Saudi Arabia Sues Twitter User Who Compared it to ISIS
Saudi Arabia is arguably just ISIS with diplomatic skills
November 25, 2015
We all know that the Islamic State has nothing to do with
Islam. It's just a bunch of psychos that "hijacked" a "great religion".
Unlike the Saudis, the guardians of the two holy cities that Mohammed
seized while he was founding the first Islamic State with a reign of
terror that culminated in mass murder, sex slavery and ethnic cleansing.
And then there's the extremely inconvenient history of the Saudi Arabian National Guard which helped make the Saudi state possible.
Ashraf Fayadh faces a likely beheading, which is also ISIS'
favorite method of beheading. So on what basis will the Saudis sue
someone on Twitter for pointing out the obvious?
Both ISIS and the Saudis kill those they consider apostates. As did Mohammed. That is a standard Sharia approach in Islamic law. Even supposedly moderate Muslim figures have danced around the question of the death penalty for apostasy.
Of course the Saudis are offended because they consider their chain of religious authority more than the Islamic State's. And ISIS thinks the same of them. In Islam, theological debates tend to be settled by force. And Saudi Arabia and ISIS are both examples of that.
We all know that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. Does Saudi Arabia have anything to do with Islam?
And then there's the extremely inconvenient history of the Saudi Arabian National Guard which helped make the Saudi state possible.
It’s the revival of the Ikhwan, the armies of Wahhabi bandit raiders who united Saudi Arabia under the House of Saud by terrorizing Sunni rivals and Shiite Muslims. The ISIS atrocities of today were business as usual for the Ikhwan who referred to other Muslims as infidels, invaded Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, killed some 400,000 people and created a million refugees.So Saudi Arabia is arguably just ISIS with diplomatic skills and overseas investments. But it doesn't like anyone comparing its beheadings of apostates to ISIS' beheading of apostates.
(Similar events had also taken place earlier such as the Wahhabi sack of Kerbala in Iraq in 1802. A contemporary description relates, “The elderly, women, and children—everybody died by the barbarians’ sword.”)
Saudi Arabia's justice ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down on Friday to a Palestinian poet to the punishments meted out by Islamic State, a major government-aligned newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"The justice ministry will sue the person who described ... the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being `ISIS-like'," the newspaper Al-Riyadh quoted a source in the justice ministry as saying.
On Friday, a Saudi court sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy - abandoning his Muslim faith - according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch.
Both ISIS and the Saudis kill those they consider apostates. As did Mohammed. That is a standard Sharia approach in Islamic law. Even supposedly moderate Muslim figures have danced around the question of the death penalty for apostasy.
Of course the Saudis are offended because they consider their chain of religious authority more than the Islamic State's. And ISIS thinks the same of them. In Islam, theological debates tend to be settled by force. And Saudi Arabia and ISIS are both examples of that.
We all know that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. Does Saudi Arabia have anything to do with Islam?
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