The author fails to understand the significance of the Kaa'ba and Mecca.
Posted on 07/18/2007 11:54:49 AM PDT by JZelle
The authors of the war that nearly everybody thought was necessary at the time seem genuinely puzzled that so many Americans think all of Arabia isn't worth the life of a single American soldier.
If they're curious about why, the folks at the White House should read the stories that occasionally make it only to the back pages of the newspapers.
Item (London Daily Telegraph): "The imminent execution of a teenage maid in Saudi Arabia drew fierce criticism yesterday and provoked condemnation of the kingdom's prolific use of capital punishment. The case has brought fresh attention to the draconian Saudi criminal justice system, which is expected this year to set a record in its use of the death sentence."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“A bloodthirsty minority should not be the standard by which others judge the Muslim majority”
uh huh...
The author fails to understand the significance of the Kaa'ba and Mecca.
The Saudis are filthy, subhuman primitives. Nuke them and take their oil.
I typically will judge a group by the actions of the majority who sit by and let the minority of members do egregious wrong and have nothing condemning to day or do. Cowards all and just as bad as the small faction.
How about: "Silence of the Muslim majority in the face of a bloodthirsty minority tells us all we need to know about this false religion."
We have our own aficionados of the needle and the noose, after all, who sometimes gather outside the prison on the night of an execution to cheer when the electric lights dim.The difference is in the crimes involved. In the US, those who fry have usually committed the most heinous of murders.
In muzzie-la-la-lands like Saudi Arabia, failing to say "how high" when your husband says "jump" can get you the death penalty.
So please, try to restrain yourselves, oh High-Handed and Arrogant Liberal Ones, from drawing parallels between the death penalty in America and the death penalty in wicked dictatorships.
So, we all agree that “all of Arabia isn’t worth the life of a single American soldier”?
So, you approve of people who do wait outside prisons to cheer when they throw the switch on the electric chair?
Yup... obviously, Pruden doesn't get it. He writes
“A bloodthirsty minority should not be the standard by which others judge the Muslim majority, even though official acts of certain Islamic governments, eager to behead now and ask questions later, inevitably invite harsh judgment. We have our own aficionados of the needle and the noose, after all, who sometimes gather outside the prison on the night of an execution to cheer when the electric lights dim. But most of us, even if sanctioning murder by fiat, regard these as solemn, even sad, occasions.”
As for cheering from outside the prison... it might just be their way of protesting the anti-death-penalty protesters, who I definitely don't approve of, even though I recognize their right to be outside the prison protesting too.
The Saudi people--and Arabs in general--are neither subhuman nor necessarily filthy or primitive.
I don't know about Sam but I approve. However, most of the people outside of prisons when someone is executed are not cheering,they are bleeding hearts liberals who think there shouldn't be a death penalty, no matter what the crime. Some of the people cheering are friends of the victims, some are relatives who are not allowed inside the prison so do their cheering outside.
People who murder other people deserve to die, take a life and lose yours should be a hard and fast rule and appeals should be limited to 1 years. After that the mudering scum should be toast. Cheer? We should ALL cheer when they throw the switch on these murdering POS.
It would be cool if we could drill a horizontal well, elsewhere, that could tap into their wells at the source and suck out every drop we can get.
It isn't necessarily their oil...they're just closer to it.
Not to save Saudi Arabia, which stands to crumble like quiche in a crocodile’s mouth if Iran decides to be really belligerent.
Iran’s first target will be Israel, and to reach Israel, anything launched from Iran will have to traverse Iraqi or Saudi Arabian air space. Since the US is already in Iraq, any overflight of ANYTHING out of Iran is an unmistakeably hostile act. So to keep their profile a little lower, the airstrike would have to originate from southern Iran, and Saudi Arabia airspace would necessarily be involved.
Even the most defeatist government imaginable in Israel will not take such an assault without launching retaliation. And Saudi Arabia, willingly and with their permission, or otherwise, is going to be the unhappy recipient of the fallout of any exchange between Israel and Iran.
Saudi Arabia has the military capability of, say, the Netherlands, and about as much will to engage in combat. The House of Saud will be entrenched in their palaces and facing an internal mob which has the intent and will to take out what for years the rest of the world has recognized as a tyrannical regime, and once the palace guards are overwhelmed, the New Caliphate will be enthroned. Every blood or married relative of the House of Saud will somehow not last the following week, as root, trunk, branch, fruit, blossom, bud, leaf and twig of that family tree will be extirpated and eradicated.
The New Caliphate, being Sunni, shall then face, head on, the Shi’a apostates across the Persian Gulf. Once passions are aroused, there is no putting that genie back in the bottle.
The world had better have backup supplies of petroleum products available from somewhere, because, for sure, very little will be coming out of the Middle East for decades to come.
Ahmadinejad may yet see the coming of the Twelfth Imam.
And that was just a soccer game....
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