So...if those that attacked in Paris aren't "real" muslims, and KKK isn't "real" christians

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9. But Saudi lashings are LIBERAL, you troublemaker!

Those lashings of "1000 lashes" are usually given on the installment plan - maybe 100 lashes this weekend, 100 more the next weekend, etc.

ETA - Also, a DOCTOR attends the lashings! So there! And that punishment of cutting off a thief's hand? They still do that, but the amputation takes place in a HOSPITAL!

And don't worry if you get the supreme penalty, either. The Saudi Official Excutioner is a very big guy who's guaranteed to remove your head in one clean stroke.

One of the most interesting Saudi legal penalties is the one for highway robbery - crucifixion.

I know all that because I lived in The Magic Kingdom for 2 years. And "sentenced to lashing etc." stories often appeared in the English-language newspaper, the Saudi Gazette.

Pour encouragement les autres, etc. Make sure the foreigners know what will happen if they screw up in our lovely country. Even though the Saudis often turn a blind eye to furriners, unless they do something really egregious.

One of the most famous stories involved a British man who got caught drunk and in possession of home-made alcohol. IIRC, there was such an uproar over lashing a foreigner that the Saudis reduced the number of lashes, then finally commuted the rest of the "sentence" after 20 or 30 lashes.

Useless trivia - in Saudi Arabia, home-made booze is called "saddiqi" - Arabic for "my friend."