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Pickpocket at Mecca's Great Mosque has hand cut off
AFP ^ | September 9, 2006

Posted on 09/11/2006 10:18:17 AM PDT by NYer

A Nigerian man had his right hand severed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after he was convicted of stealing in the Great Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest shrine, the interior ministry said.

Kurba Thani Mohammad was found guilty of "committing the crime of pickpocketing inside the Great Mosque" at an unspecified date, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Mohammad was sentenced to the amputation of his hand, and the punishment was carried out in Mecca, it said.

Saudi Arabia applies a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law, that provides for severing the hand for theft. The death penalty is meted out for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.


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KEYWORDS: islam; leroyafraid; mecca; muslim; pickpocket; saudiarabia; sharia
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To: wagglebee

If Sharia does not represent true Islam, then why do more muslims not speak out about Mecca, the city so sacred that all muslims are expected to make pilgrimage there?

Mecca is the sacred city of a supremacist cult. There is no tolerance for persons of other faiths. There is no freedom to accept or reject Islam.

If Mecca depicts Islam at its core, it is not a pretty sight.


41 posted on 09/11/2006 11:11:34 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

They cut off the feet of any infidel caught treading the 'holy ground' of Mecca. At least that's what they told us during our indoc to Operation Southern Watch, based in Riyadh at the time.


42 posted on 09/11/2006 11:11:46 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: NYer

Hey dummy, Bet that really hurt.


43 posted on 09/11/2006 11:12:24 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: wagglebee

Watch out for the muslim apologists here on FR. They are almost back home to disseminate more manure about islam from the after-lunch prayers!


44 posted on 09/11/2006 11:13:01 AM PDT by 308MBR (Milkin' and a churnin', pickin' cotton, raising "heck" and balin' hay!)
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To: wagglebee

They have oil, and GWB likes going through the Rose Garden holding hands with Princes of the House of Saud, who fund 80% of the mosques in the USA with oil money.

I guess that's what it is. I'm not sure.


45 posted on 09/11/2006 11:14:52 AM PDT by 308MBR (Milkin' and a churnin', pickin' cotton, raising "heck" and balin' hay!)
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To: Larry Lucido

lol


46 posted on 09/11/2006 11:20:15 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Amnesty_From_Government.htm)
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To: NYer
A Nigerian man had his right hand severed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday

...but not before he spammed my inbox to death!

47 posted on 09/11/2006 11:25:47 AM PDT by jdm (I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
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To: wagglebee

You make some excellent points! it's almost like they believe that what they are doing here on earth, praying 10x a day, not enjoying anything in life they think is western sin, making thier women cover themselves with Black Drapes so they are not sexually tempted is going to reward them with Allah's Blessing a Las Vegas lifestyle on the other side, Showgirls plentiful, pockets of gold the best booze and basically a swinging time....

Talk about thinking A** backwards


48 posted on 09/11/2006 11:26:06 AM PDT by Judy Jetsun (Activan-Apply Directly to the Forehead x12)
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To: NYer

ROFL!!! How do you type this email with no hands?

The only thing I can think of is another smaller appendage.


49 posted on 09/11/2006 11:42:16 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: NYer

Welcome to the 14th Century. The time is here...this world is to small for the both of us...they see it that way...when will we wake up?...I'm worried we may not.


50 posted on 09/11/2006 11:48:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NYer

Gee, he is lucky he didn't convert to Christianity or have a Bible or he would have been executed.


51 posted on 09/11/2006 11:53:26 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: isthisnickcool

I think the victim is put to death in rape cases in that culture.


52 posted on 09/11/2006 11:57:52 AM PDT by PreviouslyA-Lurker (...where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18)
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To: NYer

What's the punishment for vehicular homicide and treason?


54 posted on 09/11/2006 12:12:57 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: TonyRo76

See what I wrote in #39.


55 posted on 09/11/2006 12:17:40 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: NYer
The death penalty is meted out for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.


apostasy

n 1: the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) [syn: renunciation, defection] 2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: tergiversation]



56 posted on 09/11/2006 12:18:24 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (Karen Ryan reporting...)
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To: NYer

If you are a woman the death penalty applies for adultery, for a male the penalty is flogging, if any is meted out.


58 posted on 09/11/2006 12:24:35 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: TonyRo76

Abraham walked, Moses walked, Jesus walked (until he was loaned a donkey to fulfill scripture).

What did Muhammed do? He murdered a lemon merchant and stole his donkey.


59 posted on 09/11/2006 12:27:03 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel.

also Keywords 2006israelwar or WOT [War on Terror]

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60 posted on 09/11/2006 12:53:01 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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