Posted on 12/16/2013 3:58:34 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
Omar al-Saeed had called for a constitutional monarchy and attacked the ruling family over its human rights record.
A Saudi judge has sentenced [him] 300 lashes and four years in prison.
Saeed did not have legal representation at the secret hearing when he was sentenced on Sunday, ACPRA said in a statement on its website.
US-allied Saudi Arabia is ruled by the al-Saud family together with powerful clerics from the country's Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.
King Abdullah is the prime minister and he appoints the government, which includes top princes in the roles of foreign, interior, defence and intelligence ministers. Most senior princes also have extensive business interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
is democracy being flogged?
“Omar al-Saeed had called for a constitutional monarchy and attacked the ruling family over its human rights record.”
Pretend you’re flying a plane over a vast ocean. You’re almost out of fuel as you pass a small, uninhabited island. But you fly on hopping to find a landing place that will save the plane. But you’re really low on fuel. Do you go back and land the plane on water? Or, do you fly until you crash and then face death?
This is the royal house’s dilemma. They could soft-land now and stay a powerful but not all powerful political force. Eventually, if they don’t soft land at an island, they’ll crash at sea and probably die.
The left will not have any problem with this. However if we put a mass murderer to death they scream.
The left are backwards on everything
Well, yes. A fighter for democracy is put to this punishment.
A man advocating for a step towards a constitutional republic gets flogged and imprisoned. So, yes.
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