Terrorists Behead U.S. Hostage in Saudi Arabia

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WTF is it with radical muslims and decapitating people?
Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks.(Qur'an sura 47, verse 4)


And no that isn't me just making up my own context, it has been used in Islamic jurispondence to justify beheading for hundreds of years. It is almost a ritual killing; brought to you by the religion of peace.
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Goddamnit. I heard the Saudis got one of the captors, though.
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AQ leader in KSA got his due.

This is all fucking sick. Beheading a person is just ... wrong in this day and age. The people that do these things are really sick [and, if the BBC report is true, full of lead].
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Islam is a religion of peace, even though the Qur'an would have any reasonable person conclude otherwise.
If Islam is a religion of peace, but by reading their holy text any reasonable person would conclude the opposite, how is it a religion of peace? Just because they say so? :roll:
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nimetski wrote:
Islam is a religion of peace, even though the Qur'an would have any reasonable person conclude otherwise.
If Islam is a religion of peace, but by reading their holy text any reasonable person would conclude the opposite, how is it a religion of peace? Just because they say so? :roll:
Didn't you hear the Prime Minister and the media? Islam is a religion that teaches tollerance and respect. It must be a religion of peace, regardless of what actions dictate not just abroad, but in the UK.
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I find it curious that the KSA security forces managed to "find" the guy
so fast after they beheaded him. I know their "official" explanation is
that someone saw the license plate of the car they dumped the guy's
body out of and tracked it down.....
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MKSheppard wrote:I find it curious that the KSA security forces managed to "find" the guy
so fast after they beheaded him.
Typo, change "guy" to "them."
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Intahresting....

As of about 1400EST the Saudis are now saying they have NOT
recovered his body. So how'd they get the "Tip" from someone
who saw the body being dumped, and YET not find the body?

Something is rotten in the KSA
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Durandal wrote:You're being a religious bigot. Islam is a religion of peace, even though the Qur'an would have any reasonable person conclude otherwise.
Please accept my apologies. To show my remorsefulness, I shall sever the two hands used to type previous blasphemy.
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MKSheppard wrote:Something is rotten in the KSA
No, everything is rotten in the KSA...
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nimetski wrote:If Islam is a religion of peace, but by reading their holy text any reasonable person would conclude the opposite, how is it a religion of peace? Just because they say so? :roll:
No, because President Bush says so and he's always right about these things.
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Knife wrote:Ah damn. Guess we're still paying the piper for all those Iraqis being photographed naked and a bag on their head. That'll show us. :roll:


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Nuking the entire Middle East, until the rubble glows sounds even more appealing. And I'm being totally serious.
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Gil Hamilton wrote:
nimetski wrote:If Islam is a religion of peace, but by reading their holy text any reasonable person would conclude the opposite, how is it a religion of peace? Just because they say so? :roll:
No, because President Bush says so and he's always right about these things.
You realize that they say this to avoid a public witch hunt for people of Islamic faith.

If they said "Islam is a barbaric religion" how do you think the idiots would choose to handle that?
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Kamakazie Sith wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:
nimetski wrote:If Islam is a religion of peace, but by reading their holy text any reasonable person would conclude the opposite, how is it a religion of peace? Just because they say so? :roll:
No, because President Bush says so and he's always right about these things.
You realize that they say this to avoid a public witch hunt for people of Islamic faith.

If they said "Islam is a barbaric religion" how do you think the idiots would choose to handle that?
Frankly, given the behaviour and attitudes of the majority of non-Western Muslims, I think that it wouldn't matter one damn bit. A good many of them hate us and wish us harm, and all to many of them are setting out to do. Call a spade a spade. The fundamentalists Muslims are barbarians.
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How can they hate us anymore than they do now? Are we scared of making them madder? Is a mild temper flying planes into skyscrapers and beheading our expatriates? What do they do when they're really peeved? Suit up with SEMTEX and rush our embassies?
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In a hypothetical situation, how much public outcry would there have been if the Saudi's had said that if the american was killed then they would kill all the prisoners AQ wanted released, and then carried it out?
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nimetski wrote:
Islam is a religion of peace, even though the Qur'an would have any reasonable person conclude otherwise.
If Islam is a religion of peace, but by reading their holy text any reasonable person would conclude the opposite, how is it a religion of peace? Just because they say so? :roll:
I was being sarcastic. Islam is a fundamentally violent and brutal religion, just like Christianity and Judaism.
ALI_G wrote:Didn't you hear the Prime Minister and the media? Islam is a religion that teaches tollerance and respect.


Right ... just not toward women or unbelievers.
It must be a religion of peace, regardless of what actions dictate not just abroad, but in the UK.
Yes, regardless of how many times the Qur'an tells Muslims to fight and die for Allah.
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