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US Ally Saudi Arabia Lashes Blogger 1000 Times For "Islam Insult"
Having topped the charts for beheadings in 2014, and enforced gender segregation, US ally Saudi Arabia has decided that free-speech is 'practically' punishable by death. During a week when 'free speech' is being defended by every Western nation desparate to condemn the terrorist acts against France's satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, it is therefore quite stunning that, as The BBC reports, Raif Badawi - a Saudi Arabian blogger - was sentenced to 1,000 lashes (carried out over 50 weekly floggings), and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam. With 'friends' like this, who needs enemies?
A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, reports say.
Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.
Mr Badawi, the co-founder of a now banned website called the Liberal Saudi Network, was arrested in 2012.
In addition to his sentence, Mr Badawi was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million riyals ($266,000; £175,000).
In 2013 he was cleared of apostasy, which could have carried a death sentence.
Last year Mr Badawi's lawyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of a range of offences in an anti-terrorism court, the Associated Press news agency reported.
The flogging took place outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after Friday prayers, witnesses said.
AFP news agency, quoting people at the scene, said Mr Badawi arrived at the mosque in a police car and had the charges read out to him in front of a crowd.
He was then made to stand with his back to onlookers and whipped, though he remained silent, the witnesses said.
The sentence was widely condemned by human rights groups.
"The flogging of Raif Badawi is a vicious act of cruelty which is prohibited under international law," said Said Boumedouha of Amnesty International.
"By ignoring international calls to cancel the flogging Saudi Arabia's authorities have demonstrated an abhorrent disregard for the most basic human rights principles."
Saudi Arabia enforces a strict version of Islamic law and does not tolerate political dissent. It has some of the highest social media usage rates in the region, and has cracked down on domestic online criticism, imposing harsh punishments.
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Rights groups condemned his conviction and the US appealed for clemency...
On
Thursday state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki urged the Saudi
authorities to "cancel this brutal punishment" and to review his case.
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Still as long the Saudis keep pressure on Russia (oops and The US Shale industry) and keep bombing Syria, what's a flogging or behading here or there between friends?
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Thursday state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki urged the Saudi
authorities to "cancel this brutal punishment" and to review his case.
Well, it was not as if he was selling individual cigarettes or something, she commented.
Only a thousand.....wait till commenters here get punished
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?!?"
50 lashes? In the old Royal Navy that would have killed a man. In Malaysia the bamboo canes they use could kill a man with even 10 lashes.
What are they whipping him with, shoelaces?
Michael Fay plus Donahue equals good daytime TV. One day this new guy will be on the idiot box with Anderson Cooper or some other douchebag. Cooper will appear sympathetic but a tad distant...like he just ran over a baby grizzly bear and knows the mamma is in the bush.
Over 50 weeks, surely 20 at a time??
He still has his head.
Count your blessings where you can find them.
Religion is something of a virulent disease to humanity. It actively tries to turn the working class against itself, it openly advocates the discrimination of women, LGBT people and non-believers, and it has a profound regressive effect on education and social progress.
At least he mowed his lawn, otherwise a Beheading would be in order by our close Ally.
Is Muhammad such a candy ass that he can't handle a little insult now and then? Seriously, the more I hear of this religion of peace, the more I think that their prophet can't even withstand a little investigation. And if people pull back the veil, they might find there is nothing but nothing to Muhammad...
US ally Great Britain still flogged ( or birched ) sailors as late as 1936.
@SumTingWong: Just because we are being spoon-fed a narrative by mainstream media does not mean it is even partly true, whether the topic at hand is corporate marketing, international banking, state-sponsored terrorism or changing weather cycles. Too many sleazy individuals and groups are spending vast fortunes on think tanks with an explicit agenda to find new and improved ways to manipulate the masses. Protection of your mind requires study of the tools and purveyors of propaganda (example). Mature interpretation of current affairs requires a better explanation than "The gobble-uns'll getcha ef you don't watch out." Who pulls the strings of the gobble-uns? Why does the hand of the state behave foolishly? Why is the public shielded from essential details and even threatened for asking important questions?
We know less about this event than we do about the real story behind last week's staged "Je Suis Charlie" bullshit. All we know is that authorities have a rolodex of bogeymen, flip through them every few weeks, and since the black card is a little tired, the latest ot be ramped up is "Muslim Extremism." One can usually pick out reasons for the timing. For example, relations with the Saudi Royals appear to be breaking down lately. Why hasn't this kind of thing gotten more attention over the last few decades of Saudi-US 'friendship?'
