Middle East Focus: Silly Wahhabi Potentates Still Pondering Fate of Lebanese Magician, Oz and Dylan and Potter Targeted?..…….

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Silly Wahhabi Potentates Still Pondering Fate of Lebanese Magician, Oz and Dylan and Potter Targeted?..…….

“The death sentence for Ali Sibat, a TV presenter arrested in May 2008 for engaging in sorcery while on a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, will probably be lifted soon, May Khansa said, citing Lebanese Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar. "We do not have anything official. It seems they are going to cancel the sentence," Khansa told AFP by telephone from Beirut. She said she spoke with Najjar after he discussed the case earlier with the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon. "He promised there would be good news," she said. "He promised that things are going to be fine." Sibat does not have a lawyer in Saudi Arabia, and Khansa is acting as a legal advisor to him and his family back in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic law allows the death sentence for performing magic, sorcery and similar actions, considering them a heretical act. Sibat, a father of five who was known for making predictions on Lebanese television programmes that were broadcast by satellite into Saudi Arabia, says he was entrapped while on an umrah minor pilgrimage, according to Khansa. While he was in Medina someone working undercover for the Saudi religious police hired him to perform some sorcery-like acts and he was then arrested, she explained.………..”

Enough already with this poor man left dangling in a Saudi prison while the impotent potentates and decrepit Wahhabi shaikhs pondering his fate. These royal schmucks would probably behead Bob Dylan for singing about the “Magic Dragon” so many years ago, without realizing the “lofty” stuff he was singing about. Why, they’d behead whoever produced, acted in, distributed or showed “The Wizard of Oz”, “The Harry Potter series”, and a bunch of the “1001 Nights” stories.

These worthless worthies should just get on with it and let the poor man go home. Get a life, your royal highnesses, and stop worrying about some Lebanese practicing magic in his own country. After all, you all may have had some “magical” moments in your gluttonous and greedy lives so long ago, at least on your first wedding, if not on the second, and third, and fourth, and..……
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