Oldfart,

I know of no one who thinks this is appropriate. Do you?


The implication that the judgement was unseemly because it originated from a "religious court" shows again that Saudi Arabia has failed to communicate that in that nation there is no distinction berween a "religious court" and a "secular court".

This then resolves to a question about the appropriateness of the saction applied to a citizen of a country for a violation of the laws of that land. As in the case of the Malaysian executions of Autralian nationals for contravening the drug trafficing laws of that nation, one must decide if one is entitled to decide how other people manage their societies. The Australian Labor party seems to have adopted the position that this is a good political posture.


Yes, I agree. The political theories, unchecked by the data feedback empirical disciplines enjoy, which extremist governments employ to visit genocidal slaughter upon their myriad victims require no religious zeal to justify their ends.

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