What a barbaric punishment for just insulting a religion. Sounds like something from a horror movie.
Saudi Arabia to flog man 1,000 times for insulting religion on Facebook
Because that's so much more civilized than shooting people
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8 Jan 2015 at 22:35, Iain Thomson
After Friday prayers at the Al-Jafali mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, Raif Badawi will receive the first 50 lashes of his 1,000 stroke sentence for the crime of publishing blasphemy against Islam on Facebook.
In May, Badawi, a father of three, was sentenced to five years in prison, and will receive 1,000 lashes to be administered in public over the next 20 weeks using a seven-foot bamboo cane the width of a man's little finger. His misdeed: admitting on Facebook that he is an atheist, a supporter of women's rights, and saying: "The combination of the sword and the Quran are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb."
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Saudi Arabia to flog man 1,000 times for insulting religion on Facebook
Because that's so much more civilized than shooting people
67
13
16
8 Jan 2015 at 22:35, Iain Thomson
After Friday prayers at the Al-Jafali mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, Raif Badawi will receive the first 50 lashes of his 1,000 stroke sentence for the crime of publishing blasphemy against Islam on Facebook.
In May, Badawi, a father of three, was sentenced to five years in prison, and will receive 1,000 lashes to be administered in public over the next 20 weeks using a seven-foot bamboo cane the width of a man's little finger. His misdeed: admitting on Facebook that he is an atheist, a supporter of women's rights, and saying: "The combination of the sword and the Quran are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb."
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Saudi Arabia to flog man 1 000 times for insulting religion on Facebook The Register?