Posted on 07/14/2020 8:15:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1977, a 19-year-old royal adulteress and her paramour were executed in a Jeddah parking lot by the order of the girl’s powerful grandfather.
Princess Misha’al‘s fate has been obscured by secrecy and the Rashomon-like interpretations imposed upon it by observers.
In its outline (and the first stock interpretation we’re imposing) it’s that timeless human tragedy, the love story, in which headstrong royal daughter and suffocating traditional family square off over the seditious power of the feminine libido.
The princess, in a youthful arranged marriage by most accounts, took up with a Saudi boy while both were studying abroad in cosmopolitan Beirut, and dangerously attempted to maintain the affair back in the royal kingdom to the point of a quixotic (and obviously foiled) escape attempt. Whether under color of a judicial proceeding — the story says Misha’al refused to walk away by simply renouncing her lover and defiantly brought down the death sentence by confessing adultery — or simply on his own authority, the girl’s staunchly conservative* grandfather exercised his right as tribal patriarch to inflict an honor killing for the disgrace they had brought on the family...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Leni
Why bring those distant deaths up? And why now?
Talk about OLD news.
CheshireTheCat posts a daily report on historic executions from each day.
Really? Now that is an odd hobby.
The obvious question would be WHY?
The second obvious question: Who cares about that anyway?
Islam is a bloodthirsty cult.
Muslims are bloody savages.
I suggest you post your criticism and question to the poster, not me.
Leni
I know it is.
I just thought “Jeddah parking lot” was funny.
Quite a striking couple, imho. If only she'd agreed not to see him again, maybe they would've survived and escaped later.
Leni
Just looked up her photo.
She was beautiful and had a kno k out body
She might have been stoned one too many times though...
He looked like Fonzie in that photo.
Enough people care about it to support a website that you would have seen if you clicked on the link.
Some people post daily cryptograms.
Some people post daily kittycat videos.
This poster happens to post daily executions in history. Now that you know that you don't have to waste your time coming into a thread like this again, just like I don't waste my time with cryptograms or kittycat videos. That's how this site works.
Interesting. You see Fonzie, and I see Ken Wahl.
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