injin]

Let's start arresting anyone that preaches or teaches Islam
in America ....good idea !

[Just Lori]

Yep, America is a horrible place! We have freedom of religion and speech and assembly. Is it any wonder no one wants to live here?

[West Coast Conservative]

The Religion of Peace strikes again!

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, strictly upholds the austere Wahhabi school of Islam and bases its constitution on the Koran and the sayings of the prophet Muhammad. "

There's your problem.

The foundation for the country is built upon lies and self-serving pronouncements of a seventh century murderous lunatic.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

#%$^ing savages

[DoughtyOne]

I've got a good idea, let's up the number of Saudi Students who can enter our nation to about 10,000...

This was recently done.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- A court sentenced a teacher to 40 months in prison and 750 lashes for "mocking religion" after he discussed the Bible and praised Jews, a Saudi newspaper reported yesterday.

Barbaric. And funded in part by our petrodollars.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Religion of Peace as practiced by Saudi Government: a de facto violation of our Eighth Amendment.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Congress needs to pass a law prohibiting the foreign funding of religious institutions and schools in the United States by foreign governments and citizens thereof (e.g., Saudi Arabia) that do not in turn permit religious freedom in their own country.

The First Amendment prohibition on the free exercise of religion is intended for the benefit of Americans, not for the benefit of Saudis who do not recognize the principle of freedom of religion in their own country.

[Nextrush]

How about 750 lashes for the Saudis at Gitmo? Of course we
wouldn't do that. Where's the ACLU, the UN, Amnesty International, etc.? The ACLU is trying to ban anything that sounds like God in schools (Dover case), the UN has its
fingers where the sun doesn't shine and Amensty International, at least in our country is in on the anti-Wal-Mart campaign from what I've seen on the Wal-Mart Watch website.

[USF]

The unwanted results of TRUTH and FREEDOM in the KSA ping.

(Especially if you dont have any nice connections with the bandits of the House of Saud)

IMHO, it could be much worse. They could easily have trumped up the charges and sent him to chop chop square. Perhaps too many people already knew about the real circumstances.

[SlowBoat407]

Is he being punished so severely because he said these things as a muslim? (just looking at the name). Does this qualify him for some kind of martyrdom in Christian and Jewish eyes, even if he is not Christian or Jewish?

Oh, and why are we even dealing with these animals instead of opening up ANWR ten years ago and letting oil companies spend some of their profits on exploration and development?

[TBP]

The Saudi government is horrible, but it is better than any available alternative. There is no democracy movement. For now, bringing down the House of Saud will simply result in the same kind of disaster that happened when we helped bring down (pro-American) governments in China, Cuba, Iran, and Nicaragua, among others.