Uncle beheads toddler

[Timone]

Fortunately there are no pics.

A MAN beheaded his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in a supermarket in Saudi Arabia apparently after a family dispute, newspapers reported.

The 25-year-old Syrian national picked up a knife from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah yesterday and decapitated the little boy in full view of shoppers, Arab News said.

The man apparently killed the little boy following a dispute with the man's sister and brother-in-law, the English-language daily said.

"He chopped off the boy's head in front of the mother to get back at her," a police officer was quoted as saying. The mother fainted and was taken to hospital.

Murder is punishable by death in ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, where the death sentence is usually carried out by beheading.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...-23109,00.html

[Glenn]

I wish I had never clicked on this thread.

[Uncle Mxy]

Shit like this happens in the U.S. too -- kids die in the middle of an argument between relatives. But I'm sure this will be peddled as another sign that Muslims are weird and evil.

[WTFchris]

At least there should be the eye for an eye method in this case. The problem is that he clearly doesn't value life, which makes his own killing less of a punishment.

[Timone]

I wish I had never clicked on this thread.

You didn't have to click on this thread to know what it was about.

[Glenn]

I'm not blaming you, I made a mistake.

Personal responsibility, holmes.

[geerussell]

Barbaric. He couldn't just bust a cap like civilized people.

[Timone]

I wonder what this dispute was about.

[Big Swami]

Ah, you know how it is these days in Saudi Arabia. You can't even behead a child at the grocery store anymore without some busybody calling Child Services on you.

[-NoQuarter-]

Shit like this happens in the U.S. too -- kids die in the middle of an argument between relatives. But I'm sure this will be peddled as another sign that Muslims are weird and evil.

...taking "tolerance" of other cultures a bit far, are we?