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To: Bill who wrote (713559)11/16/2005 3:46:32 PM
From: paret  Respond to of 769670
 
Water, juice. No soft drinks.



To: Bill who wrote (713559)11/16/2005 4:07:13 PM
From: paret  Respond to of 769670
 
I am sure Condi Rice and the US State Dept will get right on this:

Saudi court: 750 lashes for praising Jews
YNet ^ | Nov. 15, 2005

Teacher sentenced to 40 months in jail and 750 lashes for praising Jews; 'suspect' will be flogged in public

A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a teacher to 40 months in jail and 750 lashes for "mocking religion" after he discussed the Bible and praised Jews, a Saudi newspaper reported Sunday.

Al-Madina newspaper said secondary school teacher Mohammad al-Harbi will be flogged in public after he was taken to court by his colleagues and students.

He was charged with promoting a "dubious ideology, mocking religion, saying the Jews were right, discussing the gospel and preventing students from leaving class to wash for prayer", the newspaper said. It gave no more details.

Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, strictly upholds the austere Wahhabi school of Islam and bases its constitution on the Koran and the sayings of Islam's prophet, Mohammad.

Public practice of any other religion is illegal in Saudi Arabia.

A U.S. State Department report criticised Saudi Arabia last week, saying religious freedoms "are denied to all but those who adhere to the state-sanctioned version of Sunni Islam".

The newspaper said al-Harbi will appeal against the verdict.



To: Bill who wrote (713559)11/16/2005 4:28:52 PM
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Bill Clinton Calls Iraq 'Big Mistake'
Americans call Bill Clinton a 'Bigger Mistake.'



To: Bill who wrote (713559)11/16/2005 4:45:49 PM
From: paret  Respond to of 769670
 
SOROS would be proud:
Philly Kindergartner Found With Heroin
Nov 16, 2005

PHILADELPHIA
breitbart.com

A kindergarten teacher found eight bags of heroin in a 5-year-old student's pocket, police said.

The matter was under investigation and the boy's mother could be charged, police Inspector William Colarulo said.

The heroin was discovered Oct. 25. On Tuesday, the school sent a letter home to parents. The letter did not explain why the school waited three weeks to tell parents. It was sent home after a story about the incident aired on WCAU-TV.

Neither the child nor his classmates at Richmond Elementary School were harmed, a schools spokesman said.

"We are shocked and saddened, outraged" that a parent or parents could place a child in such danger, said spokesman Fernando Galliard.

The boy and his three siblings have been turned over to the city's Department of Human Services and placed in temporary custody, spokesman Ted Qualli said. The agency was looking for relatives who could eventually take care of the children.