Saudis beheads three foreigners

[sabra]

Source: herald sun

SAUDI Arabia beheaded an Indian, an Iraqi and a Pakistani overnight after they were convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said.

Rashid Akbar Hussein Eddin of India and Wassee-Allah Rafee-Allah Khan of Pakistan were found guilty of trafficking opiates, while Iraqi Ahmed al-Khazali was convicted of smuggling hashish, the ministry said according to the official SPA news agency.

Their executions bring to 23 the number announced by Saudi authorities this year, after a record 153 people were put to death last year.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can carry the death penalty in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where executions are usually carried out in public.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23162266-5005961,00.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. When's the last time Saudi Arabia beheaded an American?

[ohio2007]

6. When was the last time America beheaded anyone as punishment under drug laws ?

lol

no pun intended but they "stone" adulterers under sharia law also. Iran has such a punishment being doled out very soon. they have 'time marriages' over there

while in the US , it's called prostitution ;)

[happyslug]

18. Iran is Shiite, Saudi Arabia is Sunni

This is important, for only the Shiite recognize "Time Marriage" the Sunni do NOT. This goes back to Mohammad, who permitted such time marriages after he had one one of the battles he had fought. The Shiite thus said Mohammad set up such "Temporary marriages" while the Sunni said it was only a one time event that was NOT to be made permanent.

[High Plains]

25. Some folks can always be counted on for Islam bashing.

But if you want to make an argument that America's drug laws are in any meaningful way more enlightened than Saudi Arabia's, that would be a tough sell.

We have half a million people imprisoned on drug charges in this country. Some of them are doing decades for a handful of crack rocks.

We have paramilitary SWAT teams doing routine drug raids and killing young mothers as they do so. Right there in Ohio. In Lima, last month.

Yes, the resort to the death penalty by Iran and Saudi Arabia is ugly and primitive. But we have it, too.

The Saudi executions are one thing. What are you doing about the killings that take place in your state?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. Americans accused of crimes in Saudi Arabia are discretely deported.

this treatment was even extended to a man from New Orleans who raped a maid.

[ohio2007]

16. FBI wanted to question some Saudi's on 9/12/01 but those snakes got a plane out

to the kingdom.would have been nice holding some members of somebodies family for ransome.

[High Plains]

2. An international campaign against the death penalty for drug offenses

is getting under way. Read about it here: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/518/international_death_penalty_drugs_campaign

Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and Vietnam are also leaders in drug offender executions.

They would seem to be in violation of international law. See the article.

[shireen]

3. why aren't they beheading the users? Most probably rich Saudis?!

I'm usually pretty non-judgmental and respectful of other cultures ... but Saudi Arabia is a major exception. That is one cruel sick twisted place. Naturally, their leaders are best buddies with Bush.
(edited, typo)

[TwilightGardener]

4. That's it, they're off my vacation-destination list now!

[Brrrp]

5. The death penalty for hash? OMFG

From the article: "Iraqi Ahmed al-Khazali was convicted of smuggling hashish,..."

[geardaddy]

13. I believe Malaysia does the same thing.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38380

[DemoTex]

22. Singapore, too.

When you enter Singapore, your visa is stamped with a warning, in bright red ink: THE PENALTY FOR TRAFFICKING IN DRUGS IS DEATH.

[ohio2007]

17. Iranian sisters face stoning for adultery: (more laws under reported)

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080204125017.uba91jgn&show_article=1

btw,

their religion is spreading....maybe to a town near you ...
freedom of religion and all ;)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/removal-of-the-pics-of-muhammad-from-wikipedia

[High Plains]

26. Islamophobia is so tiring.

[BadgerLaw2010]

23. The Middle East has very tolerant drug laws. nt.

[Maestro]

7. How so medieval of them!

Seriously, if the beheadings actually worked, they wouldn't have had 153 announced executions last year plus the ones already for this year. The death penalty does not work.

[dantyrant]

8. Thats our "ally".

Isn't it interesting how Bush's lofty rhetoric about democracy in the Middle East completely ignores the feudal state that 16 of the alleged 19 hijackers came from?

I'd also point out the obvious hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia pretending to be anti-drug, when in fact they financed the network that came to be known as al Qaeda("the database") -- a network whose currency is, in fact, drugs. Remember Iran-Contra and the explosion of poppy production after Brzezinski's Mujihadeen were organized in Afghanistan?

[MidwestTransplant]

9. BFFs

[tinrobot]

11. These are the people who gave George Bush his pet sword

You think he might use it on some 'domestic terrorists?'

[lutefisk]

12. Junior's impressed! He only executed 133 in 5 years as governor.

:patriot:

[daleo]

14. I wonder what that swords been up to?

Bush has a well known penchant for "trophies" (e.g. Saddam's gun).

[geardaddy]

24. Yuck.

Look at the way he's just practically bent over with laughter there. *shudder*

[liam_laddie]

15. Ah, yes...those Whahabbi buddies

of George and Dick. Fine fellows, and allies, too! Didn't our regime just offer to sell them some tens of billions of killing devices? Oh, wait, I meant defensive systems. Fuck the prehistoric shiekhs. Bloodthirsty, hypocritical asses. Hugo Boss, cognac and call girls in Paris; dishdashas, smaghs, tea and harems in Riyadh. No first-class Emirates for them, gotta have their very own A340-300 "commuter."

[stevedeshazer]

19. The United States executed 43 in 2007, mostly by lethal injection

In 2006, the United States imprisoned one in every 133 of its citizens, most for drug offenses.

This is far and away the highest rate in the world.

Shame on the Saudis and their repressive laws, but our nation can scarcely claim the high ground regarding the issue of execution and imprisonment.

And don't even get me started on Guantanamo Bay and 'extraordinary rendition'.

:(

[LynnTheDem]

20. Beheadinbg is only an outrage when george bush tells us it's an outrage

when george bush's enemies do it.

It's ok when our allies do it.

[bitchkitty]

21. Our civilized allies. n/t