Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The Secret Awfulness of Saudi Arabia

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The Secret Awfulness of Saudi Arabia

by Douglas Murray  •  October 20, 2015 at 5:00 am
  • Ali Mohammed Al-Nimr, arrested in Saudi Arabia at the age of seventeen, has been sentenced to beheading and crucifixion.
  • Last week, two Saudi human rights activists were sentenced to jail for illegally establishing a human rights organization, questioning the credibility and objectivity of the judiciary, interfering with the Saudi Human Rights Commission (one can imagine what that is like), and describing Saudi Arabia as a police state.
  • Karl Andree, a 74-year-old British grandfather and a UK citizen who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for the last year, is due to receive 350 lashes for unpardonable crime of being caught with some homemade wine.
  • British Justice Minister Michael Gove has now reportedly insisted that the UK could not possibly enter into a contract to train Saudi prison guards.
  • The naïve Western leaders are those who expect our countries to carry on with "business as usual" with a regime that sentences our citizens to flogging, and that beheads and crucifies political dissidents.
  • The naïve politicians are those who think the publics of the West do not know what a human rights sewer Saudi Arabia is, or think that we will put up with it. If that were ever the case, that time is over.
British citizen Karl Andree, a 74-year-old grandfather and cancer survivor, has been in a Saudi Arabian prison for the last year and is due to receive 350 lashes -- all for the crime of possessing homemade wine.
Is international opinion on Saudi Arabia finally shifting? For years, one of the great embarrassments and contradictions of Western diplomacy has been the intimacy of the West's relationship with the House of Saud. Of course, both Britain and America have some responsibility for installing and then maintaining the Saudi royal family in their position. Were it not for this circumstance, in addition to the world's largest oil reserves, the people we now call the Saudi royal family would be neither richer nor any more famous than any other group of goat-herders in the region.

Christians Persecuted by Muslims Even in the West
"Here we pray only to Allah"

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  October 20, 2015 at 4:00 am
  • "Convert or Die" — Graffiti on a restaurant, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • "Very religious Muslims are spreading the following idea throughout the refugee centers: Sharia law rules wherever we are." – Gottfried Martens, pastor of a south Berlin church.
  • "You have a cross on -- then you are also a Christian f***ing whore. Do you know what we do to people like you? ... You get stoned [to death]." — Muslim threats against Christians in Denmark, documented by TV2.
  • A British Christian family that was attacked says both police and the Anglican Church have failed to provide any meaningful support and are "reluctant to treat the problem as a religious hate crime."
  • Christian residents of Europe continue to be persecuted, often by Muslims allowed into Europe on the grounds that they are being "persecuted."
  • As Muslims grow in numbers, so do their demands -- assimilation in Europe is falling by the wayside.
  • "Before we put on a show of unity with Muslims, let's have them begin by respecting our civilization and our culture." — Giuseppe Berlin, Municipal Councillor of Cinisello Balsamo, Italy.
Asylum seekers in the Swedish city of Kalmar, where Christian refugees were forced to move out of public housing after being harassed and threatened by Muslims.

Last April, police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants hurled as many as 53 Christians overboard during a recent boat crossing from Libya. The motive was that the victims "professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim." Another report cited a boy seen praying to the Judeo-Christian God. Muslims commanded him to stop, saying "Here, we pray only to Allah." Eventually the Muslims "went mad," in the words of a witness, started screaming "Allahu Akbar!" ["Allah is Greater!"] and began hurling Christians into the sea.
Even when Christian refugees make it to the West, they often continue to be persecuted by Muslims, their fellow "refugees."

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