Us print types generally consider ourselves to be superior to TV. We actually have to write stuff that takes longer than 30 seconds to read. But every now and then you see a master of the media electronique at work who is a true artiste, a virtuoso of the blah-blah-blah. Like this guy:
Reporter: "This is the most renowned executioner in Saudi Arabia, Abdallah Bin Sa'id Al-Bishi, who carries out the executions. His sword delineates the border between seriousness and play. There is no negotiating with him once the heads have ripened. When it's harvesting time, he is the most suited for the job."
Abdallah Al-Bishi: "I started to work in this field after the death of my father - about a week or 10 days after his death, in 1412 [1991-92]. I was surprised that the people who supervise this field summoned me, saying I had a mission. Allah be praised. Of course, I did not have swords or anything back then, but I used the swords of my father, may he rest in peace, and carried out the execution. My first mission was to execute three people."
Reporter: "Abu Bader's swords have cut off a hundred heads and more. His eldest son, Badr, is training in the same profession. He inherited this profession from his father, Sa'id Al-Bishi. He remembers how, when still a small boy, he accompanied him to the beheading of a criminal in Mecca. That sight, Abu Badr says, was the turning point in his life."
Read the whole thing.
LGF has the vid.
Saturday, December 2, 2006
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And people really don't understand why we have a problem with Muslim countries.
I know a man who works a few months out of the year training Saudi security services. He actually witnessed a couple of beheadings, and a judicial hand amputation (meted out as a penalty for theft). Pretty gruesome stuff. He said it appeared that they had doped the capital cases with hashish or something.
They're still living in the seventh century. And apparently will never leave it.
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