Posted on 04/01/2010 9:17:48 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic who was convicted in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft said her client could be beheaded this week and urged Lebanese and Saudi leaders to help spare his life.
Ali Sibat made predictions on an Arab satellite TV channel from his home in Beirut.
He was arrested by the Saudi religious police during his pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina in May 2008 and sentenced to death last November.
Lawyer May al-Khansa said she learned from an unofficial source that Mr Sibat, 49, is to be beheaded on Friday.
She added that she does not have any official confirmation of this.
"Ali is not a criminal. He did not commit a crime or do anything disgraceful," Mrs al-Khansa said.
"The world should help in rescuing a man who has five children, a wife and a seriously ill mother."
She added that Sibat's mother's health has been deteriorating since her son was sentenced to death.
The Saudi justice system, which is based on Islamic law, does not clearly define the charge of witchcraft.
Sibat is one of scores of people reported arrested every year in the kingdom for practicing sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortunetelling.
These practices are considered polytheism by the government in Saudi Arabia, a deeply religious Muslim country.
Al-Khansa said she has called upon Saudi King Abdullah to pardon Sibat.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said last year that Sibat's death sentence should be overturned.
It also called on Saudi government to halt "its increasing use of charges of 'witchcraft,' crimes that are vaguely defined and arbitrarily used."
Last year, the rights group presented a series of cases in the kingdom, including that of Saudi woman Fawza Falih, who was sentenced to death by beheading in 2006 for the alleged crimes of "witchcraft,
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Islam IS witchcraft. The Mecca is where the monolyth of satan is worshiped.
This is internal disciplining, folkes, for letting the cat out of the bag too early. Mohammed was extremely harsh against moles and those denouncing it through expressing its true murderness.
The burka is the old same thing too, meant to hide the truly whorish behavior of islam. Liberals will use them to destroy Christians.
Friggen 10th Century savages.
Islam is pure evil, a curse on human history.
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well, the bible is pretty clear that witchcraft, sorcery, physics (yes) and those types of things are against God’s wishes, I suppose this is one heck of a round about way to bring about punishment. Maybe we’ll get lucky and a freak earthquake will form under them during the festivities.
I guess the “psychic” couldn’t see this coming.
It probably already is Friday for Ali ...
I guess he wasn't looking...Ahead.
Mid-morning...
“Islam IS witchcraft”
perhaps they can be convinced to all behead themselves ?
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