Tuesday 13 January 2015

What Saudis and Wahabis have reduced Islam into


Islam had come into the world as a great liberating force. It spread the message of equality long before the American Declaration of Independence of 1776. By treating all men as equal it was a great leveller. That is why it spread from Spain to Indonesia.
  But see what the Saudis and the Wahabis have reduced it to. They have made Islam into an enslaving force..

Global outrage at Saudi Arabian blogger’s public flogging

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is remaining silent in the face of global outrage at the public flogging of the jailed blogger Raif Badawi, who received the first 50 of 1,000 lashes on Friday, part of his punishment for running a liberal website devoted to freedom of speech in the conservative kingdom.

Anger at the flogging — carried out as the world watched the bloody denouement of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket jihadi killings in Paris — focused on a country that is a strategic ally, oil supplier and lucrative market for the U.S., Britain and other western countries but does not tolerate criticism at home.

Punishment filmed

Mr. Badawi was shown on a YouTube video being beaten in a square outside a mosque in Jeddah, watched by a crowd of several hundred who shouted Allahu Akbar (God is great) and clapped and whistled after the flogging ended. Mr. Badawi made no sound during the flogging and was able to walk back unaided afterwards.

“Raif was escorted from a bus and placed in the middle of the crowd, guarded by eight or nine officers,” a witness told Amnesty International. “He was handcuffed and shackled but his face was not covered. A security officer approached him from behind with a huge cane and started beating him.

“Raif raised his head towards the sky, closing his eyes and arching his back. He was silent, but you could tell from his face and his body that he was in real pain.” Mr. Badawi’s wife, Ensaf Haidar, told the Guardian from Montreal on Sunday: “Many governments around the world have protested about my husband’s case. I was optimistic until the last minute before the flogging. But the Saudi government is behaving like Daesh [a derogatory Arabic name for Islamic State or Isis].”

Saudi Arabia joined other Arab and Muslim countries in condemning the murder of 12 people at the Paris satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo but angry comments highlighted its double standard in meting out a cruel punishment to a man who was accused of insulting Islam.

One cartoon circulating on social media showed a man resembling Mr. Badawi being flogged alongside the words: “Saudi Arabia condemns the terrorist attack on freedom of expression in Paris” Another image showed a pencil being flayed by whips.

One woman at Sunday’s Paris solidarity rally carried a placard declaring: “I am Raif Badawi, the Saudi journalist who was flogged.” Others protested at the presence of the Saudi Foreign Minister.

Mr. Badawi was sentenced last May to 10 years’ imprisonment and 1,000 lashes — 50 at a time over 20 weeks — and fined 1 million Saudi riyals (£175,000). He has been held since mid-2012, and his Free Saudi Liberals website, established to encourage debate on religious and political matters in Saudi Arabia, is closed.

He is expected to receive another 50 lashes this Friday.

Mr. Badawi’s punishment is part of a wider campaign against domestic dissent. His lawyer, Waleed Abu al-Khair, was sentenced to 15 years in prison last July because of criticism of human rights abuses.

— © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2015

8 comments:

  1. https://www.facebook.com/notes/277683585596093/?pnref=story

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  2. ye toh dastoorE zamana hai azal se Nazim
    sirf bay-zor pa atlaaqE sazaa hotaa hai
    .....................Khaja nazimuddin - Nazim

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  3. Saudi is a feudal with a king on top who with its oil rich reserve keep its people happy. Saudi is about one man who makes laws, implement and so it is not democracy.

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  4. 1973 में तेल की कीमतों में रातो रात उछाल के बाद अरब शेखो के पास बेइंतिहा पैसा आया इस पेसो से अय्याशियों के नए नए रिकॉर्ड बनाने के बाद उन्होंने उसे दुनिया भर में खासकर उपमहादीप में भेज़ना शरू कर दिया इसी पेसो के प्रभाव से उलजुलूल कठमुल्लाओं की फ़ौज़ पैदा हो गयी सारे मुस्लिम कटट्रपंथ की जड़ में अरबी पैसा मिलेगा अफ़सोस आम मुस्लिम को इस खतरे के बारे में कोई खास जानकारी नहीं हे

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  5. http://khabarkikhabar.com/archives/1105

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  6. Saudi Arabia is the purveyor of Islamic fanaticism and terror. A br barbaric country with thousands of princes all because of oil wealth . Else those fellows would be crawling about in the deserts.I guess RSA must be ranked with North Korea as terror state. The later is dictatorship with no isms , but the Saudis are a larger threat

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  7. no u r very wrong! dis is not done by saudis, islam was always that way..blasphemy was always there. The leveller thing u r talking abt has nothing to do wid present event.

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