Moslems killing different Moslems for being, well, different. Good job. Now, Iran will retaliate by killing Sunnis. Oh, wait, they already did centuries earlier when they wiped out previous Sunni converts, there by wiping out all “Persian” male bloodlines.
47 dead Moose Limbs. It’s a start.
Orcs murdering goblins. I don’t see a down side.
I’m waiting for the demonstrations especially by western leftists.
Surely now the west will add SA to its bds list!
When I started my MBA my plan was to study Saudi Arabia and then apply for one of my company’s positions there. I wrote several papers on Saudi Arabia. The clue it wasn’t for me was when a job came open and I felt compelled to research my emergency exit should things go badly. The reason? There were so many ways that things could go badly (prison or death.) I decided there was no way I’d go there, ever.
Back to the cleric’s execution. The Saudi government is fragile. They stay in power by buying off the populace and maintaining a state police that would make the Gestapo seem like Andy Griffith. The cleric was acting like what Obama would call a community organizer and organizing protests. The government, rightly, sees this as fomenting revolution and overthrow. They can’t allow anything like what here is considered a normal occurrence. A protest of any sort is as threatening to the Saudi royal family as a loaded gun.
From another point of view, though, the cleric certainly realized he was essentially committing suicide. The government took something like four years before they executed him. Most likely this was to allow him to disappear from the public eye so his eventual death wouldn’t draw too much attention. I’m sure the other dictators in the world are giving it two thumbs up and a hearty-well played.-
An active war of Iran against Saudi Arabia would make Chevron and Exxon excellent investments.
I hope they sewed Nimr al-Nimr up in a pig’s skin before they executed him.
Saudis do something good for a change.
Oh that is so racist! White robed sunnis killing black robed shiites.
Black-Robes-Matter!
Barbarians letting everyone know that religious dissent will not be tolerated.
So, what can we do or say that will help re-escalate this traditional arch-rivalry into another full-blown shooting war?
The soddies will probably need a lot of expensive military gear, aircraft, tanks etc, we should be ready with the order books.
One of these days, Putin’s friends will weigh in on this Saudi Shi’iteiness.
I still can't believe the idiot Bush left Al Sadr alive, when we had him surrounded inside a mosque.