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Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars
The Guardian ^ | May 18, 2015

Posted on 05/18/2015 10:25:35 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Jobs classified as ‘religious functionaries’ at lower end of civil service scale 85 reported executed so far this year, rivalling total for whole of 2014

Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.

No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is “executing a judgment of death” but also involve performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences, the advert, posted on the civil service jobs portal, said.

Executions and death sentence statistics worldwide: interactive

The Islamic kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say. It ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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To: glock rocks
Check the retirement benefits, make sure you don't get stiffed.

21 posted on 05/18/2015 10:49:15 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ken5050

Yikes.

Here’s a less “San Francisco” performance of same:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1qd3bwv3N4


22 posted on 05/18/2015 10:50:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ken5050


23 posted on 05/18/2015 10:50:04 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: bk1000

I heard an atheist/leftist democrat actually say that opposing Sharia in America was suppressing religious freedom.


24 posted on 05/18/2015 10:50:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I wonder what their pay scale is.........

Well they did say it was at the lower end of the Civil Service pay schedule.

25 posted on 05/18/2015 10:51:23 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: COUNTrecount

Beheadings will continue until morale improves.


26 posted on 05/18/2015 10:51:42 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: GraceG

I was thinking maybe they’d have them chop up a goat to demonstrate their style, then...dinnertime.


27 posted on 05/18/2015 10:51:51 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BitWielder1

Speaking of benefits, I hear the health insurance is an arm and a leg.


28 posted on 05/18/2015 10:52:48 AM PDT by glock rocks (My New Year resolution? 1920x1080 as always.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Holy Shiite!!!! This is series!


29 posted on 05/18/2015 10:53:41 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Ah Yes, the Doctor Gillespie killings...


30 posted on 05/18/2015 10:54:09 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Red Badger

All the chops he can take!


31 posted on 05/18/2015 10:57:55 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Red Badger

The salary isn’t that great but when you castrate rapists, they let you keep the tips.


32 posted on 05/18/2015 11:01:07 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: bigbob

Ya gotta be sharp!


33 posted on 05/18/2015 11:04:32 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: JoeProBono

a southpaw


34 posted on 05/18/2015 11:05:05 AM PDT by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I wonder what their pay scale is.........

It's heady.

35 posted on 05/18/2015 11:05:58 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: COUNTrecount

Curious - How would Sharia law have treated our rioters and looters recently?


36 posted on 05/18/2015 11:06:32 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: bigbob

Well....the resumes could prove interesting....


37 posted on 05/18/2015 11:08:42 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s all they know how to do. They have not produced a decent thing of any value to civilized people in 1400 years.


38 posted on 05/18/2015 11:08:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s piece work.

Fifty bucks a head....


39 posted on 05/18/2015 11:10:38 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: bigbob

“Wonder what the interview process entails?”

I would think that it would be to cut off a hand and a head. If he does it without question or panic, he has a job.


40 posted on 05/18/2015 11:21:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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