Execution tourism

Pretzeluck · 01-02-2019 08:46PM #1

Saudi Arabia and Iran execute quite a lot of people throughout the year publicly. Many tourists visit these places just for these sights. What are your thoughts on it? Do you know any societies that do it? Where they all gather?

pleas advice · 01-02-2019 08:48PM

I thought this was about the US and their extraordinary rendition

01-02-2019 08:50PM

Pretzeluck wrote: »

Where they all gather?

In your head.

imme · 01-02-2019 08:59PM

Deleted User wrote: »

In your head.

Your reply combined with your username is the best thing about this thread.

TomSweeney · 01-02-2019 09:34PM

Tourists go to Saudi Arabia to view executions ?
You can't enter Saudi Arabia unless you are Muslim.. of course, they could be Muslim tourists, but I don't think this is a big thing.
I thought they only allowed Saudi citizens into the squares where they were executing people ?

I could be wrong though.

Your Face · 01-02-2019 09:44PM

Post your reply here.

Pretzeluck · 01-02-2019 09:50PM

TomSweeney wrote: »

Tourists go to Saudi Arabia to view executions ?
You can't enter Saudi Arabia unless you are Muslim.. of course, they could be Muslim tourists, but I don't think this is a big thing.
I thought they only allowed Saudi citizens into the squares where they were executing people ?

I could be wrong though.

I don't know where did you came up with that. Yes and I would like to go. I want experiences from peoples who have been there

Crock Rock · 01-02-2019 09:53PM

I don't know of anyone, nor have I ever heard of anyone going abroad for the purposes of watching a public execution. You weren't watching a medieval documentary by any chance and dream up the rest?

whisky_galore · 01-02-2019 09:54PM

TomSweeney wrote: »

Tourists go to Saudi Arabia to view executions ?
You can't enter Saudi Arabia unless you are Muslim.. of course, they could be Muslim tourists, but I don't think this is a big thing.
I thought they only allowed Saudi citizens into the squares where they were executing people ?

I could be wrong though.

You can go to Saudi, if you want to, as a non Muslim.

You're just not allowed into Mecca.

Pretzeluck · 01-02-2019 09:55PM

Crock Rock wrote: »

I don't know of anyone, nor have I ever heard of anyone going abroad for the purposes of watching a public execution. You weren't watching a medieval documentary by any chance and dream up the rest?

I go

super_furry · 01-02-2019 09:55PM

Or you could just spend the weekend hanging around outside the Crumlin Shopping Centre.

Crock Rock · 01-02-2019 09:57PM

Pretzeluck wrote: »

I go

Saudi or Iran?

Visiting Iran is easy enough for Irish passport holders.

Visiting Saudi Arabia is not the most expeditious of processes for anyone outside the Gulf Area. I highly doubt you'd be granted a visa for the purpose of viewing an execution. :rolleyes:

Pretzeluck · 01-02-2019 10:01PM

Crock Rock wrote: »

Saudi or Iran?

Visiting Iran is easy enough for Irish passport holders.

Visiting Saudi Arabia is not the most expeditious of processes for anyone outside the Gulf Area. I highly doubt you'd be granted a visa for the purpose of viewing an execution. :rolleyes:

Why not, why else they make it public.

biko · 01-02-2019 10:10PM

Pretzeluck wrote: »

Many tourists visit these places just for these sights.

I can't believe this is true, and without a source I don't have to believe you.

imme · 01-02-2019 10:11PM

Pretzeluck wrote: »

Why not, why else they make it public.

Yes, yes, why else they make it public indeed

Ireland is lucky to have you living in it pretzeluck!!!

Pretzeluck · 01-02-2019 10:18PM

imme wrote: »

Yes, yes, why else they make it public indeed

Ireland is lucky to have you living in it pretzeluck!!!

Thanks

Pretzeluck · 01-02-2019 10:18PM

corner of hells wrote: »

A friend of mine was in Iran years on business when he was forced to the front of a crowd where a man was about to have a hand amputated for theft .

Apparently the man was deaf and dumb and communicated by sign language.

The spectacle was horrific.

When his first hand was chopped off he screamed his other hand off.

Fascinating

mightyreds · 01-02-2019 10:24PM

corner of hells wrote: »

A friend of mine was in Iran years on business when he was forced to the front of a crowd where a man was about to have a hand amputated for theft .

Apparently the man was deaf and dumb and communicated by sign language.

The spectacle was horrific.

When his first hand was chopped off he screamed his other hand off.

Bravo took me an absolute age to get it!

Capt'n Midnight · 01-02-2019 11:18PM

super_furry wrote: »

Or you could just spend the weekend hanging around outside the Crumlin Shopping Centre.

https://www.facebook.com/Crumlinshopingcentre/

Ash.J.Williams · 01-02-2019 11:24PM

i'd actually like to apply for a visa and state that viewing the executions of homosexuals and to witness the treatment of women as 2nd class citizens is my primary reason to visit just to see if i get one

rainbowtrout · 01-02-2019 11:27PM

Pretzeluck wrote: »

I don't know where did you came up with that. Yes and I would like to go. I want experiences from peoples who have been there

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

enricoh · 01-02-2019 11:35PM

Wouldn't mind going to a good stoning meself, public execution is a bit much though!

JupiterKid · 01-02-2019 11:42PM

Well, here in the West people used to go to public execution a few centuries ago.

In less enlightened parts of the world public exections still occur, the primary aim to instill fear into and control over the masses.

Pretzeluck · 02-02-2019 09:53AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Well, here in the West people used to go to public execution a few centuries ago.

In less enlightened parts of the world public exections still occur, the primary aim to instill fear into and control over the masses.

Exactly, don't understand what's so bad about that.

Giveaway · 02-02-2019 09:55AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

In your head.

Chop Chop Square. Public executions always get a large turnout anywhere in the world

Wanderer78 · 02-02-2019 09:57AM

Pretzeluck wrote:

Exactly, don't understand what's so bad about that.

Do you like being controlled by fearful methods?

Pretzeluck · 02-02-2019 10:00AM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Do you like being controlled by fearful methods?

It's not only for control, it's for entertainment as well.

Wanderer78 · 02-02-2019 10:02AM

Pretzeluck wrote:

It's not only for control, it's for entertainment as well.

Should we be entertained by murder, and if we are, what does that say about the onlookers that are entertained by it?

Wibbs · 02-02-2019 10:03AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Well, here in the West people used to go to public execution a few centuries ago.

Outside of the second world war, where they happened a lot, the last peacetime public executions in Europe were in the 1930's. As a young man the actor Christopher Lee attended the last public guillotining in France just before the war broke out. Consider the next time you see him in a flic like Star Wars or Lord of the rings, it's not so long ago.

branie2 · 02-02-2019 10:24AM

Talk about morbid!

Sin City · 02-02-2019 10:27AM

Why anyone would want to see someones life taken from them is beyond me
Very disturbing indeed

But it looks like they are gearing up to be a holiday destination

Saudi Arabia is opening up to tourism. The Kingdom has a new, professional approach to attracting visitors, easier visa rules and, for the first time, the prospect for younger, unaccompanied women to see the country as tourists. But why would you want to visit? Should you go? And what are the challenges?

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/saudi-arabia-holiday-hotspot-tourism-visa-change-red-sea-jeddah-riyadh-a8241191.html

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