Current Events > Saudi Arabia plans to execute three moderate scholars

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-saudi-arabia-execute-three-prominent-moderate-scholars-after-ramadan

Hmm
---

Good time for Trump to get some good karma. Not that we'd hear about it
---

Odah was arrested in September 2017 shortly after tweeting a prayer for reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbour Qatar, three months after Riyadh launched a blockade on the emirate.

Odah : I hope we can end this war and live in peace with each other....

Saudi government: VILE SCUM! YOU SHALL DIE!

Antifar posted...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-saudi-arabia-execute-three-prominent-moderate-scholars-after-ramadan

Hmm

Nice of them to wait until after Ramadan.
---

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Good time for Trump to get some good karma. Not that we'd hear about it

he won't say a single word about this and if someone tries to ask him he would walk away without answering. he's so far up the Saudi's ass I am amazed he can still breath in there

Cursory research on these guys suggests that this is politically motivated and not because they had "moderate views"

Basically they said not nice things about the government.
---

being moderate and being against the saudi government is kinda the same thing. normal sane people are against the saudi government

Remember these are the guys we are in the process of giving Nuclear Weapons to.
---

Zikten posted...

being moderate and being against the saudi government is kinda the same thing. normal sane people are against the saudi government

Ehh not really. You can be extreme while also being against the Saudi Arabia government.

But you definitely cannot be moderate and pro Saudi Arabia government.
---

america will just pat em on the back "good job buddy"

not like america gives a shit about innocent lives
---

Pretty fucked up a dude is being put to death over a nothing tweet
---

'They will not wait to execute these men once the death sentence has been passed'

- Saudi governmental source

But

they shall be executed.... after ramadan
---

People think Trump is going to

1. Criticize Saudi Arabia

2. Defend journalists who criticize leaders?

You wish
---

What a great country, we should sell more weapons to them!

Would've been cool to see Trump have a spine against the Saudi's unlike Obama, but that was wishful thinking.
---

Trump, get off your fat ass and do something good for once.
---

imagine if nk did something similar

yikes. america would be reporting and condeming to no end.
---

region of peace
---

ModLogic posted...

imagine if nk did something similar

yikes. america would be reporting and condeming to no end.

North Korea literally does it on a daily basis...
---

Duncanwii posted...

Remember these are the guys we are in the process of giving Nuclear Weapons to.

what
---

This is the same country that literally chopped that dude up in an embassy because he criticized the government and nothing was done. Obviously when there is nothing done the same shit is gonna continue to happen
---

Also this:

A second Saudi government source said the execution of 37 Saudis, mostly Shia activists, on terrorism changes in April was used as a trial balloon to see how strong the international condemnation was.

When they found out there was very little international reaction, particularly at the level of governments and heads of state, they decided to proceed with their plan to execute figures who were prominent, said the source, who like the first spoke on condition of anonymity.

We continue to allow this to happen because we are a capitalist society, and we cant ruin those weapons contracts so they can continue killing in the middle east
---

What were the mods saying about we must respect other cultures? Or does that not apply in cases like this anymore.
---