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Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
The Guardian ^ | 20 November 2015 | David Batty

Posted on 11/20/2015 6:42:09 AM PST by Leaning Right

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: renouncingislam; saudi
Some folks have said that the huge majority of Muslims are moderates. This is an opportunity for the moderates to prove that statement: Moderate Muslims should take to the streets and demand the release of Ashraf Fayadh.

If, however, there is silence across the Muslim world...

1 posted on 11/20/2015 6:42:09 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

This is the REAL danger of islam. Worse than islamic terrorism, which is bad enough.


2 posted on 11/20/2015 6:45:17 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: Leaning Right

...but I just got it from Hillary that Islam has nothing to do with violence


3 posted on 11/20/2015 6:45:31 AM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: Insigne123

Wonder if the Humans Rights Director in this country will step forward. Didn´t think so. Wonder if C.A.I.R will weigh in. Doubt it. OR will the Honorable Prez of the USA have a slight mention of this on his meeting of the press. And the Main Stream Pressers will yawn.....


4 posted on 11/20/2015 6:47:44 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: rovenstinez

Being Mooselem is like being in the Mafia you can never get out!


5 posted on 11/20/2015 6:52:46 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Leaning Right

Yep...you gotta love the “religion of peace”. It’s so tolerant of other views of faith.


6 posted on 11/20/2015 6:57:23 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Leaning Right

when this is the action of a supposedly good Muslim government supported by our political government I ask one question. What is the difference philosophically between the Saudis and Isle . My personnel belief it is the same difference as we had between fascist Germany and Fascist Italy both had to be gotten rid of.


7 posted on 11/20/2015 6:59:45 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Leaning Right

How soon before it’s the death penalty for switching parties in America?


8 posted on 11/20/2015 6:59:55 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Leaning Right

Sounds tolerant and moderate to me...


9 posted on 11/20/2015 7:03:06 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Leaning Right

There was a young man from Riyadh
Whose head from his body was sawed
When writing his prose
Deeper truths were exposed
He surmised that Islam was a fraud.


10 posted on 11/20/2015 7:08:51 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Leaning Right

There are no moderate muslims.


11 posted on 11/20/2015 7:12:55 AM PST by umgud
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To: Leaning Right

The only solution to this is to bring this case before the UN Human Rights Council.

The U.N. has recently put Saudi Arabia in charge of this council so it should be no problem sorting all this out.


12 posted on 11/20/2015 7:23:56 AM PST by Junk Silver
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To: Leaning Right

WH news conference @ 12:00 Noon EST...what? Oh, it has been cancelled...who knew? /s


13 posted on 11/20/2015 7:33:15 AM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: Leaning Right

They don’t call it the religion of pieces for nothing.


14 posted on 11/20/2015 7:50:02 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Leaning Right
Wha....er...wait. Didn't the Palestinians open up a new front with a terrorist attack on the United States that killed an 18 year old American kid yesterday in the mid-east?

I don't care what happens to some Pali no matter what the circumstances....those people stood on the roofs of their huts and cheered the Twin Towers coming down. All of them are dead to me....or damn well should be. JMHO

15 posted on 11/20/2015 8:09:07 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Leaning Right

The Sauds aren’t taking in any ‘refugees’ either... they know what they’re dealing with ... Muslim surplus men... the Sauds don’t want them - they’re having enough trouble getting rid of their own.


16 posted on 11/20/2015 8:12:55 AM PST by GOPJ (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. It's nuts.)
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