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Saudi Arabia beheads 37 citizens, pins one headless body to pole
Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/4/19 | Mordechai Sones

Posted on 04/23/2019 4:03:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

United Nations Human Rights Council member state Saudi Arabia today beheaded 37 Saudi citizens in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes, publicly pinning one headless body to a pole as a warning to others.

It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 individuals, including a prominent Shiite cleric whose death sparked protests in Iran and the ransacking of the Saudi Embassy there.

"The death penalty was implemented on a number of criminals for adopting extremist terrorist ideologies and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disrupt security as well as spreading chaos and provoking sectarian strife," Saudi Press Agency (SPA) tweeted.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry stressed the executions were carried out in full accordance with Islamic law.

The body of one of the men — Khaled bin Abdel Karim al-Tuwaijri — was publicly pinned to a poll for several hours....

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beheading; capital; ksa; saudiarabia; terrorists; waronterror
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To: Eleutheria5

Their country. Their rules.

It’s only our problem when they export that crap.

Then, if we ain’t using nukes they just take it as a sign of weakness that they’re duty bound to exploit. And the only way to change their minds once they’ve decided we’re weak, is to kill every single one of them.


41 posted on 04/23/2019 8:59:15 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: oldasrocks

Omg! You’re right!!! ( but they only think they’ll go to Heaven — ha!)


42 posted on 04/23/2019 9:58:58 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Eleutheria5

Sounds like that Islam crap just didn’t pan out for some people, huh?


43 posted on 04/23/2019 10:01:27 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Eleutheria5

A judicial system wlthout the death poenalty is, by definition, a failure.,


44 posted on 04/23/2019 10:11:41 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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The Three Amigos

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)

Column One: Portents of quagmires in Syria

45 posted on 04/23/2019 11:56:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Eleutheria5.

46 posted on 04/23/2019 11:56:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: catnipman; MinuteGal

“i doubt if one was enough ... they probably should have pinned all 37 headless bodies to poles ...”

Where’s Vlad Tepes when you need him?


47 posted on 04/24/2019 12:15:11 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

No proper trials at all, and it’s not the minorities in Saudi Arabia who are associated with international terrorism.

Such tolerance for the Saudis, and the world invaded Libya because they called Gaddafi a tyrant. Ridiculous.


48 posted on 04/24/2019 3:23:47 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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