Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'

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(12-12) 05:21 PST RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) --

Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.

The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement the execution took place Monday, but gave no details on the woman's crime.

The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.

The paper said a female investigator followed up, and the woman was arrested in April, 2009, and later convicted in a Saudi court.

It did not give the woman's name, but said she was in her 60s.



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[AlbertCat]

1. Ahhhhh.... our faithful allies, the House of Saud!

Could we send Benny Hinn there... please?

[Fumesucker]

2. Lest we forget..

[CanonRay]

3. Convict her of fraud, maybe

and give her a couple of years. We are allied with the most sick and pathetic society in the world.

[immoderate]

4. Except maybe for us.

--imm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. the way faith healers screw up innocents here,

maybe we could learn something from the House of Saud.

How many diabetic children have died because their families pray with a faith healer, in lieu of allowing a doctor to begin an insulin treatment?

[saras]

6. So if you don't agree with them, kill them? Even if your "science" is discredited in a decade?

We never should have taken homosexuality out of the PDM, right? That was real science. Eugenics was just as much "real science" as any other science America did in the twentieth century.

It's Saudi Arabia. For all we know, she was offering Western medicine.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. the PDR has changed and grown over the years, and reflects

our best knowledge at the time of its printing.

Faith healing has never grown, despite decades of repeated failure. If a bunch of adults, at the behest of their cult's leader, deliberately refuse to treat a 7 yr old with diabetes, and instead, hold hands and pray over the suffering kid, I think that they should be prosecuted. For murder. What's your solution, make them pray harder?

[justiceischeap]

7. This is what would happen if we had a "prayer" constitutional amendment in the US

that Rick Perry and his ilk is so fond of.

[brooklynite]

8. So they arrested her because she -DID- cure them, or because she -DIDN'T-?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Christine O'Donnell must be feeling relieved she doesn't live there

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. "Saudi Arabia: Our Partners in Peace"