Thursday, October 16, 2014

ISIS Beheadings are horrible. How about the Saudi Arabia Killings which happen weekly or monthly. (Are they OK? We sure don't talk about them in disgust.)

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/10/16/isis-beheadings-are-repugnant-as-are-those-carried-out-in-great-numbers-by-our-pious-saudi-friends/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friendlyatheist_101614UTC061051_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=47207157&spUserID=OTk2MjM1ODk5MjES1&spJobID=542107790&spReportId=NTQyMTA3NzkwS0

Mohammed Saad al-Beshi’s most productive day so far was when he beheaded seven prisoners. He told Arab News, “It doesn’t matter to me: Two, four, 10 – as long as I’m doing God’s will, it doesn’t matter how many people I execute.”
Al-Beshi started his trade in Jeddah in 1988, but many of the beheaders [there is currently a shortage of them] come from a long line of executioners, an occupation passed from generation to generation, like a cherished heirloom.
They’re nothing if not versatile.
In Saudi Arabia, at least, the executioner isn’t limited to separating bodies from heads. He also cuts off other body parts — hands, legs — depending on the crime.
Newsweek notes that the most recent beheading victim was convicted of — no joke — sorcery. Some Saudi prisoners are put to death for political dissent.

Through it all, the silence from the West is deafening.

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