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Forget 1,000 lashes for Facebook posts, Saudis now want to behead blogger Raif Badawi

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Re: 7th century...

"If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them."

Caliph Omar Bar-Hebraeus ordering the destruction of the Library at Alexandria.

Good at sums maybe, perhaps not so enlightened.

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