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		Saudi Arabia still accuses women of practicing witchcraft. Hey, maybe we could have Christine O'Donnell be our ambassador to Saudi Arabia (foreignpolicy.com)		66
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Braindeath

2011-12-15 12:11:32 PM

I fully support this idea. I think it would go over really well. Uh, she has to move there full time.

/Not allowed back for visits

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian

2011-12-15 12:11:56 PM

If O'Donnell was beheaded she might actually get smarter.....so sure, let's give it a try.

Sgt.Zim

2011-12-15 12:11:57 PM

Or Rosie O'Donnell

realmojo

2011-12-15 12:16:16 PM

"That's right, I'm a witch!"

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AverageAmericanGuy

2011-12-15 12:17:43 PM

It's such an ancient pitch, but one that I'd never switch. Because there's no nicer witch than you.

scottydoesntknow

2011-12-15 12:18:43 PM

What a backward-ass country.

*XKCD Injection* What a backward ass-country.

Huh, still fits

miss diminutive

2011-12-15 12:22:39 PM

scottydoesntknow: What a backward-ass country.

*XKCD Injection* What a backward ass-country.

Huh, still fits

I like you.

DisposableSavior

2011-12-15 12:25:42 PM

Did anyone else read this headline in Norm Macdonald's voice?

lenfromak

2011-12-15 12:26:19 PM

Is Christine O'Donnell heavier than a duck?

wildstarr

2011-12-15 12:28:03 PM

Would this backward ass-country exist if the was no oil.

/I think not.

Romeo_Santana

2011-12-15 12:28:13 PM

Accuse a woman of witchcraft here in America and a lot of them would take it as a compliment.

joeflood

2011-12-15 12:28:31 PM

And just think, the Religious Right wants this sort of thing in the USA!

inelegy

2011-12-15 12:28:35 PM

WHAT?? No way!

That certainly doesn't sound like the Saudi Arabia I know.

Crocoduck

2011-12-15 12:31:47 PM

You've got to have rocks in your head to try and pull off that sort of scam in The Kingdom. Religious farktards vs. medical scammers....there are no winners here.

Roto-Rot

2011-12-15 12:32:31 PM

Convicted witch my life will end at midnight on the stake

clarkcox3

2011-12-15 12:32:39 PM

But, we can't judge, right?
All cultures are equal, blah, blah, blah.

monoski

2011-12-15 12:34:53 PM

wildstarr: Would this backward ass-country exist if the was no oil.

/I think not.

But they did just agree to pump more oil to bring the price down so I am sure the oil consuming countries will turn their heads and ignore it if a few women get burned at the stake for witchcraft.

TV's Vinnie

2011-12-15 12:41:50 PM

This is a tactic that Sado Arabia (That's what I call that sh*thole) does whenever they find some uppity female that wants reforms.

Even they tend to shy away from charging a person with protesting because of the obvious international outcry it would attract, so they just call it witchcraft (cuz only someone in league with the Devil would not want to wear a black bag over them during Summer in the desert or to have their vay-jays sliced off, right?) and it resonates with the Arabian version of Alabama rednecks there.

david_gaithersburg

2011-12-15 12:46:16 PM

Well our State Department is already being properly represented there!

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Mr. Cat Poop

2011-12-15 12:51:47 PM

joeflood: And just think, the Religious Right wants this sort of thing in the USA!

You are going to be accused of being a troll, but I know people that don't let their kids watch Harry Potter because they actually believe that witchcraft and magic spells are real and "of the devil".

EMCGuy

2011-12-15 12:57:03 PM

Ahh, Saudi Arabia. 21st century technology, 10th century beliefs.

Latinwolf

2011-12-15 12:57:24 PM

Bacon is Meat Candy: But she's not a witch. I think maybe she used to be though.

She turned me into a newt, she's a witch.

Latinwolf

2011-12-15 12:58:42 PM

wildstarr: Would this backward ass-country exist if the was no oil.

/I think not.

they've gotten away with a lot of crap because of oil. They were more involved with 9/11 than Iraq ever was.

StoPPeRmobile

2011-12-15 01:01:23 PM

FTFA: "sentenced to death for "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings],"

WTF? I thought that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), was prophet to both the Djinn and Humans.

