RIYADH, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A senior Saudi cleric has said purveyors of horoscopes on Arab television should face the death penalty, a paper said on Sunday, days after another cleric argued death for TV owners.
"Sorcerers who appear on satellite channels who are proven to be sorcerers have committed a great crime ... and the Muslim consensus is that the apostate's punishment is death by the sword," Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan told al-Madina daily.
"Those who call in to these shows should not be accorded Muslim rites when they die," the prominent cleric added.
In their capacity as judges, clerics of Saudi Arabia's austere form of Islam often sentence "sorcerers" to death.
You could easily re-write the last sentence to read thusly, and still be correct:
In their capacity as judges, republicans of the USA's austere form of conservatism often sentence "liberals" to death.
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