Saudi Arabia executes dissident Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, 46 others

[MariaThinks]

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Source: CNN


Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had executed 47 people in a single day, including a dissident Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, who had repeatedly spoken out against the government and the Saudi royal family.

Nimr had been convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges following his 2012 arrest.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/02/middleeast/saudi-arabia-executes-dozens-terror/index.html

[lastlib]

1. And We call these barbarian bastards ALLIES??!?

[MariaThinks]

2. there is something seriously wrong and what a cultural difference

any moderate talkers are executed

[dhill926]

3. this is seriously fucked up....

[SoapBox]

4. ...savages.

[JackRiddler]

23. Allies. A satellite state, even.

US owns and supports Saudi actions since 1944.

They could behead more people than ISIS - they have - and nothing changes. They will be "armed against ISIS," which is to say given replacements for the arms they handed over to jihadis who end up recycled as ISIS. If there was a democratic secular uprising (science fiction, I know), the US would intervene for the crown.

[saltpoint]

5. Our friends, the Saudis. eom

[corkhead]

9. yup

[47of74]

21. Bush's bestest buddies in the whole universe.

[former9thward]

22. Its pretty bi-partisan...

[JackRiddler]

24. Shhh, we want to pretend it's only Bushes!

[truth2power]

31. Here's the Common Dreams article...

http://commons.commondreams.org/t/outrage-follows-saudi-arabias-execution-of-nearly-50-prisoners/16952

Well, lookee here...if you scroll down in the comments section, here's another pic of Obama with the king..



Ha hahaha. Just a couple'a dudes, having a good time. But wait...there's nothing. Nothing that should ever cause anyone to disrespect Obama. Nope. Even him consorting with the scum of the earth.

Meanwhile, Assad killed his own people...his own people...his own people...

I am so sick to death of the hypocrisy I could just vomit. Ugh!

[Warren Stupidity]

6. At least it wasn't a bunch of insane fundamentalist religious fanatics doing

the beheadings.


Oh wait....,

[SoLeftIAmRight]

7. I smell the BFEE

bandar bush

[CJCRANE]

8. Our main ally in the war on terror and spreading democracy.

[polly7]

10. I'm starting to really hate these *'es. nt.

[JackRiddler]

25. You shouldn't.

We are in the United States. We should be, not hating, but fighting those here - not Muslims, for the most part - who support these *'es.

[Paper Roses]

11. I have no trouble acccepting other religions but this action is beyond the pale.

Sick! And these are our friends? This is too much to comprehend.

[MariaThinks]

13. i can accept other religions if they accept mine.

if the other religion is not tolerant or willing to support my religion, it becomes a one way parasitic streak - much like destructive cults.

[thesquanderer]

12. Selling us cheap oil buys a lot of latitude.

Though our own death penalty and shoot-first-ask-questions-later problems don't buy us as much moral high ground as we might like.

[lastlib]

18. aye, there's the rub.......

We have GOT to abolish these barbaric practices, or we are little better than the Middle Easterners.

[JackRiddler]

26. Their oil is currently irrelevant to "us."

It's sold elsewhere. US reliance on ME oil is far down from the 1970s. Sponsoring the murderous feudal oil kingdoms is a geostrategy for exerting control over those to whom it sells, meaning Europe above all but also the rest of the market including China. In terms of the history of US foreign policy, the Saudi regime occupy the position they do so that Arab nationalists wouldn't.

[thesquanderer]

27. Good point, but the bottom line is still... oil. (n/t)

[JackRiddler]

29. Not quite.

The bottom line is power.

[flamingdem]

14. Seems like they killed many this time

to dilute the impact of the Shia cleric.

[MariaThinks]

15. i wonder how many women were killed - maybe just for exposing their elbows

or being beside a man.

[DaveT]

16. At some point you wake up

and realize that the moralizing stories you keep hearing from the Blood Bath that would come to Vietnam if we left, through the incubators in Kuwait, to the cutting off of heads by ISIS are all propaganda tools. Some are true, some are stretchers and some are bald faced lies, but their truth or falsity has nothing to do with why you hear them. Certainly not to stop such atrocities from happening, as you can see by all the brutality done by our "friends" like the Saudis.

Could somebody please explain how ISIS or Assad is any worse than the Saudis?

[JackRiddler]

28. "ISIS" is the Saudis

That's reductive, but true enough: "ISIS" is the result of the Saudi regime indoctrinating, dispatching, arming and financing foreign jihadis in Iraq and Syria, who end up recycled into "ISIS," which the US then bombs, or one of the other more "moderate" jihadi militias, which the US sometimes supports openly. And this Saudi practice can't be sold as anything other than also a U.S. policy, since it is done while Saudi enjoys the full backing without criticism from the U.S. U.S. sells the arms with which Saudi Arabia also conducts its simultaneous and official mass-murder in Yemen. U.S. says nothing about Saudi intervention in Bahrain. If we want this to be different, we need to stop othering and hating -- as detestable as this regime and the extremist thought it pushes and many of the people thus produced may be. Change begins at home with things we might change, like ending the longstanding arms and support for this regime, and moving to shut down the ME arms market. Otherwise "we" also own these barbarities.

[saidsimplesimon]

17. Maria, I feel powerless.

Yes, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are recognized as our allies. Their actions both sadden and sicken me. Those who claim religious superiority are hypocrites when they replace "Tho shalt not kill" with "an eye for an eye".

I am equally disturbed that the US continues to enforce the death penalty. We are not leading by example. imo

[Smarmie Doofus]

19. I bet NBC Nightly news leads w. this tonite.

And it'll be all over the corporate yakfests tomorrow am.

Not.

[bdwker]

30. Iran is going to get even against them.

[BooScout]

32. Locking...

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