26 Beheadings Since August 4 By Our Ally Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has enacted more beheadings than ISIS, but we stay silent about it because they are our friends.
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Human rights groups say there has been an upsurge of executions in Saudi Arabia, after more than one execution per day in the first three weeks of August was carried out. To date this month, the country has almost doubled the number of declared executions in the seven months before August 4.
Charges have included murder, drug smuggling, and sorcery. On August 18, four members from the same family in the southwestern city of Najran were beheaded for smuggling a “large quantity of hashish”. The next day a Saudi national was executed in the northern city of Qurayyat for sorcery.
The Saudi Ministry of Justice has announced the execution of 26 individuals since August 4. In the seven months prior, 15 executions were carried out, bringing the total number to 41 so far this year…
Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at UCLA, told Al Jazeera that Saudi law is based on two separate systems. In business matters, it is sophisticated. In civil law, however, Islamic courts retain jurisdiction. “What this has amounted to is Sharia courts staffed by judges who are completely disconnected from modern criminal law,” he said. “The amount of discretion left to judges is monumental”, so that “there is no way to guarantee a fair trial”.
According to Abou El Fadl, judges in civil courts have also become more vicious in their application of Islamic law, as they vent their frustrations against what they perceive to be the un-Islamic behaviour of foreigners or members of the royal family.[su_csky_ad]
mea_mark September 6th, 2014 at 4:46 pm
The less oil we need from the middle east, the less the Saudis are going to be our ally. All the money pouring in has helped them retain control over the population. As that starts to dry up, more traditional middle eastern brutal forms of controlling the population will be used to keep the masses in line and the rulers in power. The middle east will see quite a bit of turmoil in the years to come, as they sort themselves back out without lots of western money pouring in from oil sales. The brutal strong men will rise back to the top and the oil barons will slowly lose power as their wealth is used up.
R.J. Carter September 6th, 2014 at 4:53 pm
“The less oil we need from the middle east, the less the Saudis are going to be our ally.”
So… Canada pipeline? 🙂
mea_mark September 6th, 2014 at 5:01 pm
No, more alternative forms of energy. Oil should not ever be used power stationary objects. If we only used oil/natural gas to power mobile objects we would need a lot less and have more than enough without Canada’s extremely toxic tar sands oily junk. Oils greatest value is that it is an easily transported concentrated source of energy when burned. We need to use it that way and quit wasting it, just because it used to be plentiful and cheap.
R.J. Carter September 6th, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Actually, I think the fastest way to alternative energy is to waste the oil even more. Burn it up until it’s gone, and then there’ll be little choice but to move to something else. As long as it’s available and easy to get, it’ll be the go-to source.
mea_mark September 6th, 2014 at 5:22 pm
Problem with that is, it destroys the environment necessary for humanity to comfortably exist in and may even wipe out humanity altogether.
edmeyer_able September 6th, 2014 at 6:22 pm
Saw this today on twiiter, it would be so great if it can be used for both cool and warm weather…http://www.omgfacts.com/Technology/MIT-students-developed-a-wristband-that/62139?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=first&redirectfrom=omgfacts.com&usre=1…
M D Reese September 6th, 2014 at 9:28 pm
Win-win! …Oh wait…
edmeyer_able September 6th, 2014 at 5:30 pm
More fracking…..lmao no thanks.
R.J. Carter September 6th, 2014 at 5:42 pm
Full disclosure: my company makes fracking equipment.
edmeyer_able September 6th, 2014 at 5:43 pm
Ah.. another piece of the puzzle…..
R.J. Carter September 6th, 2014 at 5:48 pm
But not oil sand extraction stuff.
Carla Akins September 6th, 2014 at 5:49 pm
Mine participates in tax inversion. (I was just feeling left out)
edmeyer_able September 6th, 2014 at 6:09 pm
Just created a GreenPeace account wishing I didn’t get seasick so easily.