With allies like this, who needs enemies?
Race, Religion, Country.
The three key concepts to keep the sheople fighting each other instead of going after the controlling psychopaths.
Works every time.
Time to wake the fuck up.
Those "psychopaths" are not psychopaths at all, to the contrary they know exactly what they are doing and love to be called psychopaths/madmen/illuminati because it is not a correct description, hence it works as a proper diversion of energy away from the root cause. Their modus operandi is to use emotional hot buttons on all of these three issues to further their agenda: pit races, religions and countries against each other. Always brother against brother, every single time.
This issue has little to do with religion however. At thec core it has everything to do with survival, power and politics. Islam is a useful ideological tool for the government of Saudi Arabia, but it does not need it, as long as the US military backs them up and stifles any dissent, foreign or domestic.
The reference to religious insult also fits into the "tolerance" narrative of much of corporate media, i.e. "tolerate" (accept) things you do not like because you must "tolerate" (accept) = a tautology (standard logical fallacy built on appeal to emotions).
As always, key question must be, who benefits from this and who pays. And, what would it cost to actually move the chess pieces on the board to a substantial extent.
A safe bet is, that if you just criticise the government there without any reference to religion, you would probably be charged with insulting Islam as well. "God lives on earth, they say, and I am his representative, bow before me." - That old trick seems to work every single time.
They are organized, manipulative psychopaths, and this system is their playground. First-hand experience may enable victims to see it more clearly, but DYODD:
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work
If Race, Religion and Country is the problem, then Multicultural Secular Globalism must be the solution. Or your logic could have been influenced by the globalist meme and not even now it.
Your comment betrays the fact that the ingroup-outgroup force is strong with you.
The solution is voluntary interaction, not the continual manipulation, violence, and servitude from government through an endless manufacturing of enemies.
Of which you fall for.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me unendingly, I'm hard-wired like Harbanger.
One of the 99% who are dupes.
Can't we just nuke these medieval fuckers and put them out of their misery? (And steal the oil, fair and square.)
Nuking someone and stealing their oil just doesn't have the "fair and square" ring to it. However, considering you are from SF, I will assume various sordid influences has skewed your judgement.
Miffed
only two of the three are state sponsored. that makes a world of difference, and you should acknowledge that fact.
What's that liberal feminist socialist bullshit ?
In the West hetero peoples are ostracized by the government.
Feminism killed masculinity and the right of men.
A women can imprison you with a false rape accusation, can make you a slave by divorcing you, taking half of your shit and a child support.
If you lose your job and can't pay you Child support you go to prison.
The education system favors female mind so now more than 80% of drop out are male.
More than 60-70% of college student are now female (wonder now why it's totally fucked up).
Any male sexuality is shamed or deemed creep while female one is empowerment.
And so on.
So Fuck you mangina.
Ask me what it's like to be a dude going into court fighting for custody of his daughter.
Go ahead, ask me.
Here's a hint: the title of this article had something to do with 1000 lashes.
Oh yeah: the mother is a complete sociopath who belongs in a straight jacket in a room with rubber walls.
And yet, I, the dad, an Annapolis grad, winged Navy pilot, with a squeaky clean record, still didn't stand a bloody chance.
I went through that same fucked system 20 years ago. Best of luck keeping your daughter from becoming another fucked in the head statistic. You are going to need all of it!
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That's the easy way out. Portray religion as the boogey man and all we need to do is defeat religion and then utopia will finally arrive. What if the truth is that it's us? What if it's one long chain of good causes that mutate into an excuse to oppress? What if we're the problem, if this is our nature then how will you fix that?
He's still in Saudi Arabia and will be for at least ten more years. Where's the blessing?
Yes.
wet noodles
wet noodles
lucky for him he didn't live in Germany or Canada and began to make public facts that contradict the holocaust story.
It is amazing how supposed freedom supporting western gubbiments overlook human rights when the regime has something valuable to offer.
Ok so what did he say? Just so I know what NOT to say when taking a vacation in SA. Or are we not allowed to know and that thing called free speech is illegal here as well?
I want to know what he said so I can start the "Je suis insulting Islam" campaign.
Have you ever been on the wrong end of corporal punishment?
I went through the English grammar school system in the late 60's
Managed a whole 2 days before being beaten!
It's hard to ask for another when you know you'll be having trouble sitting comfortably for a day or so.
A caning is not something you forget in a hurry.
Been there, had it too. Same era I note.
