admit being atheist, get a flogging

[Robert]

Or, to be more precise, multiple floggings:

After Friday prayers at the Al-Jafali mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, Raif Badawi will receive the first 50 lashes of his 1,000 stroke sentence for the crime of publishing blasphemy against Islam on Facebook.

In May, Badawi, a father of three, was sentenced to five years in prison, and will receive 1,000 lashes to be administered in public over the next 20 weeks using a seven-foot bamboo cane the width of a man's little finger. His misdeed: admitting on Facebook that he is an atheist, a supporter of women's rights, and saying: "The combination of the sword and the Quran are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb."

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Or, to be more precise, multiple floggings:

Oh but it's Saudi Arabia so it's fine. As we know they are a bastian of democracy that votes for their king and has womens' rights, free speech and non-bad beheadings.

The irony is that he is being beaten by men for his transgression because if it was left up to Allah to punish him everybody knows nothing would happen.


(Aside: "The War Against Terror". He he he. like it.)

 

[metalman]

There are eight countries in the world where atheism is a capital crime, and in an amazing coincidence, ALL EIGHT OF THEM are Muslim majority countries!

so note, Saudi Arabia is one of the "tolerant" Muslim countries, you only get flogged there

What It’s Like to Be an Atheist in Palestine

he was lucky, he lived on the West Bank, not Gaza

Fluffy, take the next plane to Gaza, and then report back what happens when you tell your Hamas buddies your an atheist.