Silly me, expecting people to read their wholey books.

scottydoesntknow

2011-12-15 01:02:17 PM

Mr. Cat Poop: joeflood: And just think, the Religious Right wants this sort of thing in the USA!

You are going to be accused of being a troll, but I know people that don't let their kids watch Harry Potter because they actually believe that witchcraft and magic spells are real and "of the devil".

CSB: My next-door neighbor had the strangest family. 5 kids, all home-schooled and devoutly religious. Well the pokemon fad just hit and EVERYONE was collecting those pokemon cards (I stuck with MagicTG, you know the more sophistocated game). My neighbor (aged 12, 2 years younger than me) starts spending all of his allowance on the cards. He was picking them up left and right and actually had some valuable ones from what I can remember. Well one day his sister gets really pissed at him for some stupid reason and she decides to hop on the internet. 2 searches later she prints out a sheet from some crazy religious website that proved pokemon cards "were from the devil to pull children away from God and worship false idols" and handed it to the mom. That afternoon he comes over to my house crying with his full set of cards and says his mom is making him give them away and hands them all to me. I asked him what he wanted me to do since I wouldn't use them and he said he didn't care.

One trip with my dad to the local card shop later and I had close to $300 cash (well actually around $250 because I was building a Sliver deck and they had a Sliver Queen & assorted others I had to get).

StoPPeRmobile

2011-12-15 01:02:40 PM

Oh, and let's build a bridge out of her. Seem like fair cops.

Banned on the Run

2011-12-15 01:08:11 PM

Muslims:

Do you need any more evidence that your relgion, ergo society, is stuck in 1488?

Banned on the Run

2011-12-15 01:09:05 PM

*religion even

whosits_112

2011-12-15 01:15:01 PM

miss diminutive: scottydoesntknow: What a backward-ass country.

*XKCD Injection* What a backward ass-country.

Huh, still fits

I like you.

Hey! I can be witty too!
/Just gotta try harder...
//So ronery...

whosits_112

2011-12-15 01:18:57 PM

clarkcox3: But, we can't judge, right?
All cultures are equal, blah, blah, blah.

Look, I am a pretty liberal guy. Don't care about a person's religion, and I think bigots who jump at a chance to badmouth another person's way of life are pretty scuzzy.

But extremists of ANY religion are bad. I don't care who they pray to or what color they are. Gather them together and set them on fire or chop their heads off. I don't give a F*ck. It will make the world a MUCH better place.

Pants full of macaroni!!

2011-12-15 01:23:51 PM

Bacon is Meat Candy: But she's not a witch. I think maybe she used to be though.

She's me. Or so she said in that ad.

Charles Martel

2011-12-15 01:23:55 PM

Let's send Rosie O'Donnell instead.

stuffy

2011-12-15 01:24:04 PM

Would like to roast her on my grill.

coldones

2011-12-15 01:24:36 PM

Roto-Rot: Convicted witch my life will end at midnight on the stake

My dedicated life was spent to insubordinate

vonster

2011-12-15 01:26:54 PM

jst3p

2011-12-15 01:34:47 PM

Joke if you want, but witchcraft is real.

These witches are constantly casting a shrinking spell on my pants.

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Keizer_Ghidorah

2011-12-15 01:45:49 PM

The Middle East is such a waste,
let's turn the whole thing into paste!

Delawheredad

2011-12-15 01:45:57 PM

Yes there are folks as nutty as this in the USA, However, virtually none of them want to impose the death penalty for "practicing witchcraft." They can't "repent" and be "saved" if they are dead. Even the furthest right wing theocracy, assuming it could take over America, would not be as evil and corrupt as Saudi Arabia's.

Tricky Chicken

2011-12-15 01:53:11 PM

Latinwolf: Bacon is Meat Candy: But she's not a witch. I think maybe she used to be though.

She turned me into a newt, she's a witch.

A newt?

frepnog

2011-12-15 01:59:19 PM

Tricky Chicken: Latinwolf: Bacon is Meat Candy: But she's not a witch. I think maybe she used to be though.

She turned me into a newt, she's a witch.

A newt?

i got better...

Huggermugger

2011-12-15 02:03:24 PM

There are lots of Saudis and Gulf Arabs who believe in supernatural stuff, potions and spells and talismans and curses and the Evil Eye. I was always quite bewildered by it when I lived in the Middle East.

