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Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet To Death For "Renouncing Islam"
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.
Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
Fayadh’s supporters believe he is being punished by hardliners for posting a video online showing the religious police (mutaween) in Abha lashing a man in public. “Some Saudis think this was revenge by the morality police,” said Kareem.
The case highlights the tensions between hardline religious conservatives and the small but growing number of artists and activists who are tentatively pushing the boundaries of freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia, where cinema is banned and there are no art schools.
– From the Guardian article: Saudi Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
If ISIS had sentenced an internationally renowned poet to death on trumped up charges of “renouncing Islam,” it would be highlighted endlessly across Western media until the public was sufficiently salivating for war against the latest CIA-invented enemy.
When one of America’s closest allies does it…not so much.
It wasn’t long ago that I commented on a separate example of Saudi barbarism related to the case of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, a teenager sentenced to death by crucifixion for political dissent. Here’s a quick summary from that post:
A Saudi teenager is facing death by crucifixion in his home country of Saudi Arabia on charges activists say are politically motivated.
After being arrested, al-Nimr was held in jail and not allowed to speak to a lawyer. According to the British legal aid group Reprieve, al-Nimr was subject to torture to extract a forced confession. A closed appeals process — which he was not invited to and occurred without his knowledge — dismissed any remaining possibility that the nation’s legal system would prevent his biblical execution.
So how did the illustrious “global community,” embodied by the inept and corrupt UN decide to honor Saudi Arabia for consistent and well documented crimes against humanity? By selecting it to head its human rights panel, of course.
Now back to the topic at hand, the artist, Ashraf Fayadh, who was recently sentenced to death for “renouncing Islam.” The Guardian sums up the situation nicely:
A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.
A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.
Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
Fayadh’s supporters believe he is being punished by hardliners for posting a video online showing the religious police (mutaween) in Abha lashing a man in public. “Some Saudis think this was revenge by the morality police,” said Kareem.
Isn’t it cute that one of the U.S. government’s closest allies has a “morality police.” Where are the Hollywood celebs when it comes to the Saudis? Crickets, as usual.
The religious police first detained Fayadh in August 2013 after receiving a complaint that he was cursing against Allah and the prophet Muhammad, insulting Saudi Arabia and distributing a book of his poems that promoted atheism. Fayadh said the complaint arose from a personal dispute with another artist during a discussion about contemporary art in a cafe in Abha.
He was released on bail after one day but the police arrested him again on 1 January 2014, confiscating his ID and detaining him at a police station until he was transferred to the local prison 27 days later. According to Fayadh’s friends, when the police failed to prove that his poetry was atheist propaganda, they began berating him for smoking and having long hair.
The case highlights the tensions between hardline religious conservatives and the small but growing number of artists and activists who are tentatively pushing the boundaries of freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia, where cinema is banned and there are no art schools. Abha, which has become a hub for contemporary Saudi art, has been a focal point for these disputes in recent years. An anonymous collective of film-makers who set up a secret cinema in the city in October 2012received death threats from hardliners.
“He was instrumental to introducing Saudi contemporary art to Britain and connecting Tate Modern to the emerging scene,” said Stapleton. “He curated a major show in Jeddah in 2013 and co-curated a show at the Venice Biennale later that year.
Adam Coogle, a Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch, said Fayadh’s death sentence showed Saudi Arabia’s “complete intolerance of anyone who may not share government-mandated religious, political and social views”.
Of course, gross human rights violations against it’s own citizenry is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Saudi crimes. Indeed, the reason ISIS and Saudi Arabia have so much in common is because ISIS is essentially nothing more than the spawn of Saudi money and ideology. Don’t believe me? Here are a few excerpts from the post, Additional Details Emerge on How U.S. Government Policy Created, Armed, Supported and Funded ISIS:
“It was well known at the time that ISIS were beginning serious plans to attack Iraq. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey played a key role in supporting ISIS at this time, but the UAE played a bigger role in financial support than the others, which is not widely recognized.”
Intelligence was not precise on the exact timing of the assault, one source said, but it was known that various regional powers were complicit in the planned ISIS offensive, particularly Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
And I haven’t even talked about the obvious links between Saudi Arabia and the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Despite all that, this is how the U.S. government recently rewarded the Kingdom:
The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of $1.29 billion in smart bombs to Saudi Arabia to help replenish supplies used in its battle against insurgents in Yemen and air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.