Even then the lesser "Secondary Schools" - also known as "Comprehensive" Schools, had mostly banned corporal punishment, but the Grammar School system just carried on.
I often wonder if this was 'cause the parents of those in the Comprehensive system were at the "lower end" of the social scale, and might not have taken too kindly to their kids being beaten (i.e. might have decided to take "affirmative action" against the system), whereas the parents of the Grammar school kids were (generally) part of the "Management" set, and were quite happy with the idea of violence being used to "instil obedience". Can't have independent actions, especially in the "Seen, not heard" children, can we . . . . .
He's lucky he can still wear a hat
with that hair he should
I think his eyes are just dreamy.
His photo makes me want to reach for my whip.
Not the quirt, that's only for the ladies.
Gives a new meaning to the term: "Lashing out!"
Long live the lashes!
Contrary to Obamas lies...Islam means submission not peace.
If Tyler was a Saudi citizen, the punishment for ZH site would be:
1.10k slashes (yes inflation bitchez)
2. Moar Prison
3. 0 virgins for him (that's right Deflation in that department Bitchez)
Tyler would probably be disappeared and tortured to death. Beheading would be considered too merciful for such an outspoken advocate of free speech...and ZH readers would be worried about their internet service provider's IP logs.
Leaked memo: Al Jazeera management "suggests" US newsroom consider why Paris bloodbath might be partly justifiable-
http://tinyurl.com/n7egueu
Do we really need the oil from these fucking ragheads?
Probably Mossad.
MF, just had to insert your own personal brand of hate ...
Asshole.
MF, just had to insert your own personal brand of hate ...
It's the only thing that matters to them. (Well, that and their pecker.) All their thoughts revolve around it.
Just another false flag.
Proofreder just fucking with ya cockfag!
Why don't you just stop posting? Your contribution on ZH with these comments is of zero value.
New Fag. Cock Fag. He got you.
Just another dumb comment. Why don't you just go away?
Take your pick: US CIA/ US Proxy Agent, MI-6, MI-5, Mossad, Operation Gladio Stay Behind Army of one of the European Countries... Italy says they shut theirs down.
- Operation Gladio (Italy, although working in many countries)
- Lochos Oreinon Katadromon, or LOK (Greece)
- Operation (Red) Sheepskin (Greece)[3]
- OWSGV (Austria)
- Plan Bleu, La Rose des Vents, and Arc-en-ciel (France)
- ROC (Norway)
- SDRA8 and STC/Mob (Belgium)
- Bund Deutscher Jugend – Technischer Dienst, or TD BJD (Germany)
- Özel Harp Dairesi (Turkey)
How does your non sensical list refer to the topic ?
schadenfreude; trying to control the narrative & free speech I see. You are no friend of the people. I sense Fascist-government all over you. but whatever. You can be better than this. It is almost like you are paid to judge & rip on people.
You know, God is supposed to be the only one who can judge. No matter what you learned in Enlistment or the Military...
Christians make this mistake 90% of the time. You can judge who is around your kids, you can judge who is elected to office or serves local government, you can judge who you date or marry,... but there is a limit, a point where your words put people in danger, you hurt their reputation or work life... blah blah.
But I admit when I pressed send, I knew It was a reach too far for the post. I'm just flashy that way.
=:-)
Ain't it great!!
well now the issue of who is on human rights side and who is on the side of obscurantist law will come out into the open.
Je suis Charlie puts this fair and square centerpiece in the DIALOGUE between obscurantism and rationalism; whatever the ideology that feeds each thread.
Western civilization now has to say which side of the barrier it stands.
As more than about bullets the western ideal is about VALUES.
Irony of ironies, Nettyahou has said he comes to Paris on Sunday to march with the leaders of Europe !
All the Politicians want to highjack the Street Protest Movement in France. It is sickening.
Eric Holder is going to be there too. They should have Holland Arrest him for War Crimes, and Financial Racketeering, or... Financial Terrorism.
Hamas was one of the first to condemn the act.
Fuck Saudi Arabia.
Had we anything like a sensible FP, we'd stop buying from Saudi Arabia, buy more gas and oil from Russia, and Iran, and work on regime change in Riyadh.
...then we'd turn to regime change in Tel Aviv.
OT....
Who ordered the attack against Charlie Hebdo?
What a piece of illogical crap, masquarding as fact ...
Long on opinion, short on evidence, all conjecture.
Fail
Some comedy relief here...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/10/the-undead-dead-french-cop-in-se...
