Saudi Arabia breaks world beheading record, UN human rights chief not happy

Yawn. Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and even Syria are not on the agenda for our bleeding heart activists. Too busy trying to expand war in Ukraine. That conflict is better for business.

There is also no mention of any sanctions against SA coalition and their oil and gas despite that Yemen destruction and casualties are like 100x of current russia ukraine conflict. Who we are kidding right? This show something about where our values lie. Some lives are more valuable than others as it seems.

I started a similar thread in Politics.

From the response, and the response here, I have to agree that most people don't care, sadly.

There is also the suggestion, that the saudi's chose their time for this outrage because social media was distracted by Ukraine.

There is a huge effort right now to Sportswash these middle east tyrannies with F1 ,gof and football all lending a hand.

Not one politician has been reported condemning what has happened in Saudi Arabia. Shame

Saudi Arabia is actively changing its legal system, they will define crimes and punishments rather than leaving them to the interpretation of each judge, this however will not change any law and associated sentence that is defined in the Koran, so no death sentence for drugs. But if you murder someone, you will be sentenced to death.

@wibbs “but they're not beheading people in the street as a cultural thing and as a function of modern law, they have labour laws against trafficking and slavery(the Saudi kip only banned slavery in law in the 1960's) and women can drive without a male family member in the car and don't have to cover themselves from head to toe to avoid getting a beating from religious police.”

1: They abolished slavery 30 years after they became a country, how long did it take the USA and Europe?

2: Check the present status about their actions on human trafficking.

3: Women don’t need anyone sitting beside them in a car.

4: what is the present dress code for women ?

5: ‘What religious police?

i find it funny when people call for a country to change, but at the same time they refuse to acknowledge these changes as they are happening.

‘Finally, Yemen is in the middle of a civil war, it’s not an invasion. Like any war, there are two sides involved and right now it appears that one side is refusing to come to any negotiating table, although they did finally release the SAFER thereby avoiding an ecological disaster..

Ah feck off

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”The Ministry of Interior implements the death sentence as a punishment for the offender / Hamid bin Safran bin Muqbel Al-Osaimi - Saudi - today in Makkah; For killing his infant son, Rayan, by hitting him in different parts of his body, and causing the death of his wife, Reem bint Hilal Al-Osaimi - Saudi Arabia - by intimidating her and escaping, which led to her running over from a car and her death.”

1: And yet we still have the top 10 of 167 countries that still have some form of slavery.

https://www.wonderslist.com/10-countries-with-most-slaves/

2: As Human Rights is a varied subject, they have a lot of bases covered.

3: It isn’t an issue, no religious police to stop and ask their relationship.

4: Don’t confuse laws with desires. No one is presently forced to cover up, they only have to comply with modest clothing. However, if they personally desire to cover completely, sure that’s their right.

Out lawing slavery in the Islamic world was due to Western guns and pressure.

It was deeply unpopular and viewed as an attack against Islam, which it was.

“Prior to Johnson's visit to Saudi Arabia, the European Union 🇪🇺 announced the classification of the Houthi militia in Yemen 🇾🇪 as a terrorist organization and included it in the blacklist of the European Union, freezing its assets and prohibiting providing it with funding”

it’s always worth remembering that there are two sides in every war.

True, but to put it in context.

”King Faisal had used this combination of respect and royal authority to obtain clerical support when he introduced television, ended slavery, and opened schools for girls—none of which the ulama had initially wanted. In each instance Faisal had compromised; television stations broadcast more sermons than sitcoms, slave owners were well compensated,”

‘Some of these “slave” families have continued to work for the same families, generation after generation but as paid employees.

I consider myself reasonably well informed about current events, and I genuinely didn’t know about SA’s involvement in the Yemen conflict until just now, reading about it. I’m embarrassed to admit that. I thought there was an internal Yemen civil war going on, and that it had led to famine and terrible conditions, but didn’t know much more than that.

I think it’s a combination of just not looking into it too much, and it barely featuring on the news. Obviously I think Saudi Arabia is a hellhole- a company I worked for years ago wanted to establish a base there, and I had major problems with that at the time. But then, I happily went off to work in China for a few months and make extra money.

It seems like everywhere you look there are corrupt, violent and barbaric regimes behind most of the countries that we in the west do business with. Of course it has occurred to me that the focus on Ukraine is somewhat biased, but the first major war in Europe in 77 years was always going to generate more headlines.

It’s all incredibly depressing :(

There's plenty of reasons that this war isn't getting as much coverage but its not down to MSM not caring enough to report.

Unfortunately the average person on the street has become numb to violence in the middle east. We've grown up on a daily diet of wars. If the Americans or Russians aren't there killing them then they are killing themselves is the prevailing attitude. And its hard to argue with it. From the Iran Iraq war, to the invasion of Kuwait, the constant back and forth between Israel and Palestine, the arab spring, Isis, Syria etc. etc. Theres only so long people can pay attention to these things before fatigue sets in. I can guarantee that if this conflict in Yemen happened before 9/11 there would have been huge attention on it but now its just thrown into the blender with all the death we've seen there for going on 40yrs.

Secondly, western governments, particularly the US and UK are particularly fond of Saudi money and Saudi Oil so they can pretty much do anything they want. If you again look at 9/11, the majority of hijackers were Saudi and the organizer and money man was Saudi but Saudi got a pass. The US and UK had too much to lose by taking them on. Too many arms deals, too much debt owed to them and too dependent on their oil. Western media follow their governments and generally report on what they're doing on a day to day basis. If their government is spending time on Ukraine or the war on Iraq thats what gets covered. When they avoid a conflict like yemen because they're severely compromised then it tends not to get any traction as the average Joe thinks his lot aren't involved so you're back to point 1.

[i]If you again look at 9/11, the majority of hijackers were Saudi and the organizer and money man was Saudi but Saudi got a pass.[\i]

wouldn't that be the same as blaming ALL Irish people for an IRA bombing in London?

@archer22, How does one continue to live with their heads removed ?

Sure it's their culture.

Try and do without SA oil and see how that goes. That benighted sandpit have the West by the short and curlies and they know it.

Jimmy Dore is a comedian, and yes no one in their right mind would take him seriously. That said a lot of what he says is true and you won't hear it on RTE or BBC.

What a silly question, you're picking one video where he didn't even say much, go and watch a few of his videos, satire aside come back and tell me instances where he is spreading misinformation.