Saudi Arabia - public flogging for insulting Islam

lightspeed

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/saudi-arabia-blogger-flogged-insulting-islam-20151911120952108.html


"Saudi Arabia has lashed a liberal blogger 50 times in public, despite widespread international outrage and calls for clemency from human right groups.
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, said on twitter that blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, was lashed outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Friday.

Badawi is due to undergo 50 lashes every week after Friday prayers, which will continue for 20 weeks until his punishment is complete.
Amnesty International says Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes on charges related to accusations he insulted Islam on the online forum.
He was also ordered by Jeddah's Criminal Court to pay a fine of $266,000"

The kingdom did condemn the recent attacks in France but perhaps that is just to keep their customers in the western happy. Judging from this response, it wouldn't probably wouldn't be a stretch to think that if someone drew a picture of Muhammed in the kingdom, they probably would get the death penalty.


At least there has been some response from the US though but Islam is still religion stuck in the middle ages.

Atlantic Dawn

It's the rules of the country, if you don't like them get out of the place, same with people coming here and wanting to have their own rules implemented on us.

donvito99

Hopefully the price of oil stays low, will put these boys out of business. They're running a $38bn deficit.

TwoShedsJackson

Repressive medieval theocracy strikes again.

Waitsian

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's the rules of the country, if you don't like them get out of the place, same with people coming here and wanting to have their own rules implemented on us.

The guy is a Saudi, he has no choice in the matter. He's trying to make the place where he lives better.

The mind boggles at the inanity posted on this forum sometimes.

PopePalpatine

donvito99 wrote: »

Hopefully the price of oil stays low, will put these boys out of business. They're running a $38bn deficit.

Unfortunately, they've got plenty in reserve. The Saudis have been making a big push recently to drive up their oil production and drive down the price of their oil.

The Bould Rabbit

Probably best not to exercise freedom of speech in places like Saudi really.

You won't beat the Neanderthal fuckwits in the religious police that control the place.

50 lashes a week for 20 weeks though.

Poor bastard.

Standman

50 lashes every Friday for 20 weeks, talk about a living hell. :eek:

ZiabR

1000 lashes... christ that is insane.

darkpagandeath

Thought they did 5 lashes a day till they were all done ?

lightspeed

article seems he sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes along with a fine of $266,000 so seems even worse than 20 lashes.

I hope for nuclear power to replace oil dependancu in EU and then maybe western countries can grow a spine and pass santions against these medieval countries.

bb1234567

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's the rules of the country, if you don't like them get out of the place, same with people coming here and wanting to have their own rules implemented on us.

No. Should black people have moved from america to africa during the 60's?

thomasm

That's sadistic and barbaric in the extreme. That poor guy wont have a back left in 3-4 weeks and they will literally keep shredding him. Always hated the thought and sight of whipping/flogging. Had to switch off 12 years a slave.

iDave

Someone will jump into this thread all concerned about generalisations made about islam instead of being concern about the poor lad getting assaulted regularly in the name of islam.

Buona Fortuna

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's the rules of the country, if you don't like them get out of the place, same with people coming here and wanting to have their own rules implemented on us.

So anything you disagree with here just has to stay that way, for fear of upsetting someone?

Don't satarise the Magdalene Laundries?
Don't campaign about the treatment of unmarried mothers.
Don't satarise church and state, that's the way the country is and if you don't like it find another one?

Glass Prison 1214

What a barbaric and despicable country it is.

JONJO THE MISER

Oil price keeps falling and this will hurt them good and proper, they deserve to be wandering around the desert like they were before, no place for that country in the modern world.

Grayson

iDave wrote: »

Someone will jump into this thread all concerned about generalisations made about islam instead of being concern about the poor lad getting assaulted regularly in the name of islam.

I doubt it. When people (like me) defend Muslims we say that you can't base your opinion of Islam based on that act as it is a very extreme version of Islam. That version is horrific. It's barbaric and inhumane. I think very, very few people outside of that sect would try to defend it. The guy didn't deserve even a small fine never mind a huge fine, imprisonment and lashes.

BlaasForRafa

Saudi Arabia, the home of the religion of peace, where if you say anything bad about it they lash pieces off of you.

AboutaWeekAgo

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The_Kew_Tour

And our parents thought getting a smack of a cane across the hand was bad from Brothers/nuns

PizzamanIRL

This is why I'm glad I live in a place like Ireland.

Waitsian

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

This is why I'm glad I live in a place like Ireland.

