A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to four months imprisonment, 40 lashes, and deportation from the country for having two men not related to her in her home.

This incident occurred last year, but the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, was sentenced only recently. She was dining with two unrelated men, “Fahd” and “Hadian.” She nursed Fahd when he was young, while Hadian accompanied Fahd and brought her bread.

Because she was with two men not related to her, the country’s religious police arrested both men (and sentenced both of them to several lashes and prison terms).

According to Islamic law, if a woman nurses a boy then he is considered to be a son. However, this interpretation didn’t sway the “Mutaween” or “The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” religious police.

via Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling with men – Digital Journal: Your News Network.

Unbelievable… except for the fact that we are speaking about Saudi Arabia… What a bunch of idiots!! What do they think this 75-year-old woman (in fact, an OLDIE) was doing with this two guys? Having sex? They were bringing her bread, you frigging idiots.

What dirty minds these guys have! 

Saudi imam has issued a fatwa or religious edict, banning the use of alcohol as a fuel substitute for petrol. “I warn Saudi students that live abroad not to use alcohol as a cheap substitute for petrol, because the prophet has cursed not only who drinks it but also those who use it for other purposes,” said the Saudi imam Mohammed al-Najimi, quoted by Saudi daily, Shams.

via Saudi Arabia: Imam forbids alcohol to be used as fuel substitute – Adnkronos Religion.

Any consideration about Saudi Arabia being one of the leading exporters of oil but inappropriate for cultivating grapes would not be well received, wouldn’t it? And Khomeini said there was no fun in Islam… well, this is truly funny.

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

(…) The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.

“Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible,” Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.

Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.

“She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February],” Benz said.

via Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife : Don’t Miss : The Buffalo News.

Islam in Action via GP:

He was the founder of Bridges TV. A show started to help combat the negative perceptions of Islam and also to build bridges to the non-Muslim world.

Well, I guess beheading his wife is not the best way to “build bridges to the non-Muslim world”…

Winds of Jihad:

HASSAN and Bridges TV of Buffalo has been a focus of investigation by the Northeast Intelligence Network in the past. The Northeast Intelligence Network made several inquiries to HASSAN and Bridges TV about their relationship with al Manar television (Hizbullah’s TV) – inquiries that HASSAN and his station refused to answer. (Photo: Aasiya Zubair) (HASSAN)

Looks like as if this moderate wasn’t so moderate: Daniel Pipes writes if investors from Bridges TV were mislead about this man (h/t Michelle Malkin):

Every night, Bridges TV shows a news program, “Talking Points.” Its guest on October 4 was Imam Mohammad Alo Elahi, whom it described as a leading “interfaith figure.” According to his Web site, Imam Elahi was a spiritual leader in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian navy and also is the leader of “one of the largest mosques in the U.S.,” in Dearborn, Mich. The Web site describes his meetings with world leaders and shows photographs of him with the spiritual adviser of Hezbollah, Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah; Ayatollah Khomeini; Presidents Khatemi and Rafsanjani of Iran; Secretary-General Annan of the United Nations; and Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Throughout the day, Bridges TV airs segments of Koranic verses, quite a few of which denounce “unbelievers.” One notable verse that aired October 9 praised martyrdom.

Since the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began, the channel has been showing official, Saudi government-controlled Wahhabi sermons from Mecca’s holiest mosque, Al-Haram. The sermons stream live via Saudi TV Channel one every day at 4 p.m., and Bridges TV adds its own English subtitles. An anti-Jewish, anti-Christian sermon from October 5 included the call, “May God destroy them!”

Hmm, yes, how moderate…

“Western countries called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to halt floggings and amputations, allow religious freedom and abolish a system of male guardianship sharply limiting women’s rights.”

(…) Zaid Al-Hussein, vice president of the state-affiliated Saudi Human Rights Commission, told the forum much remained to be done to ensure that individual followers of Islam uphold human rights standards, as required by sharia law.

(…) Hussein said non-Muslims could follow their faiths in private in the kingdom, but it would be difficult to allow non-Muslim houses of worship as “Islam is the final religion“.

This expression is absolutely final about what we’re dealing here. Some days ago, Saudi blogger Hamoud

Bin Saleh has been arrested because he announced his conversion to Christianity in his blog Saudi Christian, which was also blocked:

Based on information obtained by ANHRI, the Saudi authorities jailed the young blogger at the infamous Eleisha political prison in Riyadh; a prison which in 2004 witnessed the arrest of the reformists Matrouk el Falih, Ali el Domini and Eissa al Hamed.