by Aaron Murray
Ali Hussain Sibat,of Lebanon,is scheduled to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia any day now on the charge of “sorcery”.
Sibat,who has a television show in Lebanon where he would predict the future,was arrested by the Saudi religious police back in May of 2008 when he was in the country making the Islamic Pilgrimage of Umra. In November of last year he was put on trial,found guilty and sentenced to be put to death. Sibat’s sentence was upheld on appeal and his lawyers said yesterday that his beheading could be happening any day now.
Here are CNN’s original article on the matter,and the latest article.
Often people as the naive question of “whats the harm?” when it comes to people odd,unsupported beliefs. Sadly, Mr.Sibat, his wife and 5 children may soon get the answer to that question.
For more examples of where unsupported “harmless’ beliefs have gone horribly wrong,visit Tim Farley’s web page What’s the Harm? for numerous examples.
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