Yeah, now. The place wasn't so great in the not so distant past. Wonder why it's changed? Hmmmm.

Egginacup

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's the rules of the country, if you don't like them get out of the place, same with people coming here and wanting to have their own rules implemented on us.

And if it was Iran?

Beano

mod9maple wrote: »

Yeah, now. The place wasn't so great in the not so distant past. Wonder why it's changed? Hmmmm.

however bad it was you werent likely to get 1000 lashes, 10 years in jail and 266,000 fine for satire.

suicide_circus

The sooner these dark ages cnuts run out of oil thr better

Egginacup

lightspeed wrote: »

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/saudi-arabia-blogger-flogged-insulting-islam-20151911120952108.html


"Saudi Arabia has lashed a liberal blogger 50 times in public, despite widespread international outrage and calls for clemency from human right groups.
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, said on twitter that blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, was lashed outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Friday.

Badawi is due to undergo 50 lashes every week after Friday prayers, which will continue for 20 weeks until his punishment is complete.
Amnesty International says Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes on charges related to accusations he insulted Islam on the online forum.
He was also ordered by Jeddah's Criminal Court to pay a fine of $266,000"

The kingdom did condemn the recent attacks in France but perhaps that is just to keep their customers in the western happy. Judging from this response, it wouldn't probably wouldn't be a stretch to think that if someone drew a picture of Muhammed in the kingdom, they probably would get the death penalty.


At least there has been some response from the US though but Islam is still religion stuck in the middle ages.

:pac:

Don't be naive. The US and Saudi Arabia have an agreement Saudi Arabia sells its oil to the West and manipulates the price according to US wishes (John Kerry's trip before Christmas to the Kingdom to get them to expand production and sink the price in order to try and ruin the Russian economy).
The US in turn says to the Saudis "look we don't give a shit about human rights, gay rights, women's rights, kids' rights or any of that crap. You can massacre your people for all we care. We are only interested in buying your oil and selling you military equipment. Obviously once in a while when you behead some faggot or stone some whore to death or chop the hands off some worthless peasant we might come out and verbally condemn it but that's just for show. We have our arrangements with you and nothing else matters!"

Waitsian

Beano wrote: »

however bad it was you werent likely to get 1000 lashes, 10 years in jail and 266,000 fine for satire.

Specifically or exactly no, but the religious nuts in this country sure made the lives of an awful lot of people, young and old, a merry hell. Don't you agree? Industrial schools, Magdalene laundries, corporal punishment in schools etc etc. Is Ireland a good place to live now? Better than Saudi Arabia, yes. Was it always? No. Why? Religious domination of society. What changed it? Education, secularisation, and ultimately the liberation of mind and body.

Egginacup

lightspeed wrote: »

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/saudi-arabia-blogger-flogged-insulting-islam-20151911120952108.html


"Saudi Arabia has lashed a liberal blogger 50 times in public, despite widespread international outrage and calls for clemency from human right groups.
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, said on twitter that blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, was lashed outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Friday.

Badawi is due to undergo 50 lashes every week after Friday prayers, which will continue for 20 weeks until his punishment is complete.
Amnesty International says Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes on charges related to accusations he insulted Islam on the online forum.
He was also ordered by Jeddah's Criminal Court to pay a fine of $266,000"

The kingdom did condemn the recent attacks in France but perhaps that is just to keep their customers in the western happy. Judging from this response, it wouldn't probably wouldn't be a stretch to think that if someone drew a picture of Muhammed in the kingdom, they probably would get the death penalty.


At least there has been some response from the US though but Islam is still religion stuck in the middle ages.

50 lashes a week for 20 weeks....I doubt the man will survive that. Just as the slashes on his back start to scab up he'll be dragged back out for another merciless flogging and have them all ripped open again....and again and again.

Mesrine65

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Saudi Arabia, the home of the religion of peace, where if you say anything bad about it they lash pieces off of you.

Saudi Arabia the home of Wahhabissm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

happysunnydays

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's the rules of the country, if you don't like them get out of the place, same with people coming here and wanting to have their own rules implemented on us.

I'm sure they were people all over Europe who thought the exact same thing about the Nazis before the second world war. Ah sure I'm on this side of the border, doesn't bother me what goes on over there in Germany.

What we are seeing in Paris is a spill over of the madness that goes on in these stone age countries like Saudi Arabia. This form of stone age barbarism doesn't recognise international boundaries and it could just as easily directly or indirectly affect your life some day.