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Australian sentenced to 500 lashes in Saudi Arabia
Associated Press ^ | Dec. 7, 2011

Posted on 12/06/2011 10:16:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man has been sentenced to 500 lashes and a year in a Saudi Arabian jail after being convicted of blasphemy, officials said Wednesday.

The 45-year-old man, identified by family members as Mansor Almaribe of southern Victoria state, was detained in the holy city of Medina last month while making the Muslim pilgrimage of hajj. Family members told Australian media that Saudi officials accused him of insulting the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, a violation of Saudi Arabia's strict blasphemy laws.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; islam; islamofascists; muslims; saudiarabia; shariah
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To: Krankor

No... he would be slapped and let go. After all, he did not use a gun, bat, knife, or other aggressive device. Only if he was protecting himself would he be in trouble.


21 posted on 12/06/2011 11:06:28 PM PST by Deagle
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Love lashes, I’m sure. He won’t make it past 30.


22 posted on 12/06/2011 11:07:41 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Deagle
Isn’t 500 lashes essentially a death sentence?

Yes. He'll die long before that can be completed.

These people are evil and not human.

23 posted on 12/06/2011 11:08:53 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Allegra

Yep.. prehistoric humans!


24 posted on 12/06/2011 11:11:30 PM PST by Deagle
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Mansor Almaribe ???


25 posted on 12/06/2011 11:12:21 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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26 posted on 12/06/2011 11:16:57 PM PST by bushpilot1
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These fools mock Christ.


27 posted on 12/06/2011 11:25:02 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So will Obama demand that this sentence is not carried out? Will he deride the SAs for this? Even though it could help him in the election I doubt he’ll risk offending his beloved zip wad Mohammedans.


28 posted on 12/06/2011 11:27:44 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Australian reaction will be interesting. Probably they will wrangle a pardon for him after a lot of grovelling.


29 posted on 12/06/2011 11:51:59 PM PST by expat1000
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To: bushpilot1

Did you know...the monkeys have no tail there?


30 posted on 12/07/2011 12:13:39 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It doesn’t say what he said but it couldn’t possibly have been “blasphemous” enough.

After all, what’s *not* to insult?


31 posted on 12/07/2011 12:16:02 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He won’t die,they will schedule the lashings to a set interval once every 2 weeks or some such.Probably if Australia pursued them the same way,they did over that Persian actress stuck in Iran,they’d probably settle for quite a lot less.

Since this is however a Western ally,they are unlikely to intervene and honestly if you want to change this and he is an Australian citizen......e-mail the Australian government.

Otherwise there are ways to resolve this.


32 posted on 12/07/2011 12:18:16 AM PST by Del Rapier
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And another thing, why does the AP call Medina “the holy city of”?


33 posted on 12/07/2011 12:18:46 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: Tainan

I need to walk away from this thread..seems this is a Muslim thing. I first assumed they guy being lashed was a Christian.


34 posted on 12/07/2011 12:23:07 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Someday someone rational will nuke Mecca and Medina.


35 posted on 12/07/2011 12:36:22 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: garjog

Wonder what this Australian Bloke, thinks of his religion of peace now. My guess, is that if it were someone else getting the same sentence for the same crime, he would have been all for it.


36 posted on 12/07/2011 12:49:20 AM PST by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: pennyfarmer

Not only a piss poor prophet, but a war monger and child abuser to boot. And ignorant people fall for this crap hook line and sinker time after time. May be some day they wake up.


37 posted on 12/07/2011 1:03:55 AM PST by saintgermaine
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

No one will survive 500 lashes unless they use a wet noodle...death for me would be prefered...


38 posted on 12/07/2011 1:10:36 AM PST by goat granny (.)
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To: bushpilot1

I hear ya...that song just come to mind everytime I hear “Zamboanga”


39 posted on 12/07/2011 1:30:59 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Deagle

Yes. Essentially he will be beaten to death. He will die of the trauma and blood loss or a combination of it. Even if he survived, I am sure he would be confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life. How anyone could stand 10 of those, let alone 500, is beyond me. Animals.


40 posted on 12/07/2011 1:33:37 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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