Posted on 08/06/2018 4:01:44 PM PDT by tcrlaf
The Saudi Arabian government plans to withdraw all Saudi students studying at Canadian universities, colleges and other schools in retaliation for Canada criticizing the country’s human-rights record.
A Saudi government source, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said there are more than 15,000 Saudis here on government-funded scholarships, grants or in trainee programs. Accompanying family members bring the number to 20,000 or more.
The Saudi students will be moved immediately to study programs in other countries with similar education systems, such as Britain or the United States, the Saudi official said.
Separately, Saudi Arabian Airlines, via the official Saudi Press Agency, announced Monday it will suspend all flights to and from Toronto as of Monday August 13.
This punitive action is being taken against Canada after Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her department last week publicly called for the immediate release of civil-rights activists in the Mideast country and signaled concern over a new crackdown on dissidents by Riyadh.
In response, Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador Sunday, recalled its ambassador and froze new trade dealings with Canada, decrying what they called foreign interference in their domestic affairs. The Saudis said they will “put on hold all new business and investment transactions with Canada while retaining its right to take further action.”
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PASS THE POPCORN....
As an Albertan, good riddance you Islamic bastards.
Canadian Idiot on Twitter:
“Those Saudi students will be replaced by Filipinos and Indians in a flash, and who make great citizens if they choose to stay. Salman, go spread your misogyny elsewhere thank you.”
I am sure those phillipinos and Indians have as much money to spend while in schools as the Saudi’s do. Right???
BMW and Benz sales in college towns won’t suffer?
Sounds like Canada has embraced Jimmy Carter style stupidity.
Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country. You are going to get a dictator one way or the other. You are better off with a dictator that is going to try to modernize the nation. Wanting "human rights" there is just stupid.
It's this sort of idiocy that gave us the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Presumably they were going to go back to Saudi Arabia. I think the world is better off with Western educated Saudis than it is with madrassa educated Saudis.
If you want to drag the Islamic world into the 21rst century, we are going to have to educate their leadership in Western ideas.
This was a dumb move, especially since the current King has just started implementing many liberalized reforms against the wishes of the hard line Islamic nut jobs.
Castro's son is pretty stupid.
Oh, great.
Castro’s son is full retard. Islam in any form needs to go. I don’t how reformed they think they are.
I’d like to see mass deportations.
funny thing about Canaduhhh
They supported castro
they support maduro
Iran?- the Canadian trade minister Chrystia Freeland announced on 5 February 2016 that they will lift economic sanctions against Iran, which will allow Canadian companies to do business-
But they happen to hate the Saudis ?
Maybe Trudeau can go and bow to their king-
sarc
“I think the world is better off with Western educated Saudis than it is with madrassa educated Saudis.”
Riyadh should have been turned into radioactive dust on 9/12/2001.
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First detained on apostasy charges in 2008, Badawi was released after a day of questioning.[2] He was prevented from leaving Saudi Arabia, and both his and his wife’s bank accounts were frozen in 2009.[9] The family of Badawi’s wife subsequently filed a court action to forcibly divorce the couple on grounds of Badawi’s alleged apostasy.
On 17 June 2012, he was arrested on a charge of “insulting Islam through electronic channels”,[2] and the following December he was also cited for apostasy, a conviction which carries an automatic death sentence.[10][11] Human Rights Watch stated that Badawi’s website had hosted material criticizing “senior religious figures”.[11]
Badawi had also suggested that Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University had become “a den for terrorists.”[12]
Following the 2012 arrest, Amnesty International designated Badawi a prisoner of conscience, “detained solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression”, and said: “Even in Saudi Arabia where state repression is rife, it is beyond the pale to seek the death penalty for an activist whose only ‘crime’ was to enable social debate online”.[13]
Calling for the government to drop the charges, Human Rights Watch stated: “The charges against him, based solely to Badawi’s involvement in setting up a website for peaceful discussion about religion and religious figures, violate his right to freedom of expression”.[2]
Charged with “setting up a website that undermines general security”, “ridiculing Islamic religious figures”, and “going beyond the realm of obedience”, Badawi appeared before a district court in Jeddah on 17 December 2012.[1] The judge referred the charge of apostasy to a higher court, saying he “could not give a verdict in a case of apostasy.”[14] On 22 December, the General Court in Jeddah decided to proceed with the apostasy case.[1] The higher court refused to hear the case and referred it to the lower court.[15]
On 30 July 2013, Saudi media reported that Badawi had been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that “violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought”. The court also ordered the website closed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raif_Badawi#Arrest,_trial_and_first_sentence
Withdrawing Saudi students from Canadian flight schools can only be a good thing for Canada.
North America gets safer! Remember most of the terrorists on 9-11 were Saudi.
Lucky Canada!
How can we do the same?
WOW , all you have to say to Saudi Arabia is “Women’s Rights” and they pack up and run away ,LOL
LOL, now the Canucks won’t be able to heat their igloos with camel dung.
Girlfight!
Oh, h3ll no!
They start out in the madrassas and then finish up in western universities where they preach Islamism.
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