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/voltairenet.org.html
After 50 years, they’ve bought the American economy
Name one president in Ameri a who didn’t drop on his knees for the Saudi’s
No way anybody dares to say or do anything
Ron Paul explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6VKD1Eg-8
Nice... now let’s see if the west dares to say anything against the owner of America who supports the killing of American citizens...
I don’t think so!
They can’t or the Saudi’s will send their dog US out for revenge!
CNN / Source: ****** cells may have been activated in France
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/10/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting/index.html
"Mr Badawi, the co-founder of a now banned website called the Liberal Saudi Network, was arrested in 2012"
I guess Amerika really does hate Liberals.
Considering the US Gov'mt basically just allowed the Saudi's to take out several hundred billion worth of shale oil and fracking investment without a whimper-and has yet to adress their role in 911-I'm not sure what all of us on ZH here thinks they're gonna do about it really?
That's because the Saudis have more Vaseline in reserve than any other country.
We gave them two World Trade Centers and 3000 American lives as well. Long overdue to bomb the shit out of their cities.
Started with letting China into the World Trade Organization. Everybody knew what Chinese leadership was up to with corruption, swiping human body parts, polluting environment. Western nations exported manufacturing jobs off to China for virtual slave labour to perform. I think that this is called "chickens coming home to roost".
Actually, in late 2001 the US agreed to withold their veto to obstruct Chinese membership in WTO if the Chinese withdrew their 2 army divisions in NE Afghanistan. Remember those pictures of Chinese munitions in Afghanistan caves at the beginning of the Afghan war?
Nice trade, huh?
Kinda like trading Wayne Gretzky for a house league peewee player!!!
Well, Saudia Arabia is a muslim country. If the Saudi's want to limit freedom of speach in their country, I am fine with that. What I am not fine is people from foreign countries coming into other countries and telling the people that they need to accept them and do as they wish or else that is an invasion. I don't care if it is a soft invasion and they don't use tanks. It is still an invasion and it needs to stop.
Cat Stevens seemed alright at the border. 60s/70s guy all relaxed and shit and then he pulls some Samuel L. Jackson shit out of left field.
Notice his music went kind of downhill from his previous successes. I guess you have to focus on one or the other.
That is why Don Ho kept shlepping pineapples and hula hoops. No need to fuck with a good ting, bra.
Eventually the regime in Saudi Arabia will fall and become more radical.
Go long Berkawear hiding female faces for the west. Also Muslim prayer rugs as more Christians and Jews are killed. Most people in the west are already in denial.
Arabs need not be muslims. The real hope is that the pedophile gets ditched.
look this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE
Those camel humpers are such a special group. Such a warm loving religion
We should send Lurch Marie Kerri over there and give them a stern talking to in French!
A religion or god who needs to be defended from words and images with acts of physical violence and oppresion is neither.
+1000 on that comment.
Apparently Allah is defenseless. No power to seek his own revenge.
There is no Allah, and Mohammed was no prophet.
If he isn't a muslim this violates the UN convention on human rights.What balls! If your country descended to that level of despotism, would you have the courage to do what this man and his lawyer did? What will you do to stop the predation now, today? He's Bradley Manning.
His name was Raif Badawi.
It's still the year 1688 in Saudi Arabia.
7th through 21st centuries, it's all the same to Islam.
The Saudi regime is a gang of criminal pigs. They should be force fed with pork until they vomit. Rinse and repeat.
The US has been pointing fingers in the wrong direction for decades.
Perhaps you mean Anally or Rectally.
I will admit, I had something like that in mind ;-)
I heard that human rights groups are planning to condemn nuclear war when it's over.
Every man here should be able to stand for his words in similar fashion. Fight the fuckers off or take the beatin'.
It's your choice. Do you really believe what you type?
Words are cheap when uttered in a country that protects your right to make them.
Give me a .50 cal a 20x scope a 1000 rounds of ammo, and a backpack full of trail mix and gatorade and a high hill overlooking ISIS.. Call a front end loader after I'm done because it's going to take a lot of manual labor to bury them all..
Hypocrisy - Thy Name Is USSA
Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, fine of 1 million riyals ($266,000; £175,000).
- He is Better Off Dead
I looked at a few online articles on this guy an none say what his insult was. "Fuck you Mohammed and the camel you rode in on" "Allah blows Jew cock" What did he say? I get a gay vibe from his pic, eye make-up? They are not too fond of the gays (openly at least). The punishment is way harsh. Probably just the SA govt version of circus to deflect public attention from the real problems there. ISIS or some other alphabet group will eventually behead the monarchy and go 100% Sharia law. iow, not much will change. Asides from the mass beheadings/firing squads the first few months.
