Please sign this to prevent a man being executed for voicing his opinion...

[Trollheart]

I got this email today and it ****ing shocked me, though why I don't know; we should sadly expect this sort of thing from Saudi Arabia now. But does a man deserve to die for "insulting Islam" by writing a blog?

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/free_rai...YKfhfb&v=54782

[DwnWthVwls]

I'm not clicking a link you got in an email about saving someone.. Virus spreader.

[Cuthbert]

He might have got it from someone he knows maybe.

But yeah... will wait for a news story now lol.

[Plankton]

But it says "Secure" in the link. That means it's good for you.

Edit: It's actually a legitimate link for petitioning. Not sure of the validity of the claim though.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/

[Cuthbert]

On 17 June 2012, he was arrested on a charge of insulting Islam through electronic channels, and in December of that year was also cited for apostasy, a conviction which carries an automatic death sentence.

In May 2014 it was reported that Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1000 lashes, as well as being ordered to pay a fine of 1 million riyals, for "insulting Islam".

On March 1, 2015, Badawi's wife told reporters that judges in Saudi Arabia's criminal court want to retry him for apostasy. If found guilty, he would be sentenced to death.

From Wiki.

[John Wilkes Booth]

i don't doubt the source but honestly i can't imagine me giving out my email to some random webstie is going to save this guys life

best of luck to him though

[RoxyRollah]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

I'm not clicking a link you got in an email about saving someone.. Virus spreader.

[Trollheart]

This isn't some random email guys. I have an account with Avaaz and they send me these stories. They're all about highlighting injustices in the world. Most of the time I don't bother reading them but this one struck a chord. It's genuine. If you're afraid they'll harvest your email, I really don't think they will but if they did well so what? You get spam from other sources (cough) porn websites (cough) and you're reluctant to click this one, which is a lot more important than enlarging your penis! (Waits for the Batty joke)...

Seriously: I'm not saying you have to click it but ffs: not to help maybe save someone's life? Are yaz that shallow? Really? I'd like to think that if I were in a similar situation I could rely on (waits for Batty again)...

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

i don't doubt the source but honestly i can't imagine me giving out my email to some random webstie is going to save this guys life

best of luck to him though

It's about signing their petition, which will then be handed to the German ambassador or someone (don't ask me why Germany, who knows?); the point is you register and then that signs the petition, which strengthens the guy's case. You should at least read it.

[John Wilkes Booth]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

It's about signing their petition, which will then be handed to the German ambassador or someone (don't ask me why Germany, who knows?); the point is you register and then that signs the petition, which strengthens the guy's case. You should at least read it.

i feel sorta bad now that i vocalized the fact that i'm not gonna sign it. perhaps i should've kept that to myself. i understand it's a petition but basically my rationale is that there's always a chance that i'll get inadvertently put on some spam list by giving my email over and even though that's a pretty petty and insignificant risk, it's enough to deter me from taking on the minor hassle of going through the motions of signing it knowing that in all likelihood my signature is not going to make or break this petition and thus it really makes no practical difference if i sign it or not. it would be more of a symbolic gesture that would only affect me insomuch as i bought into the symbolic significance... which unfortunately doesn't do much for me

you might respond that if everyone thought this way then that would make an actual difference, which is true, but in any case it doesn't matter since my decision to sign or not sign won't be likely to have any or much affect on the likelihood of others to sign. so statistically i really have no incentive to do so.