Saudi Arabia crucified a man in Mecca while aggressively calling out Canada over human rights

Business insider ^ | 7.August.2018 | Alex Locke

[Cronos]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed a man by crucifixion in the holy city of Mecca on Wednesday amid waging a public-relations battle with Canada over human rights.

The man, Elias Abulkalaam Jamaleddeen, was accused of murder, theft, and attempted rape, according to Bloomberg.

Saudi Arabia, ruled by its interpretation of Islamic law, rarely carries out crucifixions, but capital punishment remains common.

Crimes in Saudi Arabia such as homosexuality and attending anti-government rallies have previously led to crucifixion sentences. Unlike the biblical crucifixions carried out by the Romans against Christians in antiquity, Saudi crucifixions usually involve displaying a beheaded corpse in public on a cross.

...But the UK and the US — two countries that maintain close ties with both Ottawa and Riyadh — have remained relatively silent.

[Cronos]

it is scandalous that:

1. The US and UK are keeping silent instead of criticizing the Sauds
2. That we are not implementing the same sanctions against Saudia that we have in place against Iran

[Ann Archy]

OMG!!

[the_individual2014]

I wonder,

What is the difference between being executed by electric chair, firing squad, gas chamber or being crucified?

Except for the different methods used, not a whole lot, your life is over and you die regardless of what will be done to you.

[Vermont Lt]

The crucifixtion in this case was more for display. They cut off his head first.

Kind of takes the edge off a little.

[Boomer]

One word. Oil. The Saudis probably own a lot of our debt too. Like a bank; they call in those loans and cripple us. They have leverage that we don’t.

[Nextrush]

So much talk about Russian influence over our country to distract from the real foreign influence over this country.

[the_individual2014]

He is dead jim.

[Moonman62]

We may not like everything about Saudi culture, but they are a lot friendlier to us than Iran.

Trump seemed to have a big influence on them when he visited.

[Moonman62]

Crimes in Saudi Arabia such as homosexuality and attending anti-government rallies have previously led to crucifixion sentences. Unlike the biblical crucifixions carried out by the Romans against Christians in antiquity, Saudi crucifixions usually involve displaying a beheaded corpse in public on a cross.

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Business Insider is good to include this detail.

[Gay State Conservative]

Don't know about other Freepers but I can certainly think of some murderers who deserve crucifixion.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The crucifixtion in this case was more for display. They cut off his head first.

Saudi beheadings are generally pretty quick and clean. It's the actual guilt of the condemned that I'd be worried about. I don't think they enjoy some of our legal niceties.

[Clutch Martin]

Let me get this straight, a Saudi crucifixion is basically a display of a dead beheaded corpse on a crucifix. But... It is not nailing a live person up on a crucifix and letting them suffer and die over a fairly long period of time until they expire.

So The Saudis behead somebody and then display the dead beheaded on corpse a cross as a reminder... Right?

So is the complaint against the Saudi execution technique of beheading or the display of beheaded corpses on crosses for public viewing?

[FreedomPoster]

Great question. I bet the SJWs in the Canadian foreign ministry would have a hard time articulating anything rational on that.

[rightwingcrazy]

“Crucifixion” is a very inappropriate word here, since it connotes slow torture. This is just, as you said, public display of a corpse.

[ransomnote]

Originally crucification took a long time and was extremely painful. Nails through hands and feet. You can’t breath while hanging well enough so you have to push yourself up by “pulling” on the nails through your hands while “pushing down” on the nails through your feet to let the lungs expand so you can breath. As the pain/shock takes over, you begin to suffocate because you lack the strength etc. Grisly. It’s actually a relief that they beheaded that person first - more merciful.

[af_vet_1981]

The US and UK are keeping silent instead of criticizing the Sauds

British forms of punishment

From as early as the Anglo-Saxon era, right up to 1965 when the death penalty was abolished, the main form of capital punishment in Britain was hanging. Initially, this involved placing a noose around the neck of the condemned and suspending them from the branch of a tree. Ladders and carts were used to hang people from wooden gallows, which entailed death by asphyxiation.

In the late 13th century the act of hanging morphed into the highly ritualised practice of ‘drawing, hanging and quartering’ – the severest punishment reserved for those who had committed treason. In this process, ‘drawing’ referred to the dragging of the condemned to the place of execution. After they were hanged, their body was punished further by disembowelling, beheading, burning and ‘quartering’ – cutting off the limbs. The perpetrator’s head and limbs were often publicly displayed following the execution.

[the_individual2014]

I read about that during my roman studies and yeah, better to have been beheaded first before all that, it was a final mercy they gave him.

[mewzilla]

This is really just about Canada’s mouth writing checks its butt can’t cash.

Canada has 2 choices: embrace the suck, or grow a pair.

Guess which one I think they’ll choose.

[Sacajaweau]

Dead is dead....

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

I thought that in multicultural Canada that every culture was equal to and as good as any other culture? So why are they criticising Saudi Culture?