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The Emirates likes to pretend it's civilized, just on their own principles - but shit like this can't hide the fact that they're just ignorant fucking dickheads:

Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft 6:55 AM ET

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.

Some illiterate woman is going to be executed because... she's a witch. Sure there are plenty of places with stone-age superstitions. Just recently an Eastern European country locked up a priest who had killed a nun through exorcism. But the Saudis like to put on the appearance of tolerance, education and human-rights. Yeah, really, they're just "misunderstood".

In Falih's case, the judges relied on a coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had ''bewitched'' them to convict her in April 2006, according to the group.

Falih later retracted her confession in court, claiming it was extracted under duress, and said that as an illiterate woman, she did not understand the document she was forced to fingerprint.

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The Saudi court cited an instance in which a man allegedly became impotent after being bewitched by Falih, the rights group said.

An appeals court ruled in September 2006 that Falih could not be sentenced to death for witchcraft because she had retracted her confession. But a lower court subsequently reissued the death sentence for the benefit of ''public interest'' and to ''protect the creed, souls and property of this country,'' the group's statement said.

So some guy lost his hardon and she has to die because of that.

Just goes to show, money can't buy intelligence or common sense.