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Saudi Arabia advertises for swordsmen as execution rate soars
Middle East Online ^ | 05/20/2015

Posted on 05/20/2015 12:24:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

With more people being executed since the start of 2015 than the whole of 2014, Saudi authorities are looking for more men to handle the execution blades, even exempting them 'from the usual entrance exams'.

Saudi Arabia advertised job vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday, after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole of 2014.

The civil service ministry said that no qualifications were necessary and that applicants would be exempted from the usual entrance exams for swordsmen.

It said that as well as beheadings, the successful candidates would be expected to carry out amputations ordered by the courts under the kingdom's strict version of Islamic Sharia law.

Amputation of one or both hands is a routine penalty for theft. Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death.

Most executions are carried out by beheading, but a few are carried out by firing squad, stoning or crucifixion.

All are carried out in public and video footage sometimes appears on the Internet despite a ban on filming.

In January, a video was posted of a Burmese woman protesting her innocence before being beheaded by a swordsman on a public street in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. The white-robed executioner has her lie down on the ground, near a pedestrian crossing, then severs her head with a curved sword.

The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said that Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim had been sentenced to death for killing her husband's six-year-old daughter.

The vacancies were advertised on the ministry's website in the "religious jobs" section.

Last year, Saudi Arabia executed 87 people, ranking it third in the world for use of the death penalty.

Already this year, it has put 85 people to death in what human rights group Amnesty International has described as a "macabre spike".

On Tuesday, a convicted serial rapist of young girls was beheaded in Riyadh, SPA reported.

On a visit to Riyadh this month, French President Francois Hollande said capital punishment "should be banned". The Saudi interior ministry, however, insists the death penalty is an important deterrent.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: executioners; islam; saudiarabia; swordsmen
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1 posted on 05/20/2015 12:24:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Deera Square in Riyadh where public executions take place, known as "chop chop square"
2 posted on 05/20/2015 12:25:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Summon the Invisible Swordsman.


3 posted on 05/20/2015 12:26:03 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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4 posted on 05/20/2015 12:28:23 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if a Christian could get the job?

hehe

I wouldn’t mind beheading Satanic muslims for a living!


5 posted on 05/20/2015 12:32:57 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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6 posted on 05/20/2015 12:33:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Talk about your shovel ready jobs!!!!


7 posted on 05/20/2015 12:34:17 PM PDT by Paul46360
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To: TexasFreeper2009

GOOD POINT!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 05/20/2015 12:34:37 PM PDT by Paul46360
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To: SeekAndFind
Chop-Chop Square! Brings back memories. Don't be shopping in the big Souk on a Friday, Infidels. You are liable to be grabbed by the Religious Police (The "Mutts") in order to serve as a witness to a beheading.

You see, the ultimate punishment is to gaze upon the face of an Infidel before the sword of Allah falls. If you are really a bad dude, the Infidel face will be a woman with blue eyes! Say, I wonder if the Saudis have thought of encouraging illegal Mexican immigration .... you know .... to do the jobs Saudis won't do?

Saudis ain't what you would call enthusiastic about work, anyway. As one of my Saudi guys said to me, "Hey, we didn't work when we were poor, and we're not about to start now that we're rich. That's what you people are for!"

9 posted on 05/20/2015 12:34:43 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Hi! We're having a constitutional crisis. Come on over!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I wonder if a Christian could get the job?

Ya gotta be able to work fast.

"Hurry, they're lined up around the block. Come on, chop chop!"

10 posted on 05/20/2015 12:34:54 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Soooo what are the benefits? Is this unionized? Is there Overtime pay? Is Experience Necessary or is this on the job training? Would I have to wear a uniform? Is this an Equal Opportunity Employer? Just so many questions. =)


11 posted on 05/20/2015 12:36:00 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Hmmm, whats the pay? I heard Bill Clinton considers himself quite the Swordsmen, speaking engagments my dry up soon and he may need a job.
12 posted on 05/20/2015 12:37:04 PM PDT by ABN 505
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To: SeekAndFind

Where’s the pic from Blazing Saddles? “Thir, I couldn’t pothibly fit him in before Tuethday...”


13 posted on 05/20/2015 12:41:49 PM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Kenny Bunk

They still paying $100,000 for converting or has that gone up?


14 posted on 05/20/2015 1:00:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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15 posted on 05/20/2015 1:04:43 PM PDT by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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Hasan chop!


16 posted on 05/20/2015 1:09:37 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Well, I yelled "FIRE!" because no one would save me if I yelled "CHOCOLATE!")
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RE: They still paying $100,000 for converting or has that gone up?

Let’s say they did pay for converting, does one have to return the money for un-converting?

Or is it the case that once you convert, you can’t get out?


17 posted on 05/20/2015 1:16:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: BlueLancer

Know why they are looking? They were forced to raise the minimum wage to meet state laws. Then demand as well as quality went down and they fired a bunch of people, leaving only the blood cleaner and the body removers. Problem with that was neither was qualified and training programs were discontinued. So they are outsourcing it.

Now they are trying to bring it back in house but I heard that most qualified executioners are getting better pay and benefits with ISIS.


18 posted on 05/20/2015 1:16:50 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Ramius; All
Sword Ping? 😒

19 posted on 05/20/2015 1:38:46 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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If, God forbid, I ever found myself about to pass under the Saudi execution sword, I want the guy at the other end to know what he’s doing. I don’t want the last words I hear to be the Arabic for “Let me try, Boss! I always wanted to chop a head off!”


20 posted on 05/20/2015 1:51:23 PM PDT by RichInOC ("In the name of Allah, The Inexorable, The Irresistible...")
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