Petition Against Saudi Witchcraft Execution Goes Online
Saturday February 23, 2008
There's been quite a bit in the Pagan media lately -- and even in the mainstream news -- about the sad case of Fawza Falih Mumammad Ali, an illiterate Saudi Arabian woman who has been sentenced to death for crimes involving witchcraft. The group Human Rights Watch has appealed to King Abdullah, and said in a statement that the "kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of "absurd charges that have no basis in law."
Judges in the case sentences Falih based upon a coerced confession and on statements made by witnesses who claimed the woman had "bewitched" them, including one man who accused her of rendering him impotent with magic. She was convicted in April 2006, but later retracted her confession in court. Falih said that because she does not know how to read or right, she had no understanding of the document she signed with a fingerprint.
Now the American Muslim's petition to halt the execution has now made it online, and is signed by such notable names as Phyllis Curott, Oberon Zell, and Selena Fox. There are signatures on there from all spiritual paths, including Jewish, Christian and Islamic leaders from around the world.
Although an online petition is not a legal document, and isn't something that can be used as part of a voting process or legislative issue, what it can do is make people aware of what's going on. It also speaks on behalf of people who can't speak for themselves. One can hope that this case will attract enough attention that King Abdullah will do what is right and just, and pardon Falih.
Judges in the case sentences Falih based upon a coerced confession and on statements made by witnesses who claimed the woman had "bewitched" them, including one man who accused her of rendering him impotent with magic. She was convicted in April 2006, but later retracted her confession in court. Falih said that because she does not know how to read or right, she had no understanding of the document she signed with a fingerprint.
Now the American Muslim's petition to halt the execution has now made it online, and is signed by such notable names as Phyllis Curott, Oberon Zell, and Selena Fox. There are signatures on there from all spiritual paths, including Jewish, Christian and Islamic leaders from around the world.
Although an online petition is not a legal document, and isn't something that can be used as part of a voting process or legislative issue, what it can do is make people aware of what's going on. It also speaks on behalf of people who can't speak for themselves. One can hope that this case will attract enough attention that King Abdullah will do what is right and just, and pardon Falih.
Comments
Some people in politics and the media never paint the truth about Islam. The modhammedan koran actually orders followers to kill those who convert away from islam, to kill those who “blaspheme” whatever that means. They kill those who attempt to convert moslems too.
In the USA it is not politically correct to admit these facts. Your petition did not get national media coverage did it?
The same people who murder Christians and Jews murder those of other faiths too. Are liberals surprised? The are not. They are in denial…
I wish His Highness would send her to me. I wish I could bring her home from there. I would share my poor and humble home with her and not try to change her. She would most likely miss her family, but she would live and perhaps learn to read and write and fight for her sisters (women) someday.
These Acts Show The Intolerance & The Ignorance Within The Muslem Faith
This is mostly addressed to Friend, but also to ROYBIN:
Friend, you are constantly going on about how people are persecuting you for your beliefs. Come off of it already. You are so bigoted yourself. Can you not read? She said “There are signatures on there from all spiritual paths, including Jewish, Christian and ISLAMIC leaders from around the world.” Who cares what the Koran says? It’s all in the interpretation. The Bible says “Suffer not a witch to live”. Does that mean that you can go around killing witches because your God says so? Your God also says “Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself.” You should take that to heart.
People are people, and are capable of fundamentalism and horrid injustice, whether they be Muslim people, Christian people, or Pagan people.
Remember that.
-ArdentFlame
Islam orders its people to kill any who convert to other faiths or who try to persuade others to convert. This is evil and immoral.
Those few moslems who don’t agree have to deny their own religion to do so. After all Mohammedans follow their own holy book - Koran. If they don’t, they are bad Mohammedans. Only Islam orders its faithful to kill converts and evangelists. That is morally evil and proof that Islam is false.