Posted on 01/14/2016 9:22:14 AM PST by Starman417
A supposed ally of Great Britain and The United States, the Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia started the New Year of 2016 in traditional style by executing forty seven people. Most of them were executed for committing terror attacks within the kingdom. Among those executed was a Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimra, an outspoken critic of the Sunni, Saudi regime. The "guilty" victims faced death by firing squad or beheading although as yet, no Western leader has asserted that the Saudis pervert and distort the true, peaceful meaning of Islam as is the case with Islamic State.
The appalling execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimra has ramped-up tensions between Saudi Arabia and an outraged Iran but animosity between Sunnis and Shias has existed for centuries. Al-Nimra's execution just pours more oil on the fire and further internecine violence between Shias and Sunnis is sure to follow.
Saudi Arabian interference underpins the chaos in Syria as the Saudis provided generous funding to the rebels fighting to overthrow President Assad. Assad is an Alawite Muslim and Alawites follow the Twelver school of Shia Islam and Syria and Iran are strategic allies. Overthrowing Assad and replacing him with a Sunni President is the Saudi goal.
As well as destabilizing the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is a nation threatening world peace more than any other. The Saudi regime is one of the worst abusers of human rights and the main sponsor of Islamic jihad. Yet it remains an ally of Great Britain and America, it is the head of the United Nations Human Rights Council and thanks to its vast oil fields, the biggest in the world, controls world oil prices and generates $1 billion a day in revenues.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - a state conjured up out of previously warring tribes by the British and the Arabs following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in The Great War - is home to two of the holiest places in Islam: Mecca and Medina. It is forbidden for non-Muslims - the infidels, the dirty kuffar - to enter both of these places. This should give you a clear idea of how unbelievers are regarded in Islam and I think you'd struggle to name another major religion that forbids unbelievers from entering its holiest places.
Within the kingdom, the oppression of women is rife. They are totally subservient to men and unable to make decisions such as leaving the home, going to shopping malls, apply for a job or even get medical treatment without permission of a male guardian. The guardian will be a male family member, father, uncle, brother or if she's married, her husband. To see how difficult everyday life is for women in the kingdom, read this account from a Saudi woman. If that wasn't enough, women are also beheaded in public. Is this not gender apartheid? Oh my bad, can't say that, it's racist, or Islamophobic or something.
Free speech simply doesn't exist in Saudi Arabia. Under Islamic sharia, criticism of Islam or its prophet Muhammad is strictly forbidden. In 2015, liberal Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was found guilty of “insulting Islam†a crime for which he received a ten-year prison sentence accompanied with an eye-watering 1,000 lashes.
It's vitally important to understand that these punishments and the oppression of women are all mandated in the Islamic legal code, the sharia. Saudi Arabia is a strict, orthodox Sunni Islamic Kingdom applying laws just as the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, applied them himself. These barbaric laws aren't some perversion of Islam, they are a core part of true Islam. Islamic State also apply these brutal, inhumane laws yet Western leaders go to desperate lengths to paint ISIS as unIslamic whilst courting Saudi Arabia as an ally.
Let's compare and contrast the attitude of the international community towards Saudi Arabia with its attitude towards Israel, Serbia and South Africa. Deemed as three "rogue nations", the UN passed resolution after resolution against them. Western governments applied intense political pressure backed up with the threat of economic sanctions. Biased and often unjustified worldwide media condemnation occurred on a regular basis with facts grossly distorted to portray these nations in the worst possible light to sway public opinion against them. In the case of Serbia, a nation wrongly blamed for the break-up of Yugoslavia and accused of war crimes it did not commit, NATO's military might was applied to force the nation to accept an internationally-brokered peace agreement it had rejected. Arabs living in Israel enjoy more human rights than Arabs living in other Middle Eastern states including Saudi Arabia. South Africa, a nation made a pariah on the world stage due to the system of apartheid, didn't commit anything like the gross violations of human rights the Saudis do and was no threat to peace, either to its neighbours or globally.
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If the UN had any backbone, they would pass a UN “law” saying any country that punishes apostasy gets it’s rear end kicked out of the UN.
The UN Would lose every Islamic country in it’s membership overnight.
The problem with the UN is that Countries like Saudi Arabia get put on all these human right commissions when they themselves are the biggest offenders.
It is worse than letting the fox in the hen house, it is kicking the farmer out of his house and dressing the fox up as the farmer.
The whole world would be better off if oil had never been found in the M.E.
And so said Tony Blair of England and right now the POPE has picked up, and stated that nonsense. -Tom
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