The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which facilitates foreign arms sales, notified lawmakers on Friday that the sales had been approved, it said in a statement.
The sales reflect President Barack Obama’s pledge to bolster U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia and other Sunni allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council after his administration brokered a nuclear deal with their Shiite rival Iran.
Yes, the Gulf “allies” that fueled and funded ISIS since day one.
The agency said the sale would help the Royal Saudi Air Force’s (RSAF) replenish weapons supplies that are becoming depleted due to high demand for multiple counter-terrorism operations, while providing reserves for future missions.
“This acquisition will help sustain strong military-to-military relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia, improve (the ability of Saudi forces to work) with the United States, and enable Saudi Arabia to meet regional threats and safeguard the world’s largest oil reserves,” it said.
That right there is the only statement worth paying any attention to.
Saudi Arabia, one of the largest buyers of U.S. weapons, was approved in September for a potential second sale of 600 Patriot-PAC-3 air defense missiles made by Lockheed Martin Corp, a deal valued at $5.4 billion.
Last month, the U.S. government also approved the sale to Saudi Arabia of up to four Littoral Combat Ships made by Lockheed for $11.25 billion.
The only question is whether the acquisition of “smart bombs” will cut down on the number of Yemeni wedding parties bombed by the Saudis?
Unlikely.
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THe House of saud is crypto jews. They are not muslims.
See any similarities?
Look it up.
RIPS
Are you nuts?
Some people just take YouTube conspiracy theories too far.
You are failing at doing your homework.
You may need some remediation classes before you join the adults.
It is true they are related by blood. Wahabbis are crypto jews....or zionists ..whatever you want to call them.
Look it up. Try excluding wikipedia and google from your resources.
RIPS
After threatening to bomb Sochi, the House of Saud is being face slammed into a shallow grave.
That's what this is all about, Putin is fucking furious with Riyadh and he's gonna drive his cruise missiles right up to the Kaaba and pump Polonium into Gahwar just to make a point.
You don't threaten mobsters and Putin is the leader of the biggest organised crime syndicate on the planet. He can't let Prince Bandar or Saudi Arabia live.
But Saudi is a nation that only wants peace (unless you're a woman, Christian, not a member of "the family", or a dog) because their Wahhabism is clearly a religion of PEACE
There's gonna be peace in this town and I don't care how many people a have to hang to get it.
- Judge Roy Bean
"Peace"...of the action.
RIPS
Christianity is a religion of peace, too... in a nukes-up-your-ass kind of way, but still.
Maybe check with my old copy of 'Protocols.."?
Learning what and who to trust for information is the first step to success. If you believe anything you will believe everything.
Good Luck, I mean that seriously.
I would say the same to you.
I know my sources.
RIPS
Everyone in the intelligence industries refers to Israel and Saudi Arabia as the "sisters", nothing new.
You know it's actually very interesting when you look into it. The term "crypto jew" refers to the sabbateans, who would trace their lineage to a Jewish guy called Sabbatai Zevi. Long story short he went full retard and was more or less Satanic. The law of reversal, good is bad, bad is good. He was a professed messiah. He commanded a cult that spread across europe. As the story goes he ended up in the Ottoman empire where he converted to Islam but remained steadfast in his beliefs, as did his old followers, and new ones. Despite their outward professing of being a jew or a muslim, his followers were in truth part of his cult.
As I understand it, that is what a crypto jew is. They are not necessarily secretly a member of the jewish religion or race, as much as they are part of this cult. Are they crypto jews? I would assume so. To me crypto jew is sort of properly labelled "satanic elite" and has nothing to do with traditional judaism or much of any mainstream religion.
Anybody remember Salman Rushdie? Did the muzzies get him yet? It think the guy still has a $2MM bounty on his head (but good luck collecting it).
satanic verses - i remember him very well. what's their PO box, I want 2 collect my $2MM; that or send a brown dogy bag in defiance
I enjoyed Satanic Verses
Wackoism.
But giggle-worthy, at least.
"Wackoism"... are you a Fox News/Rush Limbaugh type?
After threatening to bomb Sochi, the House of Saud is nose diving into a shallow grave.
