IHMO, Saudi Arabia deserves to be listed in the top 10 Axis of Evil--PERSONIFIED!!!!
Posted on 11/23/2006 11:45:42 PM PST by yoe
Luckily, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers isn't Jewish.
Or a woman. Or gay.
The clown princes and oligarchs of Saudi Arabia don't take kindly to those kinds of people in their midst. Then again, Christians, Hindis, Buddhists, atheists, etc. ... aren't typically welcomed either. Nope, not even when they're "explaining."
Like our attorney general was asked to do when he was shuttled over to Saudi Arabia by the feds to "explain" why a Colorado resident named Homaidan Al-Turki was sentenced to 20 years to life.
Surely a brief e-mail could have done the trick and saved taxpayers thousands:
"Guys, you simply can't keep slaves over here ... nope, not even sex slaves."
And that's exactly what an unfortunate 24-year-old Indonesian woman, brought to the U.S. by Al-Turki to be family nanny and housekeeper, was: a slave. Al-Turki had confiscated her passport, paid her less than two bucks a day, kept her in a basement and sexually assaulted her.
Even his high-priced lawyers - likely paid for, as was his $400,000 bail, by the Saudi government - couldn't save Al-Turki from richly deserved jail time.
At sentencing, Al-Turki refused to apologize but did claim that prosecutors were attacking his "traditional Muslim behaviors." Not exactly a feminist, then.
Suthers' task couldn't have been easy over there. This "no slaves" business was probably tough to digest for folks who not so long ago may have owned a couple of humans themselves. Saudi Arabia only officially outlawed the practice of slavery in 1962. According to human rights organizations, the country still has plenty around - especially women.
So why was our newly elected attorney general mollifying some of the world's biggest gangsters?
Having spoken to Suthers, I have a better understanding of why he believes it was a good idea. Gov. Bill Owens, Suthers says, had called him on behalf of some higher-ups at the U.S. State Department. Al-Turki, you see, comes from a powerful Saudi family.
"I wasn't really excited about this. The election had just ended. This was not something I was eager to do. But James Oberwetter, the ambassador in Saudi Arabia, said that he was shocked at the amount of adverse publicity being generated as a result of this case," Suthers explains. "The influence of this particular family was tremendous. His father is an imam ... and the family has a lot of clout with the press over there."
Jeez, did we disturb fragile Saudi sensibilities concerning subjugation?
Not surprising.
In Saudi Arabia - a moderate Muslim nation, correct? - women are forbidden to drive and must be covered head to toe in public. They may not travel abroad without written permission from a male relative. Women who are caught breaking these laws face arrest and the prospect of lashes or worse. Yes, lashes.
Suthers explains that a few of the Saudi lawyers he met couldn't comprehend how any jury could lend credibility to an "Indonesian maid."
Suthers, who was put up in a six-room suite in Riyadh, has never visited other nations - say, Russia or Germany - to justify Colorado's legal system. We save the kid gloves, it seems, for the world's worst offenders of human rights.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to dispatch Suthers to ask the questions?
What's happening to those American children kidnapped by Saudi fathers? What's up with those Saudi telethons for Hamas - a designated terrorist organization? Why did so many 9/11 hijackers call Saudi Arabia home? Why does the Saudi imperial family fund militant Wahhabi schools across the world? You know, that sort of thing.
And until they answer, why not leave the Saudi footsie-playing to the State Department and the hand-holding smooch sessions to our president?
Suthers, elected by the people of Colorado, is here to enforce laws, not explain them.
He shouldn't even be asked.
(Pressed by despots to explain freedom? Send them here: supreme.lp.findlaw.com/constitution.)
id Harsanyi's column appears Monday and Thursday. e can be reached at 303-954-1255 or dharsanyi@denverpost.com.
I suggest we start in the Middle East.
We have the air power and we have the ordnance... one more cup of coffee, and begin the missions.
This Oberwetter person needs to be sacked immediately. He's indicative of every thing that's wrong with the State Dept.
This Saudi thug came into our country, violated our laws, held another human being as a chattel slave, raped, beat, and stole from her for years and this Oberwetter idiot has the audacity to demand that a States Attorney 'explain' the laws of the US and the State of Colorado to some foreigners?
What he ought to do is put a bullet into this subhuman dirtballs head and then ship his carcass back to Riyadh covered in fried pork rinds freight collect with a bill attached covering the costs of the investigation, prosecution, and incarceration of this animal.
L
The part of the article that pisses me off more than anything is the quote that the arrest is an attack on "traditional Muslim values." This is chutzpah, to use a word from people who are the target of traditional Muslim racism. Apparently being a Muslim means that you can do anything you want to anyone you want, and no one can ever say anything in opposition to the Muslim behavior. In my classroom, I call that a temper tantrum; in my description of the child to other teachers, the terms "spoiled brat" or "abusive little s***" might be used.
I'm sick and tired of hearing that any comment on the barbaric sickness of Muslim culture is somehow not allowable simply because it offends a Muslim.
Tolerance is not a suicide pact. If a Muslim does something offensive to MY cultural values, he needs to be told in certain terms that he needs to either straighten up, get the hell out, or be prepared for battle. I'm sick of these whining Islamochildren.
Happy Thanksgiving.
L
This bit should have every Left Wing Moon bat civil rights organization like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International screaming from the roof tops for the UN to do something to protect the women of Saudi Arabia.
But no they are far too busy yelling about how mistreated the prisoners of Club Gitmo are.
Like our attorney general was asked to do when he was shuttled over to Saudi Arabia by the feds to "explain" why a Colorado resident named Homaidan Al-Turki was sentenced to 20 years to life.
Unbelievable. These savages should of been told to pound sand.
It takes treasure, i.e., money, to wage jihad, terrorism, war or anything it's called, and that money has come from the oil-rich Countries in the Middle East. Iraq and Iran got most of the publicity, while Saudi Arabia was given a pass, even as they were probably the largest financiers and purveyors of world-wide grief.
We're very soon going to be dealing with the threat of Iran, and it wouldn't be surprising at all, if the Saudis received some 'collateral' damage in the process.
Frankly, the Wahhabis appear to be the worst of the lot when it comes to muzzies, but none of them have a right to live in my world. Stay well armed and safe............FRegards
In the sharia 'legal system' kafir (infidels) have absolutely no legal standing. In Saudi this poor woman wouldn't have been permitted to bring any sort of charge against her 'employer' at all.
If she had chances are she would have been charged with adultery and stoned to death. If she were lucky she would escape with a hundred lashes or so while her tormenter suffered little or no punishment at all.
While I support the war in Iraq, I came to the conclusion long ago that Saudi Arabia should have been destroyed just after Afghanistan.
Iraq was indeed a threat to US interests in the region, but Saudi Arabia is the source of the poison of islam. The sooner we wipe the earth clean of the House of Saud the better off we'll be.
L
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Ditto
IHMO, Saudi Arabia deserves to be listed in the top 10 Axis of Evil--PERSONIFIED!!!!
As an ol Nam Vet, ex fly boy, I concur.
"The bombing starts in 5 minutes." Ronaldo Maximus Reagan, may he rest in peace.
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