Topic: Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam (Read 1169 times)

What I find most disturbing is the fact that muslims hear about all these atrocities and yet do not see anything wrong in the religion. They even go on to say it is a religion of PEACE!!

The 800 lashes part... is the death sentence...

Anything more than 39 lashes is considered a death sentence (because you will likely die... very painfully)

unless you stop driving your car that ain't going to happen too soon  

(and don't anyone give me any crap about the country they reside in produces xyz of their own oil, still on a global level driving your car and a heap of other activities modern people love so much supports the saudi's)

So note to self stay clear of dubia and hope the Saudis lose their power hold soon.

He was initially sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Surprised how the retrial enhanced the sentence from 4 years to death sentence.

Islam is a plauge to this planet. 

Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam

<< A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia's nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam. A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.

Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014. But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.

"I was really shocked but it was expected, though I didn't do anything that deserves death", Fayadh told the Guardian.

Mona Kareem, a migrant rights activist from Kuwait who has led a campaign for the poet's release, said: "For one and a half years they promised him an appeal and kept intimidating him that there's new evidence. He was unable to assign a lawyer because his ID was confiscated when he was arrested [in January 2014]. Then they said you must have a retrial and we'll change the prosecutor and the judges. The new judge didn't even talk to him, he just made the verdict."

Fayadh's supporters believe he is being punished by hardliners for posting a video online showing the religious police (mutaween) in Abha lashing a man in public. "Some Saudis think this was revenge by the morality police", said Kareem. Kareem also believes that Fayadh has been targeted because he is a Palestinian refugee, although he was born in Saudi Arabia. >>

Source: The Guardian

Once Trump or Carson is president I fully expect to be put to death for being an atheist. 

People are a plague to this planet. Most western states used to do this sort of stuff but the Islamic states are currently lagging behind in getting with the times but this is just what happens when you let religious nuts get there own way and run a country. I'm sure many Christian would want to kill people for similar things if they could get away with it.

Islam is a plauge to this planet.