That's what this is all about, Putin is fucking furious with Riyadh and he's gonna march his cruise missiles right up to the Kaaba just to make a point.
Well Obama is a Sunni. Glad we put that to bed.
A sunni that wears a tortilla on his head at temple and kisses Jewish holy walls?
Got ya.
"tales of liberalism of my mother, the obama story"
RIPS
One of "Our" dear Allies.
Allegedly bombed us on 9-11 and - just like Israel - Refuses to take Syrian refugees
Nuke 'Em
Allegedly bombed us on 9-11 and - just like Israel - Refuses to take Syrian refugees
That should have read.
Allegedly, just like Israel, helped bombed us on 9-11 and -ALSO just like Israel - Refuses to take Syrian refugees
Islam means submission. Guy didn't get the memo.
Quran 8:12 “I will cast terror into hearts of disbelievers. Therefore strike off their heads & strike off every fingertip of them”
Personally I dont discriminate when it comes to religions. Im against them all. You should be allowed to practice whatever you want, but I will judge you for it.
"Then I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children.”"
ezekiel 9:5
Not sure what the context was, I just googled "fucked up shit in the bible"
Context is everything in the Bible. ezekiel 9 is a description of a vision the prophet had....of the future. Those that receive the mark of GOD are protected, the wicked are not.
Religions are simple.
They use force to coheres you into doing things.
If you arent afraid of the kings whip..eternal damnation will surely fuck you shirley.
Fear Factor...lol
RIPS
Christianity does not force you to do anything. But it does inform you of what happens if you reject YOUR CREATOR. If it didn't, you would complain about that too. There's no winning with some people.
It's all religious gibberish written in a book by non-existant god. Lighten up
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Psalms 14:1
If there is nothing to worry about, why say anything at all? I don't spend two seconds over UFO postings, Bigfoot claims, alien etc. You sound like a guy trying to convince yourself after reading BS on an atheist web site. You know the type that gives a book or movie review, despite having never taken the time to read the book or see the movie.
It's all religious gibberish written in a book by non-existant god. Lighten up
At some point you just have to cut old friends loose...no matter how close you were in earlier times...
This kind of action should provoke the strongets response from the governments of Europe and the USA.
It is almost like they are on the Saudi payroll...hey...has anyone checked on that?
You are sounding like a bitch...do your fucking homework.
Quit being an ass shitting everywhere.
RIPS
Saudi Arabia has gotten off lightly for all the wars and mayhem it has caused in this world. 100 attacks on hospitals in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the free and fair Western press is too busy covering the Kardashians. Time to face your karma.
Yemen hospitals ‘deliberately’ targeted in 100 attacks since March – ICRC
Medical facilities in war-torn Yemen are being ‘deliberately’ attacked, with some 100 incidents reported since the Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes in March, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, calling on all sides to cease hostilities.
https://www.rt.com/news/321522-yemen-hospitals-deliberately-targeted/ …
Here is a partial list of Saudi Arabia's other crimes in Yemen:
At least 3,500 have been killed as a result of the Saudi-led war, launched on March 26 of this year. Some 1,700 of these have been confirmed as civilians, according to the UN, with some 3,800 more civilians confirmed wounded.
Nearly 80 percent of the Yemeni population faces conditions of starvation, near starvation, and/or lack of reliable access to drinking water.
More than 1.2 million Yemenis have been forced to flee their homes by the war. At least 50,000 of the displaced have fled the country entirely, seeking refuge in neighboring countries of Oman, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.
Responsibility for the bloodshed and humanitarian disaster in Yemen lies squarely with Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf monarchies and their backers in Washington.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/20/yeme-j20.html
Swedish whores and nights on the town for me, lashings, morality police and public beheadings, for thee.
Strike hands with a savage and you gather the fruits of his evil. Alliance with devil worshippers puts innocent blood on your hands.
The oil companies, the bankers and the petro-dollar have secured ropes around the necks of Americans that pull the resistors to the guillotines. Coming here soon.
Didn't Saudi Arabia get the Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council? With Great Britain pushing for their vote.
Defund the UN and screw the whores who advanced SA to this post.
Didn't Saudi Arabia just get appointed or something to the United Nations Human Rights position?
Ahhh yes, here it is...
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/23/u-s-state-department-welcomes-news-c...
and...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-arabia-awarded-chair-human-rights...
and..
http://www.globalresearch.ca/united-nations-farce-saudi-arabia-to-head-u...