It is about Control & Power. Typical of Government or Empire.
The gun and badge thugs beat mentally challenged and homeless Kelly Thomas into a coma from which he later died from for absolutely nothing.
http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/january2014/140114thomas.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas
I'll let the Saudis worry about the thugs in their country, as I concentrate on the thugs here.
The banksters need to repay us.
You're right but I don't know what is more disgusting. What the three police officers did or what the courts did?
God rest Kelly's soul.
Wrong thread
Not to make light of this man's plight and the evil of the regime but I can see a movie being made about this titled, "When blogger meets flogger". Or perhaps "On a trip with the whip."
What better way to sow the seeds of division, animus and hatred than to daily incite acts that encourage them around the globe through violent and deadly actions of every possible means using race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, role in the big play, age and disability to maximize it
I send out my universal love to each and every one of you and all entities and forms of creature in all dimensions that truly seek peace, unity and actively seek to do no harm. We will not find this anywhere on this planet in its current condition as long as the instigators of chaos are everywhere. And are so brazen to broadcast subtle, even at times overt messages, yet hide in the dark like vermin all the while proclaiming to seek the light
So, in order to effect change you can believe in, we have actively been working on a global initiative that will expose the truth and shine the one true light everywhere. This requires your actively participation. And as a result you will know the truth and the truth shall make you free
"Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists"
Never have more true words been spoken if you can see the light. It's just a matter of discerning what is the source of true light of the messenger. And since globalist satanists serve the dark star or false light they say the opposite of what they mean forwards and the truth backwards. And now you know what the quote above means forward and why "Yes, We Can" is thank you satan backwards. I only thought it fair to use one red and one blue example so as not to offend either side of the currently misled unenlightened false paradigm. We look forward to a bright and shiny lunar year of the sheep
Fuck Islam. May Muhummud be BBQed with a side of hog.
Even Jesus got less lashes then that.
Look up the difference between scourging and flogging. Quite different. Scourging is often fatal by it's very nature.
Miffed
Steve Liesman and Jim Cramer should be given a thousand lashes every time they open their mouths to speak.
Hypocrite government
Careful, that cartoon pencil and whips may give Playdoh ideas for a new toy for kids
https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/2442160/thumbs/o-PLAY-DOH-PENIS-570.jpg?6
One lash cuts the skin open and leaves a permanent scar, worse if the recipient is prone to keloids. Singapore uses the lash for such things as overstaying a visa (for Third Worlders), and the scarred---horrifically scarred---are all over SE Asia. If this guy gets 1000, he’ll be pure scar, if he survives.
Our “ally” Saudi Arabia, the very center of the Koran Belt, continues to this day to have a law stating that the practice of any faith other than Islam is punishable by death via public beheading. There are no churches in Saudi Arabia. The importation or possession of a Bible, Torah, Teachings of Buddha, etc. is against the law. In addition, government checkpoints on the roads to Mecca or Medina stop all cars and demand proof of Islamic faith. Non-Moslems are prohibited entry to anywhere near the cities. The Saudis are nice enough to post highway signs in various languages warning of the upcoming “Non-Moslem turn-off Ahead”.
Those who grow up in the country are taught that any belief other than Islam is so vile that it requires the literal sword of the government to keep the nation pure. It is hardly surprising that the country produces many jihadis. Ron Paul and others with no actual experience in the ME can claim all they want that radical Islam is solely the result of US and Western foreign policy, but that is incomplete at best and woefully naïve at worst. The US could denounce Israel today, pull out completely from the ME, and bring back to life anyone harmed by US actions, and the Islamic radicals would still take aim at “infidels” in the West.
Not only does the USG not take Saudi to task for maintaining such laws and allowing Saudis to be inculcated with this sort of hatred, but not a single so-called Islamic moderate takes exception to these laws. They all still go on Hajj or Umra, and take offense if Switzerland bans the construction of new minarets or France bans the burka. The government of Saudi Arabia has funded the construction of mosques around the world, including one that can be seen from the Vatican. Churches in Saudi, however, are "harram".
Heck of an ally.
The Taliban in luxury.
Succinct ... compelling.
Not only do the "royals" fund mosques around the world, they destroy any archeological sites in the kingdom that are not directly connected to islam. A vile but so far successful way to rule "their" sheeple.
Saudi sounds a lot like militaristic Japan in the early 1900s. No behavior outside that prescribed by the psycho State.
