{"id":1530,"date":"2008-02-20T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/freeze-its-the-vice-squad-part-3-the-saudi-arabian-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:01:00","slug":"freeze-its-the-vice-squad-part-3-the-saudi-arabian-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/freeze-its-the-vice-squad-part-3-the-saudi-arabian-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze!  It&#8217;s the Vice Squad!  Part 3:  The Saudi Arabian Edition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>On February 13, 2008 the organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Watch<\/a> sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2008\/02\/13\/saudia18046.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to King Abdullah bin Abd al-&lsquo;Aziz Al Saud on behalf of Fawza Falih, who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the alleged crimes of &ldquo;witchcraft, recourse to jinn, and slaughter of animals&rdquo;.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>The letter highlights in aggravating detail the gaping flaws in the Saudi Arabian justice system.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It starts with her being held in detention at the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for &ldquo;witchcraft&rdquo;.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Does this mean Saudi Arabia has their own Vice Squad?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>You know, like <a href=\"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/freeze_its_the_vice_squad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/freeze_its_the_vice_squad_part.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>What did this wily &ldquo;witch&rdquo; do?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>According to my pals with the Vice Squad a man allegedly became impotent after being &ldquo;bewitched&rdquo; and a divorced woman (Can there be divorced women in Iran?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>With the way the Vice guys are going I just assumed they wouldn&rsquo;t allow divorces anymore.) reportedly returned to her ex-husband during the month predicted by the witch said to have cast the spell.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Misery loves company.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2008\/02\/13\/saudia18046.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> so you can feel my pain.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I&rsquo;ve got to say, Christoph Wilcke, the letter&rsquo;s author, has laid out a rational argument for a pardon for Fawza Falih.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Let&rsquo;s hope it helps.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 13, 2008 the organization Human Rights Watch sent a letter to King Abdullah bin Abd al-&lsquo;Aziz Al Saud on behalf of Fawza Falih, who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the alleged crimes of &ldquo;witchcraft, recourse to jinn, and slaughter of animals&rdquo;.&nbsp;The letter highlights in aggravating detail the gaping flaws in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/freeze-its-the-vice-squad-part-3-the-saudi-arabian-edition\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeze!  It&#8217;s the Vice Squad!  Part 3:  The Saudi Arabian Edition.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}