Son: Briton, 74, may not survive Saudi's lashings over illicit wine

CNN ^ | 10/23/15 | Greg Botelho

[JimRed]

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, especially in a backward Muslim hellhole.

[ek_hornbeck]

The rigid mind of the Saudi’s under the yoke of Shari Law tells us why they are such a backward nation. Even with the incredible wealth of their oil money, they are a backward nation living in the fantasy world of a narcissist “prophet” thief. Tell me one industry (other than oil production) they have created. Is their a Saudi Microsoft? Amazon? Apple? Volkswagen? Samsung? GE? Even American enterprise built their oil production capability. That technology they stole from the West. What does Saudi Arabia do? Beat people to death because they made a little home made wine. That home made wine maker could have become Saudi Arabia’s leading wine producer. So short sighted. Pathetic!!!

Saudi Arabia's wealth is entirely the result of squatting on shallow, sweet oil. The intellectual labor required to extract that oil is done by American and European geologists and engineers. The physical labor is done by Asians and Africans who are effectively slaves.

When the oil runs dry and the Saudis have to live by their wits, they'd be light years behind even other Arab countries (e.g. Egypt, Jordan) in economic development.

[jonrick46]

I don’t have the same optimistic future for the Saudi’s when oil no longer is their economic genie. They will be like that trailer park trash who won the lottery and in five years is living on the streets.

[PATRIOT1876]

*Saudi Arabia: where an elderly Brit will probably be beaten to death for home-made wine, while Saudi men can rape and kill servants and workers with impunity with not so much as a slap on the wrist.*

Their diseased minds cannot grasp the concept:
“Let the punishment fit the crime”

Guy makes homemade wine. Fine should be $14.00 plus a case of homemade wine for the hypocritical “holy” men.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Just curious, are there studies to show SA running out of oil? I find it hard to believe that they will run out anytime soon.

[ek_hornbeck]

No, it was intended to be a hypothetical scenario. For better or for worse, the Saudi Royals and their radical Mullahs/Imams will continue squatting on a vast wealth of oil for a long time to come.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Thanks, I appreciate the reply.

[BobL]

I think it’s time that the BRITS stop acting like CRY BABIES and learn to be more accepting of the customs and lifestyles of other countries.

And by the way, why would a 74 year old Westerner be living in Saudi Arabia?