M D Reese September 6th, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Yeah–and that will be great for the environment as well! win-win! (snark)
tiredoftea September 6th, 2014 at 5:26 pm
The problem is that most of our oil use already goes to vehicles. So, you just signed up fro the status quo!
mea_mark September 6th, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Most is not good enough for me. I am practical to a degree and recognize the value in portable energy. It is the use of portable energy for stationary objects that makes me mad.
edmeyer_able September 6th, 2014 at 7:55 pm
Hope……MT”@JimHarris: $71 Trillion Savings By 2050 w/Transition 2 #Renewables IEA Report http://bit.ly/1pY4lTC pic.twitter.com/hDj0ldPx0n”#NCGA #ncpol
mea_mark September 6th, 2014 at 8:13 pm
It is going to happen, it is just a matter of time and how much pain we are going to go through putting it off.
fancypants September 7th, 2014 at 3:54 am
I prefer the independent energy system over renewable
M D Reese September 6th, 2014 at 9:25 pm
I agree. We need a balanced approach. There are a lot of steps we can take to cut our consumption. There are a lot of different ways to generate electricity–which would be better for stationary uses, and a lot of portable uses as well with the advances in technology. I’d suggest we start discouraging christian homeschooling and pushing the sciences in public school, or we will never get much further than we are now.
edmeyer_able September 6th, 2014 at 5:05 pm
China will be the biggest consumer of that oil. Let Canada build the pipeline across their lands, IF the natives will let them.
M D Reese September 6th, 2014 at 9:20 pm
No. Use less oil. You’d think that the oil companies would be all over renewable energy generation. We need a balanced approach. Besides, from what I understand, we wouldn’t be getting the oil from that pipeline anyway. Why risk the chance of spoiling our main source of water for a wide swath of the US including a lot of farmland. Canada is trying to push their resource extraction risks on us. The oil they want to put in that pipeline is some of the dirtiest oil that there is. Here’s what they’re doing to Alaska (besides wanting to put in the huge Pebble Strip Mine):
http://riverswithoutborders.org/blog/2014/08/high-ranking-alaskans-call-on-u-s-state-department-to-intervene-with-canada-over-british-columbia-mine-threats
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 3:37 am
like returning to keeping people in chains and destroying families and kidnapping?
mea_mark September 7th, 2014 at 8:50 am
It wouldn’t surprise me.
Denise September 6th, 2014 at 5:05 pm
It all depends on why they are being executed. I have no problem with executions for child molesters, thieves, rapists, murderers, and drug dealers. Drug dealers destroy lives and communities, get rid of them. Same with
molesters and pedophiles, get ride of them!
Just make sure you have the right people.
jsutton September 6th, 2014 at 5:36 pm
I suppose you did read about the two men recently released after being in prison for thirty years in North Carolina, falsely accused and condemned.
M D Reese September 6th, 2014 at 9:10 pm
That’s just it. The death penalty is permanent. In this country it is not given out equally under the law, and a lot of innocent people end up on death row. Just in the last two weeks two men were released after being locked up for 30 years for a crime they did not commit. Imagine if they had been executed.
juicyfruityyy September 6th, 2014 at 9:19 pm
I don’t’ believe in execution. Plus, a thief can be someone who steals a candy-bar or a radio. Should this person be be-headed? People lie and cover up. So you don’t know if you have the right people. Time would tell.
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 3:36 am
maybe a chaney?
fancypants September 6th, 2014 at 5:06 pm
………………..
Chinese Democracy September 6th, 2014 at 5:26 pm
“The next day a Saudi national was executed in the northern city of Qurayyat for sorcery.”. SORCERY. If this isnt a good enough reason to stop transferring all our wealth to Saudi Arabia I dunno what is.
Roctuna September 6th, 2014 at 5:37 pm
They have the most sophisticated, technologically advanced weapons in their military and the most sophisticated computers and software in their energy industry yet sorcery is a capital offense. That is what fundie religion gets you, plus that beheading/day. I bet they’re on tv.
neworleans878 September 7th, 2014 at 4:09 am
And this is what our sons and daughters fight for? de accord
tiredoftea September 6th, 2014 at 5:27 pm
If they keep this up, pretty soon they’ll be close to Texas in executions!
jsutton September 6th, 2014 at 5:34 pm
Sorcery? What barbarism fed by insane superstition. How can such people be reasoned with?
