Saudis Execute "Sorceress"

Absolutely barbaric.  And we do business with these people.  What a bullshit religion.  It was wrong when the so-called "Christians" tortured, drowned and burned women as "witches" and it's wrong for the Islamists to kill anyone for so-called sorcery (men have been accused of sorcery, in Saudi Arabia and also sentenced to death.  Now, whether any male has actually been executed???  The Saudi authorities don't hesitate to kill women, though.)

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'

AP – 11 hrs ago

 

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.

The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement the execution took place Monday, but gave no details on the woman's crime.

The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.

The paper said a female investigator followed up, and the woman was arrested in April, 2009, and later convicted in a Saudi court.

It did not give the woman's name, but said she was in her 60s.

The execution brings the total to 76 this year in Saudi Arabia, according to an Associated Press count. At least three have been women.