Steven Pinker Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: b. September 18, 1954
Birthday: September 18
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from his native Eritrea, which the police interpreted as occult symbols. He was lashed three hundred times and imprisoned for more than three years.
source: "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Book by Steven Pinker, October 4, 2011.
topic: Country, Book, Character, Eritrea