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 3:34 am
by using american logic like anti abortion blather and evangelical crap and gun wielding at walmart.
jsutton September 7th, 2014 at 9:02 am
ha ha. indeed.
neworleans878 September 7th, 2014 at 4:05 am
They can’t.
But as children of purpose, we can hope.
fancypants September 6th, 2014 at 5:47 pm
Careful who you make friends with
This conveniently blown off story is brought to you by….
John_St_John September 6th, 2014 at 6:02 pm
And now we know where ISIS gets their ideas on corporal torture and punishment from.
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 3:33 am
probably from all the saints who died by being – yuck – crucified or decapitated or stoned or – ooops, all that was done by xians.
John_St_John September 7th, 2014 at 11:18 am
Actually it was done long before Christianity or Islam even came upon the scene. Don’t believe me, just ask the Assyrians or Sumerians.
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 11:28 am
spoke to a couple of summerians who live down the road and they say the hebrews did a lot of that stuff. And then they said it would have been really exciting to strap people down to a table and slide needles into their veins and watch the cateleptic fits just before heading to the grave.
JohnathanA September 6th, 2014 at 6:16 pm
Muslims killing Muslims, so what’s new?
JohnathanA September 6th, 2014 at 6:22 pm
KSA has dealt with threats in the most lethal manner so that they do not encounter much threat from anyone anymore.
Ol Blue September 6th, 2014 at 6:36 pm
It’s okay because they have lots of oil. ISIS only has a little.
Terry September 6th, 2014 at 8:04 pm
You do not seem to comprehend the complexities of the relationship.
You seem to like things simply stated – to you it’s all about oil.
Are you not aware that the USA is set to become the oil powerhouse globally with all its recent discoveries.
If you had kept quiet, nobody would have realized your lack of knowledge.
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 3:31 am
as long as you rest comfortably in your cloud there will be no more brain damage – wtf are you babbling about?
Ol Blue September 7th, 2014 at 2:45 pm
I took it as spam from Exxon but it could be a real person. Hard to tell.
juicyfruityyy September 6th, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Maybe, this is a Humanitarian Issue, that can be discussed during the next Summit.
Tommy6860 September 6th, 2014 at 9:36 pm
Maybe, this is a Humanitarian Issue, that can be discussed during the next Summit.
And that place would be the “Peak” of hypocrisy. 😛
BarbL September 6th, 2014 at 9:29 pm
ARE we foolish enough to believe they are our friends? When the bastards that flew the planes into the WTC were all from Saudi Arabia. I pray not. The ARE friends with the Bush family though. That can be fact checked. Bush walking hand in hand with a prince. But that’s OK. Over a dozen beheaded under Bush and no one blamed him.
fancypants September 8th, 2014 at 6:28 am
plus one was jailed in Saudi Arabia for having a web page on the internet
NO INTERNET FOR YOU !
fahvel September 7th, 2014 at 3:27 am
at least the usa has a solid wealthy comrad nation as per capital punishment along with china and n. Korea. How one executes seems to me irrelevant if the results make the community and people happy and safe and secure. ;-(
Tom Ward September 7th, 2014 at 4:08 am
We shouldn’t be basing our foreign policy on a couple beheadings. Such a shame to see so many people flip flop on foreign intervention policy over what is really a minor incidence in the scheme of things.
neworleans878 September 7th, 2014 at 4:12 am
ok Tom…what would you do? serious inquiry…
rg9rts September 7th, 2014 at 1:42 pm
Unless its your scheme in the things
jsutton September 7th, 2014 at 9:25 am
These are the same people who don’t let women drive cars. I know it seems silly to mention, but the way a country treats its women is indicative of other policies, in this case, barbaric.
rg9rts September 7th, 2014 at 1:41 pm
How many executions by Texas???
Carla Akins September 7th, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Seven so far this year – matching Missouri, however MO has halted them due to the drug access issue but Texas has no such qualms.
David C. Nelson September 10th, 2014 at 8:00 am
None for sorcery, as far as I can tell.