A world in a coat of lunatics 22 Solomon's sentence Saudi Arabian version

With spring... the "Monster Observations of the Lebanon Mountains" have resumed

Yoram Mizrachi

Solomon's sentence in the Saudi Arabian version

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Four foreign workers from the Philippines were brought one of the last Fridays to the square in Khafar al-Matin where they were hanged one by one. A few hours before, a foreign worker from India was hanged in Jeddah. The five were convicted in connection with two separate murders. While in the case of the Indian accused there was no doubt that the man had murdered a roommate, it was not clear which of the four Filipinos was responsible for the murder of a foreign worker who was also a Filipino citizen.
The attempts of President Gloria Macfagel Arroyo to act for the amnesty of the four failed, after the Royal Palace in Riyadh stated that "Saudi Arabia is not ready to hear criticism, or requests for amnesty and commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment that come from governments whose countries carry out such sentences" following the executions in Khafar al-Matin It turned out that during the trial, a senior Dayan commented, almost in the style of Solomon's trial, "that it is impossible to determine which of the four participated in the murder - There is no choice but to hang them all" The verdicts brought to twenty-five the number of hangmen who met with the executioner's sword since the first of January this year. Most of the felony punishments are related to drug offenses and usually the defendants are foreign citizens.
In Saudi courts, the judges hand out criminals according to Sharia laws with a broad and painful hand whipping punishments. In one case, a university lecturer who dared to visit the royal family was sentenced to more than two hundred lashes at the end of his trial. While the lecturer's case is under scrutiny, mainly due to international pressure, Saudi Arabia's whippers are busy carrying out sentences, which include "following whippings"... The intention is to carry out particularly heavy whipping punishments during which the whipped person faints, or a doctor decides that the wounds are too deep. In such cases, the injured whipper is transferred to a hospital or clinic and is usually spared the further punishment procedure, but in cases of punishment for a serious crime or a felon, the rehabilitated whipper is returned to the perpetrators-experts until the punishment quota is completed.
Recently, an organization of political expatriates from the West-Saudi Arabia, operating in the UK, published a news item according to which two whipping police officers from Pakistan, who were sent to check the results of the whipping of a hospitalized Pakistani prisoner, had visited the kingdom. The trip was financed by the relatives of the prisoner who hope that the findings will help in the preparation of a request for pardon and mercy to be submitted to King Fahd's court. According to the Saudi expatriates, "the Pakistanis commented that, unlike the Pakistani expatriates, the Saudis use a whip made from the male penis of a dried camel but maintains its flexibility." According to the Pakistani "experts", the Saudi whip caused particularly serious injuries.
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With spring... the "Monster Observations of the Lebanon Mountains" have resumed
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With the beginning of spring, searches for a creature defined as "a large dragon-like reptile" or sometimes "the monster of Mount Lebanon" were renewed in Lebanon. The gendarmerie in the Aali area, for example, has already reported on "first sightings" given by those who claim to have encountered the monster... The preoccupation with the Lebanese dragon began two years ago, after a driver driving from Beirut to her home, claimed to have seen a monster-like animal "cross a road, stand on a rock and from there watch the road" Since then, many Lebanese have been reporting "certain sightings" of the legendary creature. In recent years, gendarmes and members of Lebanon's civil defense went to the mountains to search for the monster, whose estimated size varies from report to report. Several "reliable" witnesses told of a reptile "the size of an alligator" a shepherd swears that the monster looks like "a low donkey with the head of a snake" while scientists from the American University in Beirut, try to reconstruct a "reasonable description" and note that "the analysis of the evidence" points to a Komodo dragon-like reptile of the Far East. A rare creature that does not have a distribution in the Middle East.
