saudi arabia issues

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/middleeast/saudi-executions-terror-intl/index.html

Dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has disappeared after going into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul to complete some paperwork regarding his impending marriage. The Turkish authorities are accusing the Saudis of murdering him and disposing of his body...

Looking like a one man coup at the moment. Since this is Monarchy and not a democracy there is no real way to take control other than becoming the king. Effectively it was a tribal collective of the original king. No more...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/saudi-arabia-women-drive-170926190857109.html About time. Whatever that means. If you ask me the prince would not have noticed women wanted to drive unless they took this...

What a moron: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/22/1664841/-Watch-the-Commerce-Secretary-rave-about-protester-free-Saudi-Arabia-where-protesters-are-beheaded?detail=facebook There was, Wilbur. You missed him. Now he's had his head cut off so you can have a more peaceful trip.

Saudi women file petition to end male guardianship system "Guardianship". It's a euphemism for ownership and male supremacy. Of course, I knew about this before, but it still flabbergasts me every time I am reminded. It's slavery really. Pure chattel slavery and legally enforced too...

Re: Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and al-Qaeda et al... IMO, the most fundamentally important thing to understand about Saudi Arabia's role in aiding, abetting, and assisting Al-Qaeda and its various offshoots is that the House of Saud's legitimacy as the ruling family of their country is based...

Firstly can we try and address this case without descending into generic Muslim bashing? Ali Mohammed al-Nimr is a pro-democracy activist in Saudi Arabia who was arrested four years ago, when he was 17, and now faces death by crucifixion for his "crimes". There are, to put it mildly, serious...

This is so bad it might be a parody of some sort. Deliberately mistranslated subtitles perhaps? http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/saudi-historian-us-women-drive-because-they-dont-care-if-theyre-raped/ar-AA9cEOj?ocid=iehp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQEeXmcWOxI&ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618...

I felt compelled to share this here. Sorry. http://rt.com/news/saudi-preacher-fine-rape-333/ He's no run-of-the-mill cleric either but the product of some celebrity and prominence in the Arab-Spring-Free kingdom, run by the same family (with small interruptions) since 1744...

Why do they hate us?: The article is describes numerous instances where women have been assaulted without consequence: - Women endure genital mutilation to reduce their sexual desires. - Its legal for men to beat women so long as they do so with "good intentions". - A gang-rape survivor was...

I am not sure what to make of this. The details are sparse, and I beleive it is unclear whether this woman was executed for sorcery, or for swindling people. It does not even say how she was executed. I hope it was not by stoning. It staggers me to think of people being charged and put to...

Yes the gals are getting uppity lately. Saudi Clerics: Women Will Turn Gay If They Drive The Advocate

... in 2015. But it's a start. I believe it's inevitable that liberalization of women's roles will occur in Islamic Arab countries. It's just a matter of time.

Saudi Arabia has hired lawyers to threaten Canadian broadcasters who dare to run a TV ad critical of Saudi conflict oil. http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/opinions/archives/2011/09/20110920-093238.html If you read the story it's obvious the author is biased, but putting that aside, the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110305/ts_nm/us_saudi_protests and Americans will continue to say "YES" to Saudi oil. soo much for our commitment to democracy, freedom, and liberty.

Christian Science Monitor There is a long, long road ahead if here in the 21st century women say, "God doesn't want me to have an identification card because then people would see my face." Of course, it could be more of a case of men saying, "God doesn't want my wife, sister, and daughter to...