Comments on: TV Presenter On Death Row For Witchcraft

By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:39:48 +0000

This is horrible to hear! I think that we should make this publicly known…

At least I know that I am not going to Saudi Arabia, I do not fancy being on death row for using mind manipulation.
WITCHCRAFT! Get into the 21st century, scary countries and people there in the middle east.

What is there what we can do?

By: Beanie

Beanie — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:35:09 +0000

Let’s hang every Saudie that predicts an increase in oil prices.

By: debbie

debbie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:11:14 +0000

Hi Alan,
sorry I completely misread your comment!
Yes global awareness is needed!

By: debbie

debbie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:05:22 +0000

Is it that interested in global awareness? or just happy to conserve the old values (kill whatever you cant handle, dont understand or may endanger your viewpoint)? in de name of whatever god is available, ofcourse.

By: yankeedoodleAWESOME

yankeedoodleAWESOME — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:06:11 +0000

well, thank god I live in the greatest country ever, America. We definitely learned out lesson about religious intolerance, the ludicrous notion of witchcraft, and hate towards those that don’t believe what we do. it was a little thing called the Salem witch trials, and we LEARNED gosh-darnit. Our country’d never back intolerance, religious persecution, and fear based hate these day’s. Except of course Harry potter, Gay-marriage, our desire to police the rest of the world(totally our right), abortion. We aren’t hypocritical, we are AMERICA, and we are better than the rest of you, and we know it.

By: ReliegiousMarie

ReliegiousMarie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:07:44 +0000

@AlanC, sure you as a civilian can do very little but adressing it helps. Dr.Muhamad Mugraby has been here before as a human-rights-lawyer…and he has appealed with his own case with Amnesty Int. and the European Court. succesfully.

Your right about Saudie´s little interest and it being good to bring this under the awareness of int. leaders. That´s what this man is trying to do so hard, you know?

By: AlanC

AlanC — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:48:03 +0000

It doesn’t surprise me in the least. I used to live in Suadi years ago, when I was little. I remember going on a tour through the old part of Jeddah on a day they were carrying out public punishments. They stopped the bus and made all the tourists get out and stand near the front whilst they cut 1 mans hand off and beheaded another. Can still see it in my head, something I will never forget! But you would have thought the Lebonese Government/Foreign Office would have stepped in and tried to have the man exradited instead. Also someone posted before about trying to get the European Courts of Human Rights involved, surely they would have no juridiction whatsoever in Saudi and I very much doubt the Saudi Government would b interested in hearing from them. What it needs is global awareness and then global leaders put pressure on Saudi

By: FT

FT — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:44:35 +0000

harming people is against the Wiccan Rede lmaooo

By: OtherMike

OtherMike — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:53:49 +0000

I trust Derren will not be going on Hajj any time soon!

The sad thing is I’ve spent time in Saudi Arabia and it’s a beautiful country with wonderful people. They deserve better from their authorities, this sort of thing does nothing for their standing in the world. And as Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques they have no right to police the morals of people from other countries, this is their (parallel) religious authorities trying to extend their moral reach to the rest of the world.

And by the way no-one who knows the region ever thought that Hussein’s regime in Iraq was in any way uniquely deserving of international intervention. As a secular nasty dictatorship it was quite the opposite to certain other countries in the region.

By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:52:04 +0000

You might as well say that every weatherman, every gambler, and every child who gets involved in a guessing game is a witch too! Has anyone even bothered to check whether any of this man’s predictions came true? Actual witches don’t cause any harm to anyone anyway (If you do try to harm anyone with a so-called spell A: It will not work and B: You’re not considered a witch, because harming people is against the Wiccan Rede.)

Well done to ReliegiousMarie, by the way. Something has to be done about this!