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mathetes User ID: 514914 United States 11/11/2008 11:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wow. 1500 lashings. Quoting: markusmaximuswhat does everyone think of this? does this "rehabilitate" the man, or simply abuse him physically and mentally for the sake of punishment? Our friends the Saudis El-Arabi is in a jail in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah and is believed to have received at least one of his weekly installments of 70 lashes so far. They have an installment plan For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
Lastcall User ID: 543105 United States 11/12/2008 12:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Awwwww a poor little princess with nothing to do got hooked on drugs It must have been the doctors fault !!!!!!! GIVE HIM 700 lashes ! Oh wait, he claims hes innocent ? THEN GIVE HIM 1500 LASHES ! (Next month) Awwww a poor little Prince with nothing to do , wants his doctor to prescribe him cocaine. What ! the doctor refuses to give a Prince a prescription ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? GIVE HIM 2000 LASHES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He can share a cell with that other doctor. |
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message in a bottle User ID: 547371 United States 11/12/2008 06:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nov. 11: Egyptian doctors and activists comfort Amin Arabi, the father of doctor Raouf Arabi who was sentenced by a Saudi court to 15-years in prison. Quoting: Change 153814CAIRO, Egypt — Demonstrators in Cairo demanded Tuesday that Saudi Arabia release an Egyptian doctor sentenced to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes after he was convicted of malpractice — reportedly after treating a Saudi princess. His wife said she feared the punishment would kill him. Raouf Amin el-Arabi, a doctor who has been serving the Saudi royal family for about 20 years, was convicted last year of giving a patient the wrong medication. Egyptian newspapers reported that he was accused of driving a Saudi princess "to addiction." He initially was sentenced to seven years in prison and 700 lashes, but when he appealed two months ago, the judge not only upheld the conviction, but more than doubled the penalty to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes. Family members, friends and colleagues gathered at the headquarters of Egypt's doctors' union in downtown Cairo and urged Saudi King Abdullah to pardon el-Arabi. "My children want their father to return swiftly and safely," the doctor's wife Fathiya el-Hindawi told the Associated Press. "I hope the king will give them back their smiles." She maintained her 53-year-old husband was innocent and feared he would die if given the full penalty. "1,500 lashes is unprecedented in the history of Islam," read one banners carried by protesters. "Who is responsible for the humiliation of our doctors abroad?" read another. The case has drawn nationwide criticism in Egypt and local human rights groups have demanded that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who maintains close ties with the Saudi royal family, intervene to free el-Arabi. The Saudi government has refrained from comment but Egyptian newspapers report that el-Arabi was treating a female member of the royal family when he was accused of "driving a patient to addiction." The newspapers identified the princess as one of the wives of Abdullah's nephews. Saudi Justice Ministry officials did not answer the phone on Tuesday to comment on the case. Egypt's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that diplomatic and political efforts are under way to resolve the problem, but warned that relations between the two countries should not be affected. "The ministry is very much concerned with this case," said Ahmed Rizq, a ministry official, in a statement. "However, the Saudi judicial and political system should be respected." Egypt's state-owned Middle East News Agency later reported that Cairo's ambassador to Riyadh, Mahmoud Auf, met with the powerful mayor of Riyadh, Prince Salman, to discuss "the status of Egyptian expatriates in the kingdom." El-Arabi is in a jail in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah and is believed to have received at least one of his weekly installments of 70 lashes so far. [link to www.foxnews.com] |
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FAR User ID: 412806 United Kingdom 11/12/2008 06:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wht about shrub intervening - as shrub is a close buddy of the saudis. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 497054but of course he won't. there is no oil in egypt. just pyramids. and camels. and date trees. Aye the Egyptians only good export are their highly qualified doctors (my doctor is Egyptian), engineers and scientists. They call it brain drain. Now the saudis want to drain blood from one of them. Read - for thy sustainer is the most bountiful one, who has taught the use of the pen, taught man what he did not know! Nay verily man becomes grossly overweening, whenever he believes himself to be self-sufficient: for behold unto thy sustainer all must return. Quran 96:3-8 [link to www.islamicity.com] __________ "Investors must look at this situation as a portfolio opportunity. If you have some extra land (condo developers and house flippers, listen closely), grow a vegetable garden, if you are ambitious, raise some sheep and cows, they will come in handy". __________ How we got here: [link to www.hundredyearlie.com] Cure: [link to www.youtube.com] __________ Plasma aliens: [link to www.plasmametaphysics.com] __________ Were your ancestors pedophiles? [link to www.youtube.com] __________ [link to www.terrorism-illuminati.com] |
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