Posted on 05/23/2018 5:57:12 AM PDT by Spiridon
Saudi Arabia has reportedly arrested three more women's rights activists in a crackdown launched just weeks before a ban on women driving will be lifted.
Human rights groups said at least 10 people, most of them women who had long campaigned for the right to drive, had now been detained since last week.
Officials have said they are suspected of "suspicious contact with foreign parties" and "undermining "stability".
Other activists have said the crackdown is "unprecedented" and "shocking".......
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
This notion was played out in President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia last year.
I think not.
They are above all the home of jihad in Libya and now Syria in recent years. Also the spiritual heartland of the 9/11 terrorists-Al Qaeda plus the homeland of most of the 9/11 terrorists.
The Deep State leads President Trump down the wrong path of supporting Islamic Brand A over Islamic Brand B.
Which is like choosing who to support, Nazis or Communists?
Answer: None of the above.
Crickets from the Feminazis here.
Interesting timing considering this Drudge article, since it was his initiative that was opening up SA society.
Are reports of Mohammed bin Salman’s death greatly exaggerated?
There was a rumor (posted on Drudge) that the new Crown Prince(MBS), who was liberalizing Saudi Arabia, was killed, wounded or sidelined, after an outbreak of small arms fire at his palace on 21 April:
This crackdown on reformers who advocated letting women drive have been arrested, is a seeming reaction to MBS’ recent reforms. It is not yet clear if the modernization drive is over.
King Faisal was assassinated by a family member for being to liberal (allowing TV broadcasting). After that, Saudi Arabia became worse. MBS was taking big risks by making bold reforms.
Things are always opaque in Saudi Arabia, an absolute dictatorship Police State.
Where at the George and Amal Clooney’s on this?
They are moneyed by the elites that get the money from Gulf Arabs like the Saudis.
There’s plenty of foreign cash in Hollywood in general and the Saudi Crown Prince visited the Left Coast on his “goodwill tour” earlier this year.
President Trump has decided to go the route of the long term relationship with the Saudis it appears with his big visit last year and pledges of Saudi dollars being used to buy weapons from the USA and Saudi bucks being invested here in the USA.
It means hostility to Iran and one wonders where that ends up.
Will the “Persian Spring” be the new “Arab Spring” by this time next year?
A newer bigger Syrian situation on the map?
You could make the argument that it makes sense to side with the Saudis, for now, due to Iran’s ongoing development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, which must be stopped. And there is the fact that the new KSA Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, seems to be taking action to reign in the Wahabi factions.
That said, long term they are still our enemies.
Actually, long term, SaudiArabia is a staunch ally.
Ditto the GCC
Saudi Arabia widens crackdown on women's rights activists!"
Saudi Arabia:
Saudi Arabia Is About To Behead 6 School Girls For Acting ‘Indecently’ With Their Male Friends (link: http://www.cvikas.com/2018/05/19/saudi-arabia-is-about-to-behead-6-school-girls-for-acting-indecently-with-their-male-friends/)
Those women drivers may face execution.
(link: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-21/saudi-womens-driving-activists-accused-running-spy-cell-could-face-execution)
These KSA barbarians are not my ally.
*** Actually, long term, SaudiArabia is a staunch ally.
Ditto the GCC ***
Please see my post #11. With friends like the Saudis, who needs enemies.
“suspicious contact with foreign panties”
Yep, been there done that.
An exiled Saudi prince has called for a coup by his influential uncles to depose King Salman and prevent the current ruling structure led by his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, from doing more damage to the kingdom.
Prince Khaled bin Farhan, who has been awarded asylum in Germany, made the call on Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz and Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz in comments to the Middle East Eye news portal published on Monday.
In a few days we will know what is happening in KSA.
So MbS is hurriedly trying to get everything and everyone on his side. And the cousins know that if they wait it may be too late
Nearly all of the 911 terrorists were Saudis
It’s always the beardos with the halitosis that are called “reformers,” when they call for reactionary regression. Impossible problem. Everyone thought Ataturk had solved the problem, but here it pops back up again, and Turkey’s on its way back to the dark ages again.
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