Posted on 03/03/2008 3:03:34 AM PST by kingattax
Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling yesterday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store’s fruit and vegetable section.
In a brutal murder that has shocked the city, the 25-year-old man beheaded the boy, who was out shopping with his mother — in full glare of shoppers and staff at Al-Marhaba supermarket on Sari Street around 9.30 a.m. The man, who is the boy’s maternal uncle, apparently killed the boy following a dispute with his sister and brother-in-law.
Eyewitnesses said that the man picked up a knife from inside the store and severed the boy’s head. The mother and a shopper standing close by fainted, while several other stood in shock and disbelief over what had happened.
A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Arab News, “The murderer was in a dispute with the boy’s mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy’s head in front of the mother to get back at her.” He added that the mother has been left traumatized and is in hospital. The boy’s father was at work at the time of the incident.
Following the murder, police sealed off the supermarket while forensic experts gathered evidence. Ambulances were also called to the scene. The supermarket reopened for business at around 1.15 p.m. “It happened so quickly. Before people could intervene, the man had cut more than half way through the child’s neck,” said Abu Muhammad, a grandfather in his mid-60s.
A Saudi till attendant at a nearby cafe said, “One of my colleagues went to see what was going on and returned shivering. He saw the kid’s body and so we gave him the day off. He was in a bad state.”
An eyewitness, who lives in the neighborhood, said that the victim’s family lived close by and frequented the supermarket. “I’ve seen the murderer carrying the same child and playing with him on a number of occasions,” he added.
“No one could bear the gruesome sight of the boy’s decapitated body lying on the floor,” said Muneer, a Turkish car mechanic, who works at a garage close by. “How could someone do such a thing? I just can’t understand it... I still can’t believe it,” he said, shaking his head.
When the store reopened, employees were still in a state of shock. A guard, standing at the entrance, stood frozen and oblivious to the rush of shoppers. Pain and anguish were writ large on his face.
Would you care to place a friendly wager on that? I would bet he gets no more than a severe lashing.Name your terms. Our murdering friend is going to be losing 10 pounds of ugly fat off of his neck.Of course, I could be wrong, which is the purpose of the wager. Betting on sure things is boring.
Agreed, but I think ours is coming.
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This is because you dehumanize Saudi Arabians. Saudi Arabians are just like you, they are perplexed by depravity as well. Now, sure, Saudi Arabian law is cruel to some (although I don’t know where you got chopping of noses as a common practice, source?), but all Saudi Arabians consider those under the precipice of the law so it’s completely different than random murder to them.
Hey all -
Look at Mohammed’s post here. He signed up yesterday to post this garbage.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are the only known countries that consider eye-gouging a legitimate judicial punishment. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, has stated that “any form of corporal punishment is contrary to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Far be it for me to dehumanize a saudi. They have their own version of ‘human rights’. And if they stick to applying their version of sharia law to their own citizens, frankly, I don’t give a damn how many heads, arms and legs they chop off. In chop-chop square, in broad daylight.
If there’s any ‘dehumanizing’ going on, the muzzies are doing a very good job of it without our help.
We aren't perplexed by depravity. We know where it comes from.
Nevertheless, islam promotes cruelty and murder. We've seen enough posts here from the koran that support that.
Perplexed about the source of depravity or not, we know how to deal with it; and it's not by standing back and wringing our hands, or keeping silent and turning our heads the other way, and it's not by letting a bunch of thugs in the name of religion fly planes into buildings, stone women who get raped and let the men go free, or force a bunch of girls to burn to death because they allegedly didn't have the *right* kind of clothes on, even though they were fully clothed.
Suadis have done just a fine job of dehumanizing themselves for the whole world to see. We're not the ones doing stuff like that, we're just saying what we see. If they don't like being called on it, it's up to them to show some humanity and put a stop to it themselves. Otherwise by their silence, they're approving of it.
IBTZ!
nox:This is because you dehumanize Saudi Arabians.
So the other shoppers in the store didn't react because we dehumanize saudis? Terrorists do this becasue we dehumanize saudis?
That is some of the biggest blame-shifting I have ever seen. Those people didn't react that way just because someone's opinion of them *dehumanized* them. They did it because they have been dehumanized by their upbringing. They did it to themselves and shouldn't be shocked when they reap what they sowed.
Bump....looks like Mohammed doesn’t see the unintended irony in his posts.
The "culture" in the ME has everything to do with this.
Cutting off the heads of people is a cultural "norm" as punishment. The guy was exacting punishment against his family for whatever reason set him off.
Only in Islamic countries is the concept of revenge killing seen as righteous
judging by the other people’s reactions.
Even the most barbaric people see a baby decapitated as something gruesome, so it's no surprise they were shocked
This guy was just plain psycho.
psycho = Islam: Just depends on your definition
Far be it for me to dehumanize a saudi. They have their own version of ‘human rights’. And if they stick to applying their version of sharia law to their own citizens, frankly, I don’t give a damn how many heads, arms and legs they chop off. In chop-chop square, in broad daylight.
Well said Fred.
The KSA and human rights? LOL... it's like discussing poetry with a pig.
A recap from my post here:
They ignore the UN Declaration of Human rights whenever they see fit, and came up with their own rules, in effect conceding that islam is not compatible with human rights no matter how much lip service they pay to agreements.
...It is clear that Islamic militants are quite aware of the incompatibility of Islam and The 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. For these militants met in Paris in 1981 to draw up an Islamic Declaration of Human Rights which left out all freedoms that contradicted Islamic law...
In 1990 the IDHR became the "Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam," and was backed by the OIC itself.
When it comes to the Saud swine and random murder, one only needs to take a look that their financial support of terrorism and terrorist ideology thru the years.
Are you part of the "some" who consider Saudi law "cruel?"
(See my post above, about the KSA human rights first)
Saudis perplexed by this depravity?
They should take a stroll down to Chop Chop Square... and ask why non-muslims are getting hacked there.
The real depravity is the KSA itself and it's "law" based on islam, ie sharia.
Take a look, for eg, at the lazy saudis who consider manual labor beneath them and import maids from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal etc...
The have their passports taken from them, are trapped in households with lecherous muslim men (as they are not free to go out alone to do as they wish) and when they are molested by the sexually repressed saud swine, they are simply accused of theft and end up down at chop chop square, for justice, Saudi style, after jummah.
Because they are women or non-muslim (often both) they do not have the same rights in a backward nation based on islamic religious and gender apartheid so their protests of innocence against a Saudi males lies mean little.
If they tell the wife of the Saud swine, the most common reaction is to get beaten by her in addition to the rape or molestation because she too, is just a woman" and her relationship with her husband is tentative under sharia, as he can divorce her as he pleases, leaving her as something of an outcast in islamic society.
So much for Saudi "law."
You're right.. its not random - its bigoted, unjust, intolerant, misogynistic, and above all - very deliberate. AND ISLAMIC.
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