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The Ayatollahs are satisfied with the island of peace in Bahrain
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Iranian Ayatollahs responded positively to a large demonstration held in Bahrain by supporters of Sharia law. The demonstration, which followed a year of social shocks in Bahrain and claims by the Shiite majority there for religious extremism, is causing concern in the Gulf states and principalities as well as in the "big sister" that is Saudi Arabia. Naif Naif, who is one of the heads of the Saudi royal family, said in Riyadh "that the protesters in Bahrain are behaving like madmen who claim Islam in a Muslim country" a comment that drew angry reactions and demands for an apology. In the background of the events are important constitutional debates, which engage a wide Bahraini public and provoke debates between factional groups and individuals.
At the head of the last demonstration, in which approximately ten thousand Friday worshipers who had just left the mosques participated, was Sheikh Ali Salman, who is the chairman of the "Society for Islamic Reconciliation in Bahrain", a civil organization with extreme views that supports changes to the constitution, which he also described as "positive Muslim terror" The so-called spontaneous, marched for two kilometers before being stopped by police officers, that blocked access to the Sita quarter, where the winds were raging. Among other things, unrest is also reported in Kuwait, with the background being a demand by women and liberal circles for law changes that will allow women to integrate into political life. In the Principality of Oman, Ruler Qaboos reacted with threatening disdain when he said, "With us there is no need to demonstrate, I make changes without outside influences"
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The fetus was discovered in a bed of vegetables
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A domestic worker from the Philippines, who was employed in Borneo by a wealthy Muslim family, is on trial for committing an abortion contrary to Islamic law and the criminal law. Forty-year-old Rosario Da'tev Kachpagal, whose husband and children live in the Philippines, became pregnant for her Bornean employer and in her despair enlisted the help of one of her friends to perform an artificial abortion. Immediately after, Rosario buried the fetus in a vegetable bed in the garden of the house. The woman says that her intention was to transfer the fetus to a secret burial somewhere else, but before she could act, the owner of the house left to engage in his hobby... gardening. The man was using a pitchfork to turn over soil when he discovered the fetus "I thought I found a monkey carcass" the man told the police "but I quickly realized it was a fetus" In a short time the worker was arrested who after the abortion suffered an infection and bleeding that led to urgent hospitalization. When Rosario told the investigators who the father of the fetus was and the confession became known to the adulterer's family, the employer's wife attacked her husband, scratched his face until it bled, used a frying pan to beat him on the head and even managed to splash boiling oil on her husband.
Now the three are on trial. A criminal case was filed against the Filipina under the law prohibiting abortion and the prosecution demands that she be sent to three years in prison plus one hundred lashes. The religious priests have not yet decided whether the case requires their intervention, because it is about Christianity and now they are discussing the issue of "If a baby was born, what would his religion be?" The employer in question was brought to a Shara'i court where an adultery case was filed against him, with the plaintiff proposing to impose a punishment of flogging and the obligation to memorize Koran verses in Parhasiya. The employer's wife is on trial for aggravated assault and the prosecution demands that she be sentenced to actual imprisonment plus flogging. In the meantime, it was reported that the husband of the household worker, who heard about his wife's misdeeds, appealed to the Catholic bishop in his area of ​​residence with a request to annul his marriage. The employee's claims that the boss forced her to have sex were rejected by the prosecution "as irrelevant accusations"... ...
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A woman led a Muslim prayer in the US - riot in Malaysia
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The mufti of one of the rural areas in Malaysia, near the Thai border, incited believers who erupted with calls for revenge. Some were hysterically shouting and crying when the mufti assigned a woman of Malaysian origin and a resident of New York to lead a Muslim prayer. The mufti who addressed the Friday worshipers read from the pulpit a news item published in one of the newspapers according to which a new Muslim group advocating equality between the sexes had been organized in the United States. The group is headed by a number of young women, some of whom are Americans who converted to Islam in recent years, as well as foreign-born Muslims. The prayer in the presence of one hundred and fifty believers was held under the auspices of an Anglican church that made one of its halls available to the worshipers. The mufti of Borneo told the faithful that finding the prayer leader in Malaysia may cause "divine wrath that will harm the woman's family, her relatives and neighbors." When the warning was heard, some of the worshipers began to shout and others beat themselves and burst into tears after someone suggested that a number of drowning disasters, which have hit the area in recent weeks and even... the tsunami disaster, happened because Acts of heresy include the sin of women behaving as men.
