Reminder: Saudi Arabia has beheaded 23 people so far in August.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

From hashish smuggling to sorcery. Isis is evil, but I guess it's better to be friends with the devil you know.






Beheadings Surge in Saudi Arabia as Authorities Execute 23 in August

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/beheadings-surge-saudi-arabia-authorities-execute-23-august-607759

[jeff47]

1. Given our recent history of botched executions

I'm not sure we can criticize beheadings. At least it doesn't take the victim 2 hours to die.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. I'm against the death penalty in all cases.

America is number 5 in executions. It's a shame.

[Jappleseed]

7. I bet the US is #1 by far if you count the folks the police

execute before going to trial or getting charged.

[NCTraveler]

17. And you would be wrong. nt.

[Jappleseed]

18. Not likely.

Estimates put the number of police executions at over 200 a year.

[Angleae]

24. Estimates of executions in China are from 4000 and up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment

[Jappleseed]

25. Yikes that is a lot

Stand corrected.

[Nye Bevan]

5. I would prefer to be beheaded by an expert swordsman

than writhe in pain on a gurney for a couple of hours, then have them attempt to revive me (so that I could be executed again) and then suffer a heart attack and die anyway.

Sadly, the US is really not in much of a position to lecture other countries about this issue. I really wish we could abolish the medieval relic that is the death penalty.

[raccoon]

19. +1000. It would be the pot calling the kettle black. nt

[JNelson6563]

2. Barbaric.

[flamingdem]

3. Read this thread for background on Saudi style Islam

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016101068

[ForgoTheConsequence]

8. Reading it now.

Thanks.

[LittleBlue]

6. Inconvenient truths and all that

We have a war against ISIS to win. Traitor!

[ForgoTheConsequence]

9. Saudi Arabia is also a Tier 3 country in terms of human trafficking.

Slavery (sexual and non sexual) are rampant there and the government does little to stop it.


http://m.state.gov/md105389.htm

[Zorra]

10. If I owned Saudi Arabia and hell, I'd rent out Saudi Arabia and live in hell. nt

[hifiguy]

11. Agreed 100%

Saudi Arabia is the anus mundi.

[GeorgeGist]

12. Good times, good times ...

[Dems to Win]

13. Bomb Saudi Arabia FIRST

If we are going to fight radical fundamentalist Islam, then fight it at its source: Bomb Saudi Arabia First.

ISIS is a Saudi creation; Saudi Arabia is ISIS's inspiration.

Saudi Arabia has financed jihad worldwide, funded the madrassas that teach young boys to be killers for Islam, unleashed terrorism upon the world.

Bomb Riyadh, the source of ISIS funding. The source of salafism (fundamentalist Islam) and the money spreading this cancer all over the world.

The Saudi culture is the same cruel, barbaric culture that ISIS imposes.

If the US must go back to war in the mideast, at least bomb the correct people this time. It's utterly pointless to bomb the creations of the Saudis, while leaving the Saudis in place with their oil billions and toxic ideology to create the next Sunni terrorist force.

[hifiguy]

14. Your logic is hard to argue with

The Saudis are inevitably the source of money and "inspiration" of all the Sunni lunatic movements. Wahhabism is pure poison.

[Dems to Win]

21. Good logic, but it will never happen, I know

I write it anyway, though. Just like to put it out there.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. The Saudis are destroying their own Arabic heritage

The hardline Wahabis cannot tolerate any semblance of idolatry and so 95% of Mecca's 1,000 year-old buildings, shrines, and monuments have been leveled. ISIS has done the same thing with shrines in Iraq like the Prophet Sheth Shrine in Mosul..

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-destruction-of-mecca-saudi-hardliners-are-wiping-out-their-own-heritage-304029.html

[Exposethefrauds]

16. Da USA has murdered 26 of its citizens so far this year

Having been to SA and Texas I would say they are pretty much the same both places are run by religious extremists, are hot and both places love to kill its citizens in what they call justice they just use different methods that have the same result. Both places i never felt safe unless I was carrying a weapon 24/7 too.

I would not advise travel to either place.

[leftynyc]

20. While I don't support the death penalty

I don't think that comparison holds up unless people are being executed for sorcery and blasphemy here (those are religious "crimes&quot . As far as I know, you have to convicted of murder to get the death penalty in the US.

[Nye Bevan]

22. You generally have to be black, poor, and convicted of murder,

preferably the murder of a white person.

[leftynyc]

23. Also true

But my point was we don't execute for religious reasons (obviously I mean we don't anymore - the Salem Witch trials come to mind).

[Exposethefrauds]

26. So your beef is they are beheading becasue of religious reasons in a religious court

SA is a Theocracy

Would it make you feel better if people were beheaded for non religious crimes?

[leftynyc]

27. Stop putting words in my mouth

It's juvenile and annoying. I'm against the death penalty PERIOD. Those that use beheadings are barely human no matter what the crime is. The person I was posting to was trying to compare the death penalties in the US to those in SA - I merely pointed out that you have to kill someone before you can get the death penalty here (I think there may be some exceptions made for drug kingpins but I'm not sure of that). In SA you can get it for having a bible. Get the difference?