Bloggers beware of Islam

Shen1986 wrote:

Religion of peace sentences activist blogger to 600 lashes plus seven years in jail for insulting Islam

According to CNN, activist blogger Raif Badwi, in jail for 13 months already, has been sentenced to 7 years plus 600 lashes for”insulting Islam through his website and in television comments”.

Badawi’s legal troubles started shortly after he started the Free Saudi Liberals website in 2008. He was detained for one day and questioned about the site. Some clerics even branded him an unbeliever and apostate.

Last summer, Human Rights Watch released a statement urging Saudi authorities to free Badawi.

“Saudi authorities should drop charges and release the editor of the Free Saudi Liberals website for violating his right to freedom of expression on matters of religion and religious figures,” a statement from the group said at the time.

. . . Amnesty International called that trial “just one of a troubling string of court cases aimed at silencing the kingdom’s human-rights activists.”

And there are repercussions for his family, as there always are in Islamic society:

Ensaf Haidar, Badawi’s wife, said she’s devastated by the news.

“I don’t know what to do,” Haidar said Wednesday. “Raif did nothing wrong.”

Haidar and the couple’s three children now live in Lebanon.

Estranged from her family, Haidar said it would be impossible to take her children back to Saudi Arabia. The stigma is too strong there.

“You feel like everybody’s accusing you,” she said, close to tears, in an April interview. “Like everybody’s against you, at war with you.”

Nobody does “being offended” better than the Saudis. The guy is only about 31 years old, has three kids, and those lashes hurt.

Taken from: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com ... ing-islam/

I can now see why its good to be a skeptic and atheist. People are nuts from religion and woo stuff and those who promote it like psychics, priests etc. are making big money from it and tyrannize people . It makes me sick to the bones.. Religion is only about money, perverse sex and dictatorship. We condemned the Nazis, Communists but not religion who makes the same things like Nazis and Communists.