Documents Show Saudi Arabia and ISIS Administer Nearly Identical Punishments for Crimes

[eridani]

Our bestest buds in the world. Cuba is so much worse, dontchaknow.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28178-documents-show-saudi-arabia-and-isis-administer-nearly-identical-punishments-for-crimes

following the lashing of blogger Raif Badawi and leaked footage that showed the public execution of a woman accused of beating her daughter, Saudi Arabia's harsh interpretation of sharia law and its use of capital punishment have come under international scrutiny.

For many, the Saudi justice system sounds not unlike that of the Islamic State, the extremist Islamist group which has struck fear in much of the Middle East.

This week, Middle East Eye, a Web site that focuses on news from the region and is frequently critical of Saudi Arabia, contrasted a set of legal punishments recently announced by the Islamic State with the corresponding punishments in Saudi Arabia.

While Saudi Arabia isn't particularly forthcoming about it's use of capital punishment (and Middle East Eye doesn't cite its source) and accurate information from within the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate is hard to ascertain, information from news sources and human rights organizations suggest the chart is at least broadly accurate.

[Thinkingabout]

1. For the people beheaded by ISIS, what crimes are they guilty of doing?

ISIS tells they are going to behead their captives because some government or company does not pay the ransom, this makes it different from Saudi choosing beheading as their capital punishment. The big difference is having been tried and not being tried.

[eridani]

2. And all the Saudi trials are "fair." And I'm Marie or Roumania. n/t

[Thinkingabout]

4. Never said the trials were fair but beheading because of failure to pay ransom is not fair for sure.

[eissa]

3. They're identical for a reason

Saudi exportation and funding of Wahhabism bearing its disgusting fruit.