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Saudi Arabia sentences Shiite cleric to be crucified

Oct 15, 2014 11:41 pm By Robert Spencer

Nimr Baqer al-NimrEveryone knows that when the Islamic State crucifies people, it is practicing a bizarre extremism that has nothing to do with Islam. Oddly enough, our friends and allies the Saudis have succumbed to the same misunderstanding of Islam. Could it be that both have read this? “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (Qur’an 5:33)

“Saudi Arabia sentences reformist Shiite cleric to ‘crucifixion,’” by Shenaz Kermalli, The Star, October 15, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Raising fears of renewed sectarian tensions in the region, Saudi Arabia’s top court has sentenced a charismatic opposition leader to death for speaking out against the kingdom’s ruling family.

Nimr Baqer al-Nimr, a reformist cleric, has repeatedly called for an end to corruption and discrimination against minorities. He has a wide following, particularly among young people in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, home to most of the country’s minority Shiites, who are considered heretics by the Sunni-ruled government.

After being imprisoned for nearly two years, al-Nimr appeared in Riyadh’s Specialized Criminal Court Wednesday with his lawyer and two brothers. Charged with terrorism offences and “breaking allegiance to the king,” the judge upheld the country’s harshest sentence — “crucifixion” — where the decapitated body is publicly displayed. His brothers were reportedly detained after the sentencing.

Al-Nimr’s family urged Saudi authorities to reconsider the sentence, given the cleric’s teachings to never use force against the government. “They use violent bullets, we will use the roar of the word,” al-Nimr said in a sermon in 2011.

In another sermon that year, al-Nimr stated: “It is not permitted to use weapons and spread corruption in society.”

Al-Nimr was arrested in July 2012 following a gun battle in which he was shot in the leg four times for allegedly resisting arrest. His relatives deny police claims of rioting, saying the protests were peaceful and that al-Nimr never resisted arrest or owned a gun.

The confrontation took place after a fiery speech al-Nimr delivered earlier that month following Arab Spring-inspired protests across the region. “What gives the House of Saud the power to inherit the throne?” he said. “The House of Saud and Khalifa (in Bahrain) are mere collaborators with and pawns of the British and their cohorts. It is our right, and the right of the Bahraini people, and all people everywhere, to choose our leaders and demand that rule by succession be done away with as it contradicts our religion.”…

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  1. Zimriel says

    Oct 15, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    “It is our right, and the right of the Bahraini people, and all people everywhere, to choose our leaders and demand that rule by succession be done away with as it contradicts our religion.”…”

    “Except for the family of the amir al-mumineen [Ali], because that’s toatz different”, he forgot to add.

    • Steffen Larsen says

      Oct 16, 2014 at 7:44 am

      Lol, right.

    • Bamaguje says

      Oct 16, 2014 at 8:07 am

      But Shiism is based on the belief of succession of Muslim leaders from ‘prophet’ Mohammed’s family.

  2. Terry says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 12:00 am

    After seeing a video of the kings executioner and his ultra swift scimitar, beheading would be more merciful.

    • nothosaur says

      Oct 16, 2014 at 6:58 am

      I think they behead first, then crucify.

      Also, isn’t it interesting how this man’s plea for mercy because he didn’t own a gun fell on deaf ears? Might as well own a gun and give yourself a fighting chance

  3. SallyA says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 12:00 am

    “…the judge upheld the country’s harshest sentence — “crucifixion” — where the decapitated body is publicly displayed.” F_ _ _ ing insane. Insanely cruel. Too human as in the vilest, lowest form of unregenerate humanity. As f _ _ _ ing insane , no actually more f _ _ _ ing insane because group sanctioned and done in the name of “holy” religion, as when I saw (for academic reasons, really) an example of gonzo internet porn where a woman was buried up to her neck in hard-packed ground with a man electrocuting her constrained body through a box with levers he pulled beside her head as extreme emotional and physical sadism.

    I’m not in the same species with degenerate violent sadistic trash like this Islamic judge of the news report or the man who let himself be photographed for the sadistic porn (or its producer), to infect the minds of millions if not billions in the “picture says a thousand words” way of graphically violent imagery. IS and other Islamic beheaders know the power of political pornography and cynical sadism put into Youtube and other imagery. The Islamic judges and imams whose faces display cruelty, pictured all over the internet, are part of the same sadism and drive to terrorize. May they all get the hell they deserve, if not hereafter, then here at the hands of men as vile as they are.

  4. Wolfgang says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 12:07 am

    Just one battalion of SS grenadiers from the “grossdeutschland Division would mow through ISIS and Saudi Arabia and Quatar AND Syria in one week…..almost makes one wish for them to come back……

    • Bro. Nick says

      Oct 16, 2014 at 7:03 am

      When someone would even consider making that kind of comment about wanting to bringing back the ‘SS Grenadiers’ brings into greater reality what “the word of the LORD” said it will be like in these extremely evil and wicked ‘end-of-the-end days’ in which we are living.
      The absolute truth and reality of “the words of the LORD” should be very clear to “the few” – “the remnant” – the truly converted Biblical CHRISTians that have “an heart to perceive”, “ears to hear”, and “eyes to see” – that are aware of the incredible danger of ‘spiritual deception, delusion and a falling away from the truth’ that we are living in –
      – TODAY – RIGHT NOW !!!:

      “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
      (Gen 6:5 [KJV])

      “The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.”
      (Ps 12:8 [KJV])

      Me thinks that the whole world is becoming exponentially more rapidly ‘as it was in the days of Noah and of Lot’:
      “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
      Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.”
      (Luke 17:26-29 [KJV])
      .

