As a student of religion and since Saudi Arabia runs half and half of Sharia Law (God's Law according to Muslims), Sorcery is considered a very evil practice and not just in Islam but in other major religons as well.

I could explain this further but it would a thousand years and I unfortunately don't have the life span but thanks for bringing it up anyway Matt. You have interesting blogs.

Jihan,

OK- maybe what he did is immoral from a theist's  perspective. (I personally could care less about 'sorcery,' though I admit it'd be cool if I could conjure up fireballs in my hands) But wouldn't you agree it's clearly illegitimate and immoral for Saudi Arabia to execute a non-violent person?

From a secular point of view-yes. From a Sharia point of view, since I am almost sure that it is capital punishment-no. It's in the Quran and for good reasons it is considered harmful.  A lot of people have been injured or hurt from socery and black magic-including my uncle. He was almost killed. I have a few friends and many family memebers who were injured by that stuff. It sounds kinda funny (even for myself) but you actually have to experience those things or be in those places to undertsand what I am talking about. It's prevelant overseas, esp in those countries. Of course, in Sharia there are also a regulations of how to set up trials and how witnesses can participate. If the police stormed into his house and arrested him without any evidence (which a lot of time they do) and it was a hearsay thing, then I completely disgaree with it.  Don't get me wrong, I do see a lot of flaws within the Saudi governemnt and how at times they don't  recognize the most minimal civil liberties(freedom of religion for one). However, many people do use it for harmful/unjust reasons, otherwise why use it? That's what many people do anyway, and if he meant to hurt someone then he deserves what he gets. This is why I am remaining neutral in this case, because we do not know what he tried to do exactly.

Oh ok, my bad. I thought he was using black magic since socery is considered the usage of black magic to hurt someone. I was unaware of the entire situation. However, my opinion regards as the same if someone uses these kinds of things to hurt other people-from a Muslim perspective.

Not to be a downer, Jihan, but there's no such thing as black magic.  Or white magic.  Or any kind of "magic;" if someone is being poisoned, shot, stabbed, or beaten, they are victims of a crime.  Wishing someone ill is not a crime--to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, it neither picks their pocket nor breaks their leg.  

No amount of Salem witchcraft-trial nonsense ("I swear! The milk curdled when she came in the room!") can change the fact that you're defending a state that's about to kill a man for speaking.  Not for shooting, stabbing, robbing, raping, beating, cheating, or having sex with a farm animal--just speaking.  That's deplorable.  And if you try and defend this deplorable act by hiding behind religion (any religion), that's both deplorable and insulting to people who share that religion.

It is all just the primitive superstitions of backwards, ignorant savages. Let them rot in it.