No more stonings in Saudi Arabia.
If some STUPID American decided to try to sneak in some drugs or booze, then THEY would be sent home. There is NO stoning, at all, just an occasional hand/head chopping and the guy has to be REALLY bad. The Saudis use jail and prison more now.
We did hear ONCE of a head chopping. They always do that in the center plaza on Friday mornings. Their weekends are Thursdays and Fridays, their Fridays being their holy day.
We COULD have gone there to see the head chopping but I never wanted to be NEAR any of that. The guy whose head was chopped off had committed a murder.
We also heard of a hand chopping. THAT only happens when the guy has done the same crap over and over and over and over. The FIRST chop is the left hand. There were never trees in Saudi Arabia....thus no paper...thus no toilet paper. I did ask: well, what did they use: clean sand to wipe themselves. Yuck.
Anyway the right hand was for eating and the left hand for toilet stuff. NOW there is PLENTY of paper because the Saudis can import EVERYTHING. Plenty of toilet paper to go around.
Sometime, if the guy is a real ahole the FIRST hand chopping is the right hand and that is horrible because that means he had to eat with his toilet hand.
Remember, they had no water either to wash with...just clean sand. Double yuck.
Now the hand choppings are just punitive...and they can use paper to wipe.
Saudi women are NEVER publicly beaten, whipped or otherwise humiliated. The Saudi women's prison (only one) is for the very worst women who kill, steal and so on. They have their share of ahole women too, as all cultures to...but NO public humiation for women, ever, at all.
I know a fellow whose uncle from East Texas was working in Saudi——the oil bidness of course.
Several years back the uncle drove to a Saudi shopping center and upon leaving his car blew up from a car bomb.
The Saudi police tried to claim it was a suicide and not an American targeted by terrorists.
Thank you. Good to know.
Look..., I’m actually a person who understands the benefit the Saudis have been to us over the decades. When the oil cartel was in full swing, the Saudis interceded on our behalf. They talked sense to the other cartel members.
Yes, the populace of Saudi Arabia has been problematic. The 09/11 events were perpetrated mostly by Saudi citizens.
There is talk here of the leadership changing in Saudi Arabia being a good thing. I don’t believe that at all. The leadership does keep things in check, although it doesn’t do it with an iron fist.
You get a less moderate, less Western influenced king in there, and all hell would break loose.
Saudi Arabia isn’t perfect, but it is not angry at us, seeking to do us harm, and it’s leadership does not give us trouble around the planet.
It could be a hell of a lot worse. Iran is a great example of how we could screw ourselves big-time if we withdrew friendship and support from the Saudi leadership.
What I wrote earlier is reality. It’s something we need to be aware of and in some instances act on. I think the leadership in Saudi Arabia would understand fully too.