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A snake as an offensive tool...
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Members of a Thai-Islamic terrorist organization used a poisonous snake to take over a guard post and a fortified police checkpoint. The terrorists threw a large venomous snake through the window of the outpost's bedroom, causing panic. While policemen are fleeing for their lives from the fear of the snake, the terrorists took a small boy to the room who quickly collected weapons and ammunition which he gave to his friends. The operation went wrong when a brave sergeant entered the room armed with an iron rod which he used to kill the snake. The boy, who did not have time to escape, was arrested and when asked how he dared to enter the room where the large snake was writhing, he said that the snake's venom glands were removed before the operation. Islamic terrorist activities in southern Thailand caused more than seven hundred deaths in the course of one year. In the latest attack, which came immediately after the snake incident, insurgents ambushed a train full of police officers and opened fire as the cars rolled into a station. Eleven policemen and eight railway workers were seriously injured. The Muslim underground demands withdrawal from the Kingdom of Thailand, the establishment of an independent Muslim state or the joining of the Muslim provinces to neighboring Malaysia. Many of the rebels are among the veterans of the war in Afghanistan, where they went in the XNUMXs to fight against the Russians and the former communist regime.
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Moscow - an art and souvenir market caught fire
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A huge fire that broke out in Moscow, consumed a market of souvenirs and art objects. The site, which was a concentration of large wooden buildings, which are a reproduction of an ancient Russian construction method, included, among other things, a three-story building, a shadow-domed church and sheds. The fire broke out on the third floor of the main building, probably the result of a ceiling in the cafe kitchen. One woman who fell by the way was killed by smoke inhalation while dozens of others managed to escape. Immediately after the fire died down, some of the owners of the stores and businesses that were burned tried to attack the firefighters because at the height of the fire, the hose pipes of the fire trucks, whose tanks were empty, suddenly dried up. Nearby fire hydrants did not work and another fire brigade arrived. A lot of property went up in the fire, including art objects, including icons and religious objects. A police officer appointed to investigate what was defined as a "safety failure" meanwhile caused anger after, in response to the claims of one of the traders, he commented "that the disaster of the loss of the goods is not terrible because it is fakes anyway." The Moscow Municipality meanwhile promised to work to restore the site, which is included in the list of preferred visit destinations for locals and tourists alike. A woman rummaging through the smoky ruins, in the place where she ran a small shop, discovered a charred but intact Provoslavic cross that was immediately defined as a "miracle" and became a sought-after hit among devout believers.
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Died under eight tons of cattle dung
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A Czech citizen who drove a large tractor and engaged in hauling/transporting livestock manure was found dead while handling the load when the cart overturned and the load that slid buried the victim. The police estimated that it was a load of at least eight tons. According to the rescue service personnel who rescued the driver's body, "the man died of suffocation", the police say that in recent years there have been a number of fatal work accidents involving farmers, or drivers, etc. who were involved in the collection and disposal of livestock manure. Some of the disasters are caused by suffocation while cleaning collection pits. A short article about the disaster published in one of the North American newspapers described a case in which a farmer drowned walking on a dry and stiff crust of cattle dung that turned out to be not thick enough. The farmer slowly began to sink everything against the background of his and his friends' laughter, who did not correctly assess the magnitude of the risk. Eyewitnesses to the disaster said "the drowning man stopped laughing when the dung reached his belt buckle" Rescue attempts failed because the man disappeared into the drowning pulp before his friends could bring a rope or pole long enough to hold him. On the other hand, and at the point when the victim began to sink rapidly, one of the spectators of the amusing accident that was the fatality ran to his car and got a camera when all that was left to photograph was a large dark spot that marked the point of the drowning.