Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing 537
An anonymous reader writes with a link to The Huffington Post, which reports "that a Saudi man was sentenced to 2,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for dancing naked on the roof of a car and posting the video online, according to multiple reports. Three other men were also sentenced to three to seven years in jail and hundreds of lashes each for the incident, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Arabic-language paper Al-Sharq. The four men were hit with a number of charges, including "encouraging vice" and violating public morality, according to the report. The prosecutor in the case, which was heard by a judge in Saudi Arabia's conservative Al-Qassem province, reportedly objected to the sentences for being "too lenient," Gulf News notes. The video was reportedly circulated widely on the Internet, but could not be found by The Huffington Post."
Re:Being a Saudi (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Coming soon to your country. (Score:2, Informative)
Killing babies is illegal, but irrelevant to this discussion because we're talking about abortion, which is something entirely different.
Re:Don't forget Ananias (Score:4, Informative)
The core difference here is that God is the one doing the killing. Jesus basically said, "I'll take care of the sinners, you just try to live your own life well." Not that any Christians read and follow the bible, but still...
Re:Being a Saudi (Score:3, Informative)
Gotta love those peace loving muslims....
Re:Don't forget Ananias (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Being a Saudi (Score:5, Informative)
What you describe is sociopathy, not "extreme atheism". It is not the case that Russia or China were disproportionately populated by atheists. Sociopaths don't all share the same existentialist beliefs any more than neurotypicals do, but what they do share is a lack of ethics. Atheists do not share lesser ethics than theists.
Re:I agree with the punishment (Score:5, Informative)
That is what Saudi Arab is, another dude 8 years for raping, torturing and killing his own 5 year old daughter.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-cleric-years-prison-killing-child-20506973 [go.com]
Re:Don't forget Ananias (Score:2, Informative)
A better reason people accept the inconsistencies is they don't read the damned thing.
Anyone who reads (i.e., actually parses, tries to understand, etc.) the bible comes out of it
either totally confused or an Atheist.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.html
Some claim the Bible is a source of morality, but that's clearly BS - tons of immoral things are advocated. Even the 10 commandments are at least 50% garbage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8ooMBIyC8
Others claim that it's great literature. Again, BS - it's horribly written, rewritten and amounts of a bunch of boring text interspersed with occasional, weird and random violence.
Mostly it's just a book people point to but either avoid reading or read without attempting comprehension, as a part of their tribal affiliation.
Re:Don't forget Ananias (Score:3, Informative)
There are three "Gods": God, the Father; His Son, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Ghost. The first two have bodies, the last one does not. The Bible is fairly plain about this. For instance, when Christ was baptized in the River Jordan by John the Baptist, He was in the river while the Father spoke from the heavens and the Holy Ghost appeared such that people described Him "like a dove." See. Three separate beings. They act with a single purpose like how a husband and wife should.