was tweet critical of KSA or Islam?
the bonesaw bin salmn is at it again.
How is it even possible in the twenty first century for blasphemy to be a crime? What sort of personality requires punishment for disrespecting a non-existent imaginary friend?
Oil.
America gives zero shits about human rights if you willingly give up your natural resources.
We’re arming over 80% of the world’s dictatorships, which makes us the least democratic nation in the world if you see democracy as a universal principle.
What do you expect? It’s kind of easy if leadership believes that the entity in question is not non-existent, imaginary, nor a friend.
Yeah, how much of a bitch does god have to be to allow blasphemy laws?
I’m just gonna say Muslim country and click the article.
Nevermind could have read the comments. Saudi.
It’s our client state, FFS. Dude was an indetured servant for royalty.
It’s not a Muslim country who has more prisoners than any other nation through legalized slavery under the 13th Amendment.
This is about capitalism and empire, not religion.
Your whataboutism has shown me the light. I suddenly love sharia law.
its S.A or PAKIstan,
Hindu mobs are killing people on rumors they ate a cow. Christians are still burning “witches” in Africa. There’s nothing special about Muslims.
Religious fundamentalists enabled by wealthy oil producers and supine complicity.
Before even opening. Muslim country, right?
I would have guessed christian
Saudis
At the current rate western countries are adopting fascism, that will no longer be a safe bet in a few years.
Always is.
In a year, it will be a toss up between the US and a muslim country.
One public execution and there’ll be almost no difference. Less than two months to go now…
Elections? Bro, regardless of the results, the Republicans aren’t conceding power.
Not elections. Kegsbreath announced the first execution by firing squad and he wants to have it broadcast for everyone to see. It’s supposed to happen on Dec 3rd, and Trump was the last stamp of approval on it. He approved it.
Most people live in Muslim countries, if I had to guess. In particular if they don’t live in the west where death penalty is banned/rare.
Your hate posting is thinly veiled racism.
“most people” is this a joke
Islam is not a race.
Tell that to racists.
Hating people from different countries for their barbaric culture is. See the commenter above calling themselves enlightened compared to them.
explain to me how hating someone for their behaviour is racist?
Pretty hard to argue against that when they are committing real murder to punish someone for an imaginary crime.
My barrier for enlightenment in this case is the abolition of the death penalty. I absolutely stand behind that and will die on that hill.
Hating a culture or religion for its backwards, antiquated attitude to people being different is not racism. Islam is not a race nor a country.
At most it would be islamophobia, but rightfully pointing out shortcomings of a culture or religion hardly falls into the phobia category.
It kinda is, if it’s based off of anbundiffernetiated stereotype of adherents of the religion.
I’m going to assume that you don’t have any problems with Alevi muslims, the Hui, and probably fine with Muslims from Indonesia too.
But by focusing on an incorrect stereotype, well if you feel better giving it another name: bully for you. But racism is basically just a synonym for xenophobia,
An incorrect stereotype you say… So it’s not true that a number of Muslim countries - that is, where religion and governance is merged, therefore these countries are legally, culturally and religiously Muslim - still execute people for being gay, or, in this instance, committing the oh so horrible crime of blasphemy?
It’s not a stereotype, buddy, it’s the reality. Pretty much every single country that is Muslim - and by that I mean the above definition, i.e. state religion being Islam, laws and regulations controlled by religious positions, et cetera - still has these backwards laws. Therefore it isn’t really a stretch to immediately presume whenever such news arrive that yes, it’s one of those countries.
Want this stance to be an incorrect stereotype? Go change those countries in question to stop executing people for the smallest infractions against your imaginary sky daddy. Then we can talk.
So you’re not including culturally and socially Muslim countries which make up a huge proportion of the world’s Muslims?
Indonesia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Türkiye; none of them count as Muslim for you?
Because those countries don’t execute people for blasphemy (even if some have their own human rights problems).
Nor for being gay.There are plenty of culturally Christian nations in Africa who have the death penalty for homosexuality. Yet I presume you can see enough variation in Christians across the world to not decide that that is a reality of all Christians. Maybe you’ll claim that since few-no governments are explicitly Christian that it doesn’t count.
But yeah, if you said Islamic theocratic nation, I would agree with you.
But then I think that Indonesia, Uzbekistan, and Türkiye count as Muslim nations.And also, this is the comment I replied to; not a criticism of theocracy.
Hating a culture or religion for its backwards, antiquated attitude to people being different is not racism. Islam is not a race nor a country.
So all those Muslims from Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Istanbul, and the Alevi, Hui, Kurds, are all included in your comment. And they’re the people I’m saying you’ve been misrepresentating in comments like that.
Your virtue signaling is blocking progress to a world without this type of barbarism in it.
It’s easier to chalk this up as a “religious thing” instead of an American client state under a brutal monarchy that killed their foreign imported slave.
Stop sending them our tax dollars for a start. Stop sending them bombs to commit genocide in Yemen. Stop giving them a greenlight to chop up reporters with bonesaws.
This isn’t religion. It’s capitalism and empire.
And just to expand on this a bit more: a person having a religion isn’t the problem. A group of people having a religion isn’t the problem either.
It becomes a problem when said people try to enforce the religion and its rules onto others.
You want to worship a god who tells you to pray 8 times a day? Sure, go for it. You want to follow a religion that tells you not to eat pork? Awesome, more bacon for me. You want your religion’s restrictions - such as, punishing being gay or blasphemy by death? Fuck right off and fuck off some more.
So you do agree that the death penalty is vile, i take it. Thats something. Yes, most enlightened countries have banned the practice.
Evil government
cant expect anything less from PRINCE BONESAW.
Saudis have bigger issues at the moment but i guess Sharia shit law is more important.
Sharia law in Saudi Arabia is really theatre. It’s not even remotely followed by the ruling elites, but used as a battering ram against the populace. Very much a Rules for Thee, not for Me situation.
The regime probably figures keeping dissent under check is their most important issue. They can’t fight so that’s all they have along with their money.
