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by Douglas Murray
• September 21, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Ali Mohammed
al-Nimr, sentenced to be crucified, was accused of participating in
banned protests and firearms offenses -- despite a complete lack of
evidence on the latter charge, and he was denied access to lawyers.
Al-Nimr is also alleged by human rights groups to have been tortured
and then forced into signing a confession while in custody.
- Not only are the
Saudi authorities preparing to crucify someone -- in 2015 -- whom they
tortured into making a confession; they are preparing to crucify
someone who was a minor at the time of arrest.
- Alas not a week
goes by without Saudi Arabia demonstrating to the world why they
retain their reputation as one of the world's foremost human rights
sewers.
- Crucifixion is a
punishment which, it would appear, is not only Sharia-compliant but
also -- we must assume -- Geneva-compliant.
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Imprisoned Saudi dissidents Raif Badawi (left) and Ali
Mohammed al-Nimr (right).
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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva is an
organization that may be easy to critique, but it is very hard to satirize.
Ordinarily, if you told anyone that there was a place in Switzerland where
Sudan, Iran and others of the world's worst dictatorships and human rights
abusers have their views on human rights treated with respect and
deference, you would assume the script was written by Monty Python. Idi
Amin would make an appearance at some point to share his views on how to
improve equal conditions for women in the workplace. Pol Pot would crop up
in order to castigate those countries where living standards had not been
sufficiently raised in accordance with global averages.
by Burak Bekdil
• September 21, 2015 at 4:00 am
- Normalization of
relations with Israel could bolster efforts to balance Iran's growing
regional clout.
- "In the
Middle East, everyone at some point realizes that there is a bigger
enemy than the big enemy." – Israeli official.
- But in the Middle
East, reason does not always overcome holiness.
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The Israeli press reported in June that Israel's
Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold (R) held a secret meeting in
Rome with Feridun Sinirlioglu (L) Turkey's then Foreign Ministry
Undersecretary (today Foreign Minister).
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Israel-bashing and the systematic fueling of anti-Semitic behavior
have become a Turkish political pastime since Turkey downgraded its
diplomatic ties with Israel in 2010. There has been, though, relative
tranquility and reports of a potential thaw since June 7, when Turkey's
Islamist government lost its parliamentary majority for the first time
since it rose to power in 2002.
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