Oh, give me a break. This is FR, not the Funeral Home.
If I got my knickers is a twist about every beheading in Saudi Arabia, I would be upset a good deal of the time.
This beheading, as tragic as it is, is part and parcel of the society that surrounds it. Seizing your nephew as a hostage to settle a business dispute is an acceptable practice over there. The religious authorities would have no problem with such conduct. Given that hostage taking is acceptable, it is hard to understand how they get upset when a hostage is harmed.
If you think I'm that bad, press the [ABUSE] button and have my post pulled. I'd do it myself, but the nuns warned be about self-abuse.
If it is such a acceptable thing for a man to butcher his 15 month old nephew. Why the hell did it even make the news. I am by no mean pro Muslim. But this was simply a crime by a psychotic butcher who knew the most horrible thing he could do to get back at this mom was to kill her child. Such crimes happen here as well. True beheading is not the usual method. But stabbing, shooting, massive internal injuries from trauma, and other not real pretty means are.
And please cite the code in Saudi Arabian law which gives a pass for this crime. Being that it is an acceptable practice and all. Those spectators who were overcome by this event must not get out too much. Saudi Arabia is not going to be quite as dismissive as you are and this criminal will be executed. Hardly seems fair since beheadings are so customary.
I never said I thought you had abused FR policy. That is not my call. I said that to make a joke about the loss of a child’s life went beyond the pale. I would say the same thing if this happened in Buttcrack, Florida