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Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
Wed May 22, 2019, 06:06 PM May 2019

Saudi Arabia 37 beheadings was trial balloon, little reaction from world so more beheadings planned

Saudi Arabia will execute three prominent scholars who are being held on multiple charges of "terrorism" shortly after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

One of the men was arrested in September last year shortly after he tweeted a prayer for reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar amid the neighbours' diplomatic crisis.


All three scholars - cleric Sheikh Salman al-Odah, author Awad al-Qarni and broadcaster Ali al-Omari - have a massive presence online, with al-Odah's Twitter account having more than 13million followers.

Saudi Arabia, Britain's ally in the Middle East, is one of the world's most prolific executioners behind only China and Iran, according to Amnesty International.



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The timing has been dictated by escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia's ally US and its rival Iran.

The first source said: "They (Saudi Arabia) are encouraged to do it, especially with the tension in the Gulf at the moment.

"Washington wants to please the Saudis at the moment.

"The (Saudi) government calculates that this enables them to get away with this."


Saudi critic Ali al-Ahmad, head of the US-based Institute for Gulf Affairs, said the executions would be a "crime to terrorise the Saudi citizens into submission".

He told Al-Jazeera: "The Saudi court system is more or less a kangaroo court system."

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Saudi Arabia 37 beheadings was trial balloon, little reaction from world so more beheadings planned (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2019 OP
and we are threatening military action over Iran's supposed terrorism? DBoon May 2019 #1
A Fucking Disgrace Ferrets are Cool May 2019 #2
Would any of them be Kashoggi's murderers? Doubtful? keithbvadu2 May 2019 #3
Bread and circuses - Saudi style. lpbk2713 May 2019 #4
Bullshit Jake Stern May 2019 #5
Beheadings of dissidents by Aramco, the world's most profitable company sop May 2019 #6

DBoon

(22,284 posts)
1. and we are threatening military action over Iran's supposed terrorism?
Wed May 22, 2019, 06:08 PM
May 2019

not a word against our Saudi buds

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
5. Bullshit
Wed May 22, 2019, 07:34 PM
May 2019

He kissed just as much Saudi ass as presidents before him and after.

While Obama might have expressed slightly more disappointment with the Kashoggi killing than Twitler, at the end of the day the only thing that matters when it comes to KSA is that the sweet, sweet crude keeps a-flowin'.

sop

(9,943 posts)
6. Beheadings of dissidents by Aramco, the world's most profitable company
Wed May 22, 2019, 07:37 PM
May 2019

Saudi Aramco, owned by the Saudi government, or the Saudi Royal Family, is the most profitable company in the world. By comparison, Apple, the world's most profitable public company, made $59.4 billion in 2018, just over half as much as Aramco, and ExxonMobil, the largest US oil company, made $20.8 billion

Anyone who threatens the Saudi Royal Family's total control, and their oil profits, must lose their head. It's what happens when dictatorships and big business become one and the same: the ultimate fascist state. As Upton Sinclair noted, "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

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