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i cannot remember a Saudi regime being so vile than the current MBS version. I'm disgusted that the US has any relations with these butchers. How can we forget the tortured death of journalist Khasoggi? 

Basically, Al Awdah will be murdered for openly not being fully supportive of the Saudi crackdown on Qatar 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/saudi-arabia-execute-scholars-ramadan-report-190521165816192.html

Al-Awdah, who has more than 13 million followers on Twitter, posted a tweet shortly before being arrested that contained an apparent reference to relations between Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbour, Qatar.

Riyadh spearheaded an air, sea and land blockade imposed on Qatar since June 2017. The move was backed by three other Arab countries: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.

"May God harmonise between their hearts for the good of their people," Al-Awdah said in the tweet.

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I got the below from a FB activist 

Saudi Arabia, by far the most brutally repressive government in the world, is sadly now at it again. As a result, a good man is now scheduled to die on June 4th.

Salman Al Odah was first arrested on Sept. 10, 2017 for a tweet. He Tweeted “May Allah mend their hearts for the best of their peoples.” Salman Al Odah tweeted this out of concern for the economic blockade launched against Qatar. This is a sea, air, & land economic blockade by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, & Egypt that continues to this day. Two of Saudi Arabia's main demands are that Qatar shut down its al-Jazeera News station & stop giving support to the besieged Palestinians in Gaza. Qatar has refused to submit to Saudi Arabia's demands. Daily Iranian food & water shipments by sea and air have greatly prevented most of the worst damage the blockade could have otherwise caused.

Salman Al Odah, an internationally renowned Islamic scholar with 14 million followers on Twitter, was arrested by the Saudi security services within hours of his tweet. During interrogations in prison, it became clear to Salman Al Odah that they arrested him for his neutrality on the Saudi-Qatar in his tweet,characterizing his failure to stand with the Saudi government as a crime.

As an Islamic scholar, Salman Al Odah is known for his progressive views on Islamic law & homosexuality. Saudi Arabia also executes people for homosexuality. People are executed in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft as well. People can be executed for pretty much anything in Saudi Arabia really. Even a neutral tweet.

Last month in April, the Saudi government executed 37 people in one day. A big majority of the executed were political prisoners who were part of the movement for democracy & equal rights for Shia Muslims. While the Wahhabist Sunni supremacist Saudi government completely bans Christianity, Judaism, & atheism, Shi'ite Muslims suffer heavy repression & are commonly executed for peaceful political activity. Despite rarely, if ever, being covered in the western imperialist corporate media, Saudi Arabia did have its own heroic Arab Spring with regular protests for democracy from 2011 until 2015. Some of the heroes of that movement continue to be executed. The Saudi government responded to some of those protests with full scale military assaults on Shia majority areas.

Additional heroes of Saudi protest are the political prisoners who played an essential leading role in winning a woman's right to drive. They are Loujain al-Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef, Ayendri Ishani Ridell, Urooba Jamal, Narissa Diwan, Atiya Jaffar, and Rauza Khan Hathloul. In custody, they have suffered repeated government torture beatings and rapes. They were arrested in 2018 immediately after winning the right of women to drive. This was because the Saudi monarchy feared they would make good on their plans to initiate a campaign to end the enslavement of Saudi Arabia’s 18 million women who are enslaved by Saudi Arabia’s women’s guardianship laws.

Salman Al Odah is one of three political prisoners scheduled to be executed at the end of Ramadan on June 4th. The two others are author and preacher Awad al Qarni and Ali al Omari, a popular broadcaster.

 

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Just now, David Dennison said:

When it's money v. human rights, money wins every time.

Our behavior as a nation in this regard is appalling.

i was referring to Surly .  On the macro, yes, regular citizens don't care about the rest of the world and neither do the politicians (but for different reasons). 

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1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:
9 minutes ago, NowThis said:
no one cares about Saudi atrocities.  

Uh, no. You're completely misreading the thread. Everyone agrees with you so there's nothing to argue about.

no, in your absolutist mindset, not "everyone". 

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44 minutes ago, formermav43 said:

Says “no one cares,” then condescendingly denounces absolute statements. Bold move.

I love when people jump into threads to say "no one" cares but they really just mean themselves. 

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1 hour ago, NowThis said:

no, in your absolutist mindset, not "everyone". 

Everyone who had posted in the thread so far you simpleton. There, now you can slip back into your comfort zone where you feel aggrieved and like you're the only shining light who understands the truth in a sea of fools.

NowThis: "No one cares." "I obviously meant on Surly."

Huckleberry: "Everyone agrees with you (clearly meaning in this thread so far)."

NowThis: "You're an absolutist fool!!!!!!11!"

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problem with you asshole is that you take one very very minor item and blow it to massive levels. Meaning you are not a person of substance.  

So this is my perennial Saudi atrocity thread, dedicated to the abuse of their own people and internal politics only. Stay tuned, it's going to be stuff that most here have never seen before. 

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30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Someone cares about Saudi atrocities so much that he's going to go around a Congressional block on a big arms sale to the KSA.  He really cares.  All the best caring.

Obama sold over $100 Billion in arms to the KSA and provided the KSA with military support as it began its genocidal war in Yemen.

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So I'm guessing Al-Adwah is not one of the 3 peeps that the CIA was warning were on the chopping block:  https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/502-perpetual-middle-east-geopolitical-quagmire-megathread/page/10/

Not sure where the red line in the sand is for the US to stand up to MBS, but everything Americans love about our standard of living is built upon the US-Saudi relationship (the petrodollar agreement that Nixon struck with them), so unless we are all willing to endure some significant economic hardship, it would appear that red line is so far out on the horizon we can't see it.

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problem with you asshole is that you take one very very minor item and blow it to massive levels. Meaning you are not a person of substance.  
So this is my perennial Saudi atrocity thread, dedicated to the abuse of their own people and internal politics only. Stay tuned, it's going to be stuff that most here have never seen before. 
The levels to which I blow things is none of your business. Are you Saudi police or something?

And you should just post a white flag gif next time. When you hypocritically own yourself the attempt to distract with hand-waving doesn't actually work.
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32 minutes ago, bernorange said:

So I'm guessing Al-Adwah is not one of the 3 peeps that the CIA was warning were on the chopping block:  https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/502-perpetual-middle-east-geopolitical-quagmire-megathread/page/10/

Not sure where the red line in the sand is for the US to stand up to MBS, but everything Americans love about our standard of living is built upon the US-Saudi relationship (the petrodollar agreement that Nixon struck with them), so unless we are all willing to endure some significant economic hardship, it would appear that red line is so far out on the horizon we can't see it.

This is all you need to know. 

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And in unrelated news, a Texas homeowner shot and killed a teen who wielded a paint gun.

Right you are, Ken.

 

Or, for the Baptists:  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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