      • Wolfgang says

        Oct 16, 2014 at 6:42 pm

        you must be one of those uber serious dudes…..re read what I said……ever heard of tongue in cheek ? [ apparently not ! ]

        • Bro. Nick says

          Oct 16, 2014 at 8:46 pm

          @ Wolfgang – Yes – I am one of those very serious ‘dudes’. I re-read your comment, and saw nothing to banter about in these
          ‘end-of-the-end days’ in which we are living.

          I personally find absolutely nothing ‘tongue in cheek’ about wishing to ‘bring back the ‘SS Grenadiers’ ‘.
          Have you even considered how absolutely offensive that comment is in these days of greatly increasing anti- ISRAEL and anti- JEW sentiment worldwide.

          This seems to be a place where most gather to make no serious comments – but just ‘banter’ about the absolute misery that is being caused by the followers of the Satanic false ‘moon-god’ Allah and his lying prophet Mohammed.

      • Wolfgang says

        Oct 16, 2014 at 10:57 pm

        funny….. Bro. Nick, seem’s a bit uptight, being German and having relatives in the WW2 German army, yes I am fully aware that the they were not SS, offensive to Jews ?, sheesh ! I have Jewish friends and they know my family, by the way, about 10 percent of the German population where Nazi , does that mean that all the grossdeutschland men were avid Nazi’s ? no it doesn’t , the men who where my family knew they were defending their homes and families, they all came from the local area and trained together, war is war, and the disciplined men of the grossdeutschland and other divisions of the fighting SS were unmatched in the art of soldiery , consider that they where trained to the modern equivalent of the US Rangers or Green Berets or better , my point is they knew how to fight and go after the enemy ! , the enemy here is Islam, notice I didn’t say Moslems, frankly too many militaries are so politically correct that they have no WILL to fight a battle with ISIS or any other motivated enemy, most don’t have the stomach for a long term fight with ISIS.

        sind Sie bereit, den Islam zu bekämpfen und noch vielleicht verlieren Männer in langwierigen Krieg?

        Bro.Nick you can find a good English German translator to if you are so inclined.

        if it came to fight on a mental level and physical I am prepared to fight for my home and family against all enemies.

        I presume you are Jewish ? I have endured barbs of being a Nazi, Hun , race of baby killers , etc , etc, most Germans have a thick skin, we had to endure a lot, I had family who were killed in the Dresden fire storms that rained so many bombs down it created fire tornadoes, the illustrious Allies courtesy of the US Army air force and the RAF made the city an inferno, I could hate the Allies , but I don’t I am just glad the War is over.

        And I really think that the fighting spirit of the grenadiers or or any other elite fighting force is what is needed here to both motivate and encourage people to stand up to the tyranny of Islam and I have no doubt that a large violent physical fight with ISIS, ISIL , IS and other violent radical jihadist groups will happen, by the way for the record, the elite units of the WW2 German Army and SS didn’t go around and have to crucify or behead people ! why ? because they are of essentially Christian heritage, I have spent more time writing this than I should. I will leave it at that.

        @ SAKOVKT

        yes ,you re correct about the Division also about the Division being subverted and of course there are parallels with foreigners fighting with the same level of tenacity of the home grown original soldiers.

        • Wolfgang says

          Oct 18, 2014 at 4:36 am

          @ SAKOVKT

          Ich verstehe und sehen, deutsch amerikanische?

          @Bro.Nick

          You throw the religious epithets into your reply to me …….I may be a bit slowwwww today but what has that got to do with my summation of needing to have the same esprit-de-corp of the the WW2 German Army elite fighting units in todays Armies in the West ?………enlighten on my confusion ?

          By the way , my family nor myself have any links with the Nazi’s !

          I could of course take mortal offence and suggest engaging in pistols at dawn but I would rather sleep in and have a coffee and attempt to get on with most people, comprende ?

      • Chanah says

        Oct 17, 2014 at 5:54 am

        AMEN yes we’re heading towards ww3, may GOD have mercy on us because the World have none

        • Bro. Nick says

          Oct 17, 2014 at 6:36 am

          @ Chanah – Thank you for your reply, which is a real help.
          Your reply shows that there truly are only “the few” – “the remnant” – the truly converted CHRISTians that have “an heart to perceive”, “ears to hear”, and “eyes to see” – that are aware of the incredible time of danger and great ‘spiritual deception’ that we are living in –
          – TODAY – RIGHT NOW !!!

          How could the lives of real CHRISTians be used by “the Lord God Almighty” if more of us would actually live our lives with
          ‘NO Reserves, NO Retreat, NO Regret’ for