Breitbart posted the viral video of the invasion of Europe < taken down by YouTube >.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral-across-europe/
And how many have been killed by lawless cops under color of law in the US this year alone? SA simply pales in comparison, and the Saudis still bother with the utterly blazé semblance of "rule of law" thing too, even though it is called kingdom and the US is called a republic.
The koolaid drinking continues.
No way the US allows an overthrow of the Saudi kingdom; better to keep dissent down than risk any oil. Sad but true.
Our second best friend in the Middle East likes to kill Palestinians too.
We all have our prefernces. If they were beheading bankers we would be applauding.
They are no doubt a sick society but so is ours in other ways.
#religionofpeace
This is completely ok, because Saudi king is not Sadame.
9/11 report. Secret 27 pages. The deep state is in league with Saudi Arabia.
Vote Bush Jeb, he will invade Iraq again.
name 1 nation that has passed Islam exit protection laws.
Just 1
It would be interesting to know how many prominent Saudi families are actually funding ISIS through the back door.
There was a Saudi poet
Who lived in a nation of Islam and didn't know it
He bad mouthed the Koran
When he should have ran
and now he is dead.
Hey, Im not the Limerick King.
A sizeable minority of Christians in the US would love it if they could leverage the power of government to do the same things to unbelievers.
Bull crap.
He says, simmering with barely-restrained homocidal rage that anyone would call out his beloved lunacy.
Christianity is like the dog food of religions. If you're starving, you'll eat it with relish. But if you knew how to get your hands on literally almost anything else, you'll greatly prefer it.
Religions are power and use groups to take away individual natural rights.
Unfortunate but replaceable throughout history.
There may be a couple that believe in looking inwards.
RIPS
Hillary must love the Saudi's... The way she goes after Free Speech and all...
10,000 BC Goat F*ckers!
Find the Saudomite's AIPAC Lobby equivalent in the USA. Name and Shame the Congressmen/women Treasonous Filth who are in the Pocket's of this Public Relations Group(s).
We already know the Beast that is Hillary Clinton and her Tax Avoidance Foundations are Huge Beneficiaries of the Saud Petro Bucks.
My heart is heavy.
I would like it if they would label the pumps at gas stations, which ones are Saudi oil. I would avoid, to do my small part.
The Saudi sub-human inbred gin-soaked pedophile savages headed up by the fake Royals need to be brought to account for their vile acts of crimes against humanity.
It is way past time for Western governments to take action.
ps: I'm just hearing on RT.com that Bahrain is now accused of torture including sexual torture of detainees.
WTF is going on in that giant M/E sandpit??
My solution:
1. Massive invasion of Saudi peninsula, kill and destroy EVERYTHING islamic and arabic, especially all the cult sites, using weapons of mass eradication, NO URBAN FIGHTING, just herd all the cultists into the urban areas and then incinerate all the urban areas.
2A. USA now owns middle east peninsula and all resources as new USA territory, USA turns down the oil exports, raises the oil price and uses the revenues to pay off USA debt.
2B. USA deports ALL entitlement program parasites, latin invaders, coercive collectivists, socialists, common criminals, drug addicts, religious wackos, and other human garbage to new USA territory in the peninsula with one message: survive on your own skills or die, you get nothing from us. Terminate and prohibit all entitlement programs and income taxes in the USA.
3. Use new centrally-located USA territory in the peninsula to conquer adjacent islamic territories that have oil and gas resources, kill and destroy everything islamic, same as per #1, and add these lands to USA middle east territory.
4. Cut off all oil exports to all islamic cult countries, conquer them one at a time, same as per #1.
Result is eradication of islamic cult, ie historic islamic conquest and expansion in reverse, USA control over global oil, freedom, prosperity and peace in the cleaned-up USA homeland.
I for one am good with that.
Saudi Arabia is where Satan rules from
The place of ShaitanMuhammed
Mecca&Medina==shaitanWorship
They teach you how to kill, how to behead a goat, now apply that to humans
Asuras
So when do we go to war with Saudi Arabia and remove this 'brutal dictator'?
NATO = Saudi Arabia = ISIS = America
Saudi Arabs are the enemy of the human race.
America and its allies are anathema to the human race.
America = suffering