State murder
News from our beloved ally Saudi Arabia, so very different from that horrid Islamic State that’s always killing people for no reason.
Sri Lanka has urged Saudi Arabia to pardon a domestic worker, sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in the Arab kingdom. An official from Sri Lanka’s Foreign Employment Bureau said the married 45-year-old, who had worked as a maid in Riyadh since 2013, was convicted of adultery in August.
She had sex with someone. Saudi Arabia is going to throw stones at her to kill her, because she had sex with someone. This is our “ally.”
(You know how the stoning works, right? The woman is buried up to her shoulders, and the men stand in a circle around her and throw stones at her head. It takes awhile to kill her. She screams a lot.)
This.is.our.ally.
Just another reason to support mass transit. Getting weaned off the stuff that makes this our ally seems better all the time. First the environmental stuff, now this…
Or she was raped by someone. They don’t really differentiate.Not that she should be punished either way, but it seems like these cases often turn out to be killing the victim of a real crime, so that they don’t have to deal with the evi rich men do.
May as well be allies with Iran… at least they have the same beef with Daesh that the West does.
Theoderic:
Not at all the same beef; Iran supports Syria, and their beef with Daesh relates to the antagonism between Shia and Sunni Salafists/Wahabi, the very ideology pushed by the Saudis — with whom the USA is already allied.
PS Theoderic, ever seen Rambo 3?
(It was the USA which essentially supported, financed and armed the Taliban, because they were allies of convenience against the godless Communists)