What's even worse is that the Saudis actively fund Islamic schools known as madrassas all over the Moslem world. The really bad part of this is that these "schools" exclusively teach the violent fundamentalist branch of islam know as wahhabism. Essentially they are breeding grounds for radicals, pushed all over the world by our "friends" the saudi ruling class. Boys go to these sad excuses for schools and the entire curiculem consistes of reading and memorizing the koran and listening to radical mullahs preach.
Absolutely correct ! I have been all over the world, including the massively over-bred islamic scum population centers and have seen that even in the poorest places, where there is zero infrastructure, including NO schools teaching anything useful, there is ALWAYS a gleaming mosque paid for by the saudis where the locals can be brainwashed starting from first ability to listen. If you look inside you will see them memorizing the koran, the ONLY subject taught.
“Ron Paul and others with no actual experience in the ME can claim all they want that radical Islam is solely the result of US and Western foreign policy”
Ron Paul is a simple-minded buffoon. If islamic terror, oppression, conquest, enslavement, rape, forcible conversion to islamic cult, etc are the result of USA’s policies, then WHY have the islamic cult worshipers been practicing these behaviors FOR CENTURIES BEFORE THE USA EVEN EXISTED ??????
Those who blame the USA should be forced to learn the history of the islamic cult and how it was spread by force and conquest – the islamic cult worshipers almost exterminated the Buddhists and Buddhism in India, it survived only up in the Himalyas.
Saudi hell is the epicenter of the islamic cult. USA should reverse the spread of the islamic cult by conquering all the islamic territories that have resources and forcing the occupants to either convert to Buddhism or be executed.
Yep, the US govt won't even ban their oil being dumped under market at the expense of people here in the US working to produce what is needed right here. The US allows these creeps to sell their oil cheap and economically lash others who made investments based on lies told by these people. What does our govt do? It sanctions this behavior as well as behavior by these people that harms it's own citizens which makes the govt the enemy of it's citizens. If the US govt is trying to hurt Putin with the oil "weapon", then by extension it's purposely and intentionally doing the same to it's own citizens who are hurt by low oil. Why should people have any loyalty or allegience to a govt that knowingly harms them when they have not harmed anyone?
Heck of a govt
Ahh yes, our very blind eye turned to those we find 'useful' allies
It should be pointed out that the Saudis are best buds with the Bush family. I say this as someone who strongly disapproves of Obama.
10 years for expressing an opinion. Fucking savages.
Yep and yet people here cheer against expensive US shale oil which is touted as a farce but Saudi oil is the real deal because it's so cheap. Twisted values IMO.
So dude! What are you up to after Friday prayers?
I'm gonna catch the flogging, you?
I gotta get back home and rape my phillipino housemaid. After I gotta drive the kids to soccer practice.
See you at the beheading on Tuesday?
Sounds good, have a nice rape.
Dude got off lucky...
he could a' got waterboarded.
Nice. I wonder if it is OK to waterboard captives in Saudi Arabia if you first separate their head from the rest of their body...
Knowing what Saudi Arabia is, and criticizing them using a blog that does not assure your anonymity, especially while living in the country, sort of invites punishment. The Founding Fathers were certainly going to cause a ruckus with England. They did not sit on the lawn in Philadelphia and listen to rebellious speeches. They huddled in a stuffy building on hot muggy days - closing the windows and drapes so that they would not be overhead by the British. When they criticized the King they invented pen names to use on their letters and books. You can be a famous anti-Saudi blogger - but not for long. Or you can be a member of Fight Club, and go on forever.
Dammed savages.
That entire region should be glazed over with a nice coating of Trinitite.
My God, is there no man with a spine in the US government? Bomb those fucks now and let Iran have the oil.
Why bomb them? Sink their tankers and blow up their pipelines, problem solved.
1000 lashes is a death sentence.
20 lashes can kill, 50 in one setting will permanently deform or kill.
Doing that once a week for a year will either kill him or permanently deform him. Infection, etc.
Send these savages back home from wherever it is they came from. I'm tired of hearing about these barbarous kooks.
Just don't buy their oil. See how easy it is? The people responsible would lose their power in an instant.
Ridiculously unrealistic at present. Try again.
A tough character to remain silent through 1000 lashes.
This is the Religion of Peach (TM), remember? Nothing to worry about, move along citizens.
"US ally" Just like ZH bloggers.
Pedophile mohamet wasn't a US ally. Pedophile mohamet wasn't a blogger.