Saudi beheaded for smuggling marijuana into kingdom

Canada.com ^ | 9.14.03 | Canadian Press

[freepatriot32]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A Saudi drug trafficker was beheaded Sunday, a Ministry of Interior statement said.

Dhaher bin Thamer al-Shimry was convicted of smuggling marijuana into the kingdom, the statement said.

Al-Shimry was beheaded in the eastern province of Hafr al-Baten, bringing the number of beheadings in the kingdom this year to 41, most of them drug traffickers. At least 49 people were beheaded last year.

This conservative Gulf country follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of drug trafficking, murder, rape and armed robbery are executed. Beheadings are carried out with a sword in public.

[freepatriot32]

Remeber everyone islam is a religion of pieces......Errrr ummm I mean peace

[NormsRevenge]

I guess NORML will never have a convention in Jeddah or Riyadh. ;-)

[pageonetoo]

Dane would probably like this idea!

[freepatriot32]

[freepatriot32]

so would cultural jihad probably lets find out :-)

[pageonetoo]

its ok to beat your wife, but you can't smoke a joint? hmmmmmm?
yep, that's a peaceful group, all right!

[Ex-Dem]

I remember this scene from a Clancy book (Sum of All Fears?). It'd be interesting to see how effective this is...

[Rudder]

You left out the caption: "Transexuals Against Grass."

[tallhappy]

Heads always lose their heads, one way or the other.

No smuggling marijuana in to the Kingdom.

Only the finest home-produced Hashish is to be used in the Royal Hookahs.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Lot's of folks losing their heads over pot.

[tallhappy]

I see Arabia don't like pot heads.

Actually it was Arabs and related Muslim regions that foisted pot on the rest of the world as a drug.

Islamofascist dreams have been fueled by their magic carpet rides.

[Helms]

Just think of one could do with a good pot buzz and a Barbie Doll. The possibilites are endless and as decadent as the Devil himself.

[FreedomCalls]

There's not much of a drug-smuggling problem in the Kingdom I suppose.

[Restorer]

Memo to self: Find another country to smuggle pot into.

[Eastbound]

Gummints don't like renegade dealers. Has an adverse effect on street prices.

[Quick1]

I guess that's one way of heading off the drug problem.

I'll be here all night folks!

[ambrose]

And I thought Tommy Chong's 9 month sentence was excessive.

[PaxMacian]

9 month sentence was excessive, this is medieval.

[friendly]

At least 49 people were beheaded last year.

In Saudi hellhole Arabia, you can legally beat your 4 wives and children into bloody pulps, but you get beheaded for smoking a doobie? What a piece of s**t excuse for a country.