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Just yesterday, I published an article highlighting the latest deranged idea floated by Saudi Arabia’s monarchs to sue Twitter users comparing the barbaric kingdom to ISIS.
Today, I present to you a power graphic courtesy of Middle East Eye, which demonstrates precisely why the Saudis are so sensitive about the topic. Namely, because the accusations are true.
From Middle East Eye:
The Islamic State (IS) and Saudi Arabia prescribe near-identical punishments for a host of crimes, according to documents circulated by the militant group.
IS published a list of crimes and their punishments on 16 December 2014 to serve “as an explanation and as a warning” to those living in territory under their control in large parts of Iraq and Syria.
The document lists hadd crimes, which are considered to be “against the rights of God,” and includes fixed punishments for theft, adultery, slander and banditry.
Crimes deemed hadd and their punishments are derived from the Quran and the hadith, the collected teachings and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. However, with the exception of Saudi Arabia, and IS-controlled areas, they are rarely applied.
Any questions?
For related articles, see:
Another New Low – Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sue Twitter Users Who Compare it to ISIS
Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death for “Renouncing Islam”
So Who’s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. “Allies”
Saudi Arabia Bombs Second Yemeni Wedding in a Week – At Least 23 Dead
Saudi Arabia Bombs Second Yemeni Wedding in a Week – At Least 23 Dead
Saudi Arabia Forces the UN to Drop Humanitarian Inquiry Into Yemen Atrocities
Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel
Saudi Arabia Prepares to Execute Teenager via “Crucifixion” for Political Dissent
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Excuse me, but doesn’t Saudi Arabia chair the UN’s “Human rights” panel?
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Saudi Arabia has a lower percentage of the population in prison than we do.
Something the leftists seem to think is desirable.
Maybe we should take a hint from their justice system to get ours that low as well, just to please the left.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3337382/Saudis-deny-claim-kingdom-executed-8million-thoroughbred-racehorse-gay.html?ito=social-facebook
Saudis who paid for Obama and own Fox news?I believe they are also running the US military and all the converts in the white house to islam
Retired 4-Star U.S. Navy Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons was recently at the National Press Club. And his claims are shocking.
It appears that the Obama Regime has been FULLY infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism front group on every level. And that pro-radical Islam group is also in every level of U.S. security agencies. Lyons went on to say that “the transformation of America has been in full swing ever since 2008.” And when Obama campaigned on a platform to “fundamentally transform America,” Obama has done exactly that!
Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-four-star-admiral-makes-huge-announcement-obama-muslim-brotherhood-video/#ixzz3svtuktRD
Obama Signs Defense Bill Authorizing $500 Million More In Aid To “Moderate” Syrian Rebels
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/29/2015 18:14 -0500
Earlier this year, The Pentagon had a plan. Apparently, someone in Centcom decided that there weren’t enough proxy armies battling for control of Syria and so, what the US needed to do was spend $500 million on a new “train and equip” program which, if all went according to plan, would result in the recruitment of more than 5,000 fearsome warriors by the end of 2015.
Of course the CIA and The Pentagon had already spent years arming, funding, and training Syrian rebels but as it turns out, most of them either proved to be wholly ineffective or else became terrorists. Although the CIA program was still operational, the Obama administration thought it would be advantageous to have (another) parallel program in place wherein “properly vetted” fighters would receive a steady stream of logistical support, training, and weapons.
What exactly this new crack squad was supposed to do is still largely unclear. The official line – of course – was that they would fight ISIS and presumably al-Nusra. That would be amusing enough if it were true. That is, the US is widely suspected of providing support to ISIS early on in the fight and the FSA (which is explicitly backed by the US and its regional allies) formed an alliance with al-Nusra long ago. In short, if the US really was training soldiers to fight ISIS and al-Nusra, the program represented an attempt on Washington’s part to clean up a mess of America’s own making by doing the exact same thing (i.e. arming insurgents) that created the mess in the first place.
Of course it’s unlikely that the program’s real goal was to fight Islamic State. After all, the US needs ISIS to continue the fight against Assad and indeed, at the time of the program’s inception, Russia wasn’t in Syria yet meaning there was still a very real possibility that Islamic State would eventually march on Damascus. It seems far more plausible that the new group of recruits were simply the latest effort on Washington’s part to field a reliable anti-Assad army that could be counted upon to continue to destabilize the regime and perpetuate American interests.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but the effort was a miserable failure. By the time summer rolled around, the US had only managed to recruit around a dozen or so fighters. The group’s commander and deputy commander were kidnapped by al-Nusra in late July and in September, Centcom chief Gen. Lloyd Austin told congress that only around “four or five” soldiers were still on the ground. “Let’s not kid ourselves, that’s a joke. This is just a total failure,” Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) told Austin and Christine Wormuth, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
Things only got worse a week later when The Pentagon admitted that the “four or five” fighters still operating under the program were forced to hand over six “pickup trucks” and an ammo cache to al-Qaeda in order to secure safe passage to who knows where.
Mercifully, the program was scrapped in early October.
But that experience did not deter the US from providing weapons to groups deemed “moderate” by The Pentagon and CIA. In fact, after Russia and Iran ramped up their efforts to support Assad’s depleted forces, the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar stepped up the weapons shipments to the FSA and other militants operating in Syria. The US, for instance, air dropped 50 tons of weapons into the middle of desert last month. The stash was supposedly intended for the brand new “Syrian Arab Coalition” which, as we outlined in side-splitting detail, is a largely fictional group the US made up in order to hide the fact that the weapons and ammo really went to the Kurdish YPG, an outcome that would be decisively unpalatable to Washington’s allies in Ankara.
Finally, in the latest example of what can go wrong when you provide weapons to militants, the FSA’s 1st Coastal Brigade used a US-supplied TOW to destroy a Russian search rescue helicopter last Tuesday in the wake of Turkey’s move to down a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border.
Obviously, all of these programs have been remarkably successful which is probably why President Obama has decided to approve some $800 million in additional aid to Syrian “moderates” and to the government in Kiev as part of the annual defense policy bill. Here’s RT:
President Barack Obama has signed the Pentagon funding bill giving $800 million in aid to both “moderate rebels” in Syria and the Kiev regime. Obama also vowed to work around provisions blocking the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2015 on the eve of Thanksgiving. He previously vetoed the $612 billion bill in a well-publicized ceremony in October, arguing that the lawmakers dodged the spending limits by shifting money into the warfighting slush fund.
Although Congress then trimmed the bill down to $607 billion, the cuts did not affect the $300 million aid to the Ukrainian government, or the “zombie” surveillance blimp program that has cost nearly $3 billion so far. It also left almost $500 million dedicated to arming and training “moderate rebels” in Syria – a program the Pentagon had already abandoned.
Amusingly, “the NDAA specifically prohibits any US aid going to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Jabhat Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, the Khorasan Group, or any other violent extremist organization.” Obviously that’s a sick joke. As we saw last Monday, US-made TOWs make their way quickly to al-Nusra and what seems clear from the language in the bill is that Washington fully intends to continue to funnel arms to the FSA which is not only allied with al-Qaeda and who knows who else, but which is also now in the business of executing Russian pilots and blowing up search and rescue planes.
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