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it is scandalous that:
  1. The US and UK are keeping silent instead of criticizing the Sauds
  2. That we are not implementing the same sanctions against Saudia that we have in place against Iran

1 posted on 08/09/2018 2:17:37 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

OMG!!


2 posted on 08/09/2018 2:26:24 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Cronos

I wonder,

What is the difference between being executed by electric chair, firing squad, gas chamber or being crucified?

Except for the different methods used, not a whole lot, your life is over and you die regardless of what will be done to you.


3 posted on 08/09/2018 2:30:31 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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One word. Oil. The Saudis probably own a lot of our debt too. Like a bank; they call in those loans and cripple us. They have leverage that we don’t.


5 posted on 08/09/2018 2:35:30 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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Crimes in Saudi Arabia such as homosexuality and attending anti-government rallies have previously led to crucifixion sentences. Unlike the biblical crucifixions carried out by the Romans against Christians in antiquity, Saudi crucifixions usually involve displaying a beheaded corpse in public on a cross.

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Business Insider is good to include this detail.


9 posted on 08/09/2018 3:19:52 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Cronos
Don't know about other Freepers but I can certainly think of some murderers who deserve crucifixion.
10 posted on 08/09/2018 3:30:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Cronos
The US and UK are keeping silent instead of criticizing the Sauds

British forms of punishment

From as early as the Anglo-Saxon era, right up to 1965 when the death penalty was abolished, the main form of capital punishment in Britain was hanging. Initially, this involved placing a noose around the neck of the condemned and suspending them from the branch of a tree. Ladders and carts were used to hang people from wooden gallows, which entailed death by asphyxiation.

In the late 13th century the act of hanging morphed into the highly ritualised practice of ‘drawing, hanging and quartering’ – the severest punishment reserved for those who had committed treason. In this process, ‘drawing’ referred to the dragging of the condemned to the place of execution. After they were hanged, their body was punished further by disembowelling, beheading, burning and ‘quartering’ – cutting off the limbs. The perpetrator’s head and limbs were often publicly displayed following the execution.

16 posted on 08/09/2018 4:14:29 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Cronos

Dead is dead....


19 posted on 08/09/2018 5:09:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Cronos

I thought that in multicultural Canada that every culture was equal to and as good as any other culture? So why are they criticising Saudi Culture?


20 posted on 08/09/2018 5:12:56 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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“That we are not implementing the same sanctions against Saudia that we have in place against Iran”

As Churchill said, “Nations do not have friends. Nations have common interests.” The interests of the UK and the financial and humanitarian interests of the US vastly exceed its interests in how Saudi Arabia treats its own citizens. The financial and military interests of the US in controlling an even worse evil, Iran, would be greatly at risk if our ability to use SA airspace and navigation rights were impeded.

Think of it like World War II. Suddenly, the US was “best friends” with murderous “Uncle” Joe Stalin. Times of need make for strange bedfellows. The Soviets killed eight of every eleven German soldiers who died during the war. Should the US and the UK have not allied with the Soviets because Stalin was a homicidal maniac? If we take the moral high ground, yes. What would the cost of that moral stance have been to American and British soldiers?

The reality is, Saudi Arabia pumps eleven million barrels of oil per day and has somewhere between 16-18 percent of the world’s known reserves. If the US and the UK enforced sanctions, what would that do to the world economy, and how many innocent people would starve to death as a result? There is a bigger picture to consider. For each additional dollar a barrel of oil costs, how many people in marginally surviving countries would starve to death? And, what would those sanctions cause in Saudi Arabia? The US and the UK cooperate with the Saudi regimen because it’s likely that whatever takes its place will be more horrible than we can easily imagine.

The Middle East is not a case of good versus Evil. It is a case of one evil versus a worse evil. You pick your poison and hope you’ll survive.


21 posted on 08/09/2018 5:14:32 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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This being an islimic execution, I knew there had to be a beheading in there somewhere. No ‘slime activity is complete unless somebody’s hacking off body parts.


22 posted on 08/09/2018 5:15:44 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Cronos

it is scandalous that:

The US and UK are keeping silent instead of criticizing the Sauds
That we are not implementing the same sanctions against Saudia that we have in place against Iran>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

NOPE!

Canada is governed by weird liberal fascists who are so confident of their superiority they are evenly smug.

The fact ius that that Canada’s village idiot Justin Trudeau
doubled down on his foot stamping hissy fit against Saudi Arabia in supporting his “minister” of foreign affairs Freeland, who is a femino-nazi prig seeking to impose a neo-colonial liberal morality of the Saudi Kingdom, concerning internal Sharia law that has been there over 1000 years in that area.

What a laugh to see Trudeau and Freeland attempting to pussy whip the Saudi princes! Buahahahahahaha!

Problem is though, Canada will now lose billions from its economy as the Sauds pull out their students, patients, diplomats, air lines, travel companies,and investments in Canada.

The new Slogan for these manic Canadian liberals and their neo-colonial superiority is : “ What Price Smugness?”

If you are a Canadian do not go to Saudi Arabia, your smugness may cost your head.

Freeland needs to be run out on a rail but Canada’s femino-nazis think this their “finest” hour even though they wallow in a pile of their own demented shit.


24 posted on 08/09/2018 5:26:04 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Cronos
Unlike the biblical crucifixions carried out by the Romans against Christians in antiquity, Saudi crucifixions usually involve displaying a beheaded corpse in public on a cross.

This distinction means they didn't crucify him at all. They beheaded him.

27 posted on 08/09/2018 5:38:47 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Cronos
Murder is a crime...so the Saudis - instead of letting the guilty party sit in a jail cell for 20+ years - gives the TAXPAYERS of Saudi Arabia a break. We should be as swift as they are.

That said, I don't like how they do it. But since I'm not a citizen of it, I don't have any say.

34 posted on 08/09/2018 7:25:34 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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‘Unlike the biblical crucifixions carried out by the Romans against Christians in antiquity, Saudi crucifixions usually involve displaying a beheaded corpse in public on a cross.’

This is akin to how various malefactors and rebels were dealt with in the UK until around 1800. Traitors and rebels had their heads nailed up over the gate of the town they were from to encourage others by their example. There have been a number of criminals hereabouts who ought have gotten the same treatment with their worthless carcasses attached to a steel pole and displayed along the interstate. Not everything in islime is bad.

42 posted on 08/10/2018 4:34:57 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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