1. news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8140166
2. news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8139980/suicidal-sheep-dodge-slaughter
Better way to die. Obviously sheep themselves disagree about islamania's preposterous claims that the islam-stipulated way of slaughtering animals is "more humane".
'Humane slaughter'. More christoislamic oxymorons.
Clever sheep elected the way they would go. In their place - if I had a brain - I would do the same. Who wants to be islamically sacrificed to the non-existent demonic jeebusjehovallah.
Take the leap, sheep. Be free.
Quote:Saudi witchcraft death sentence rejected
06:54 AEST Sun Nov 14 2010
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has refused to ratify the death sentence of a Lebanese psychic convicted of practicing witchcraft in a case that has outraged international human rights groups.
A three-judge panel said in its ruling on Thursday there was not enough evidence that Ali Sibat's actions harmed others. The judges ordered the case to be retried in a Medina court and recommended that the sentence be commuted and that Sibat be deported.
[color="#0000FF"]The charges in Sibat's case seem to centre on a call-in talk show he hosted on a Lebanese satellite TV station where he would tell fortunes and give advice. His supporters point out that the show was aired from Lebanon, not Saudi Arabia.
He was arrested in May 2008 by the Saudi religious police during a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina and sentenced to death in November 2009.[/color]
In Lebanon, Sibat's wife, Samira Rahmoon, welcomed the Supreme Court's decision but said she won't rest until Sibat is back home with her and their five children.
"Of course I was very happy. A house without a man is worth nothing; we are borrowing money every month just to get bread to eat," she said. "But I am still scared. Unless I see him at Beirut airport with my own eyes I will always be scared for him."
[color="#0000FF"]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 fortune-telling. The deeply religious authorities in Saudi Arabia consider these practices polytheism.[/color]
[color="#800080"](It's not "polytheism". Even the "polytheistic" Roman empire since centuries before christianism outlawed various practices of Stregaria, which was considered harmful sorcery. In many traditional religions harmful practices are discouraged. The difference is that islam like christianism threatens/implements death for anything and everything that it will construe as witchcraft - i.e. anything unchristian - including heathen/traditional religious practices like Hellenistic oracles, and other harmless ones like "fortune telling".
Christoislamism will club all these heathen and other harmless practices together with harmful ones under one blanket banner of "black magic/witchcraft/polytheism" - thereby slandering natural religions as having practices they specifically do not encourage - and murders them all out.)[/color]
[color="#0000FF"]According to Amnesty International, the last known execution on a witchcraft conviction was the 2007 beheading of an Egyptian pharmacist, Mustafa Ibrahim, who was found guilty of casting spells in an attempt to separate a married couple.[/color]
The charges are often vague - covering anything from [color="#0000FF"]fortune-telling to astrology to making charms and talismans believed to bring love, health or pregnancy.[/color] Saudi judges cite Koranic verses forbidding [color="#0000FF"]witchcraft[/color], but such practices remain popular as a [color="#0000FF"]folk tradition[/color].
[color="#800080"](Like I said: christoislamism also puts heathen practices - and other harmless ones - under the "witchcraft" label. Everything is declared "equally" evil, including traditional heathen practices. On the other end of the spectrum, many modern neopagans generally declare everything equally "good" and will whine that their "own kind" elsewhere are "persecuted", when heathens from China to India disapprove of harmful practices - just as heathens in ancient European nations also disapproved of practices that harmed their society and hurt individuals.
People of heathen religions make a careful distinction. The Roman Laws were strict. But heathen societies don't generally persecute to death those who dabble in harmful practices (but heathen societies do tend to solemnly discourage them), even if heathen families and smaller communities may take individual action as retaliation against any such who hurt them. Certainly, unlike christoislamism which goes on witch hunts and where mere suspicion is enough to bring on christoislamaniac persecution, heathen societies do not see shadows everywhere and declare harmless things as "witchcraft".)[/color]
In January, an appeals court in Mecca agreed to review Sibat's death sentence, but in March another set of judges in Medina upheld the sentence, saying he practiced sorcery publicly on a TV show and that made him an infidel.
Sibat's Lebanese lawyer, May al-Khansa, said she believes the Saudi Supreme Court's decision means he will soon be released.
"There is no reason for a retrial; either he's guilty and they have evidence, or they don't," she said. "The fact that the court rejected the death sentence means that he's innocent and the next step is closing the case and deporting him to Lebanon."
Amnesty International says a Sudanese man, Abdul-Hamid al-Fakki, has also been convicted of sorcery and is still believed to be at risk of execution.
2. news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8139980/suicidal-sheep-dodge-slaughter
Quote:Sheep jump to death before slaughter
14:00 AEST Sat Nov 13 2010
By ninemsn staff
A herd of sheep being led to slaughter in Turkey have instead ended their lives by leaping off a cliff.
Herder Mejmet Gana was guiding his 52 sheep across a mountain range when suddenly one of the sheep turned to the edge of a cliff and jumped, quickly followed by the rest, Russian TV station RT reports.
The sheep were being taken to a local market where they were going to be sold for a Muslim holiday that involves animal sacrifice.
The sheep carcasses were found at the bottom of the cliff.
[color="#0000FF"]But it's not the first time the European country has witnessed an unprovoked mass sheep suicide. In 2005, 1500 sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey.[/color]
The first 450 were killed, but the rest survived by landing on the dead bodies of the herd below, the Aksam newspaper reported.
Better way to die. Obviously sheep themselves disagree about islamania's preposterous claims that the islam-stipulated way of slaughtering animals is "more humane".
'Humane slaughter'. More christoislamic oxymorons.
Clever sheep elected the way they would go. In their place - if I had a brain - I would do the same. Who wants to be islamically sacrificed to the non-existent demonic jeebusjehovallah.
Take the leap, sheep. Be free.