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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Saudi Arabia set to crucify a teenager today for critizing the government
 
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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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"Man, why don't those Syrian refugees go to Saudi Arabia" :bahgawd:

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


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Fojar38 posted:

How is the US enabling them to crucify someone.

By not requiring them to tone down on the Wahabi-isms and not calling them out on poo poo.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Fojar38 posted:

If the US did that would the Saudi's listen?

It'd be more about going on the record and calling attention to their actions, with repercussions attached.

Complacency is just as bad as enabling.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Crowsbeak posted:

Hey what are the chances of the entire SA regime going down in flames>?

Isn't there some royal troubles going on in SA right now?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/saudi-royal-calls-regime-change-letters-leadership-king-salman

I mean, the guy making the claims doesn't sound any better.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Sep 29, 2015

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Smudgie Buggler posted:

"Liberalism might have succeeded in the ME if Israel hadn't popped up and given pre-existing despots the contrived excuse of there being unwelcome Jews in their backyard to refer to in suppressing and brutalising their respective citizenries."

Makes perfect sense.

Well.....no quite that Antisemitic.

But more than the British and others backtracked on their promises to the region and then started bulldozing a country out of already known inhabited territory to do so.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Sep 30, 2015

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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BarbarianElephant posted:

I think the Shah of Iran might disagree with you that the only path to power in the Middle East is sucking up to the West.

...but he didn't suck up to the West, and thus he fell.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Hey Saudis how is your stint on the Human Rights Council goi....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/saudi-arabia-insists-un-keeps-lgbt-rights-out-of-its-development-goals-a6671526.html

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Saudi Arabia is insisting the UN removes gay rights from the organisation’s Global Goals, saying it is “counter to Islamic law”.

The protest comes from the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, who told the UN General Assembly that “mentioning sex in the text, to us, means exactly male and female. Mentioning family means consisting of a married man and woman,” AP reported.

He stated Saudi Arabia has the right not to follow any agenda that runs “counter to Islamic law”.

The Sustainable Development Goals program sets a series of “ambitious targets” for the UN’s 193 member states, related to poverty, equality and ending climate change.

However, overt references to LGBT equality were removed from the final agreement, Pink News reports.

The goals pledge to ensure that “human rights and fundamental freedoms are enjoyed by all, without discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, colour, sex, age, language, religion, culture, migration status, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic situation, birth, disability or other status.”

:stare: Oh.

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