PillsHere

2011-12-15 02:11:55 PM

If there are witches in Saudi Arabia, they're doing it wrong. Poor women.

rwfan

2011-12-15 02:20:32 PM

scottydoesntknow: CSB: My next-door neighbor had the strangest family. 5 kids, all home-schooled and devoutly religious. Well the pokemon fad just hit and EVERYONE was collecting those pokemon cards (I stuck with MagicTG, you know the more sophistocated game). My neighbor (aged 12, 2 years younger than me) starts spending all of his allowance on the cards. He was picking them up left and right and actually had some valuable ones from what I can remember. Well one day his sister gets really pissed at him for some stupid reason and she decides to hop on the internet. 2 searches later she prints out a sheet from some crazy religious website that proved pokemon cards "were from the devil to pull children away from God and worship false idols" and handed it to the mom. That afternoon he comes over to my house crying with his full set of cards and says his mom is making him give them away and hands them all to me. I asked him what he wanted me to do since I wouldn't use them and he said he didn't care.

One trip with my dad to the local card shop later and I had close to $300 cash (well actually around $250 because I was building a Sliver deck and they had a Sliver Queen & assorted others I had to get).

Just so you know, there is nothing cool about that story.

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Barricaded Gunman

2011-12-15 02:31:08 PM

I wonder what the Saudis will be up to, say... a hundred years from now?

rwfan

2011-12-15 02:33:45 PM

whosits_112: clarkcox3: But, we can't judge, right?
All cultures are equal, blah, blah, blah.

Look, I am a pretty liberal guy. Don't care about a person's religion, and I think bigots who jump at a chance to badmouth another person's way of life are pretty scuzzy.

But extremists of ANY religion are bad. I don't care who they pray to or what color they are. Gather them together and set them on fire or chop their heads off. I don't give a F*ck. It will make the world a MUCH better place.

Did you catch the video at the end of the article? Quoting: "if I thought my brother was an infidel I would have said it was OK to execute him". The guy saying that is not an extremist. I don't have a problem with badmouthing that kind of thinking, do you?

mekki

2011-12-15 02:53:46 PM

TV's Vinnie: This is a tactic that Sado Arabia (That's what I call that sh*thole) does whenever they find some uppity female that wants reforms.

Even they tend to shy away from charging a person with protesting because of the obvious international outcry it would attract, so they just call it witchcraft (cuz only someone in league with the Devil would not want to wear a black bag over them during Summer in the desert or to have their vay-jays sliced off, right?) and it resonates with the Arabian version of Alabama rednecks there.

Yep. The Crucible: Saudi Arabian style

I've always wondered how many people who throw the name of God around actually believe in God or they are, in truth, barely believers, agnostic or atheists who are just doing it because it serves their agenda. I mean, God is the ultimate excuse. He never responds with, "Hold on, you said I want you to do WHAT? Oh, no, no, no. Leave me out of your crazy."

give me doughnuts

2011-12-15 02:58:54 PM

A woman in Kuwait just lost custody of her children because she was accused of practicing "sorcery."

Oznog

2011-12-15 03:02:27 PM

TFA seems to say they're arresting astrologers, faith healers, and your run-of-the-mill charlatan. I'm picturing the lady who tells you you've got a curse on you and the only way to remove it is to bury a box with $20,000 in it in an easily recoverable place.

Maybe the problem here is a mistranslation. Arresting "Religious Fraudsters", I could get behind that.

Mouser

2011-12-15 03:03:07 PM

In yet another reminder that the phrase "witch hunts" isn't only used figuratively these days, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that it had beheaded a woman named Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser for practicing "witchcraft and sorcery." The London-based al-Hayat newspaper, citing the chief of the religious police who arrested the woman after a report from a female investigator, claims Nasser was tricking people into paying $800 per session to have their illnesses cured.

Am I a bad person for thinking the so-called "witch" got what she deserved here?

Loreweaver

2011-12-15 03:20:01 PM

jst3p: Joke if you want, but witchcraft is real.

These witches are constantly casting a shrinking spell on my pants.

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Are you sure it's supposed to be a *shrinking* spell?

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