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Saudi Arabia

Our Sharia Is Different from Their Sharia

Charles Oliver | 12.7.2015 6:00 AM

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The Saudi justice ministry says it will sue a Twitter user who called the death sentence handed down by a Saudi court for apostasy "ISIS like." The court sentenced poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for abandoning his Muslim faith. The justice ministry says it will not stand for any slander of the county's "judicial system based on Islamic law."

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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