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SAUDI ARABIA: PARDON PUSHES ASIAN KILLER TO ISLAM
December 5, 2014: Arar newspaper said a Sri Lankan man on the death row converted to Islam after he was pardoned by the father of a young Saudi man run over by the expatriate in Saudi Arabia.
The Buddhist driver had been ordered to pay 300,000 ryals (about 80,000 USD) for Diya (blood money) to the victim’s relatives in return for a pardon but he could not afford it.
“The father went to court and pardoned the man without the need to pay diya… When he was released, the Sri Lankan decided to convert to Islam,” Arar newspaper said in a report from the town of Qurayyat. (Sources: emirates247.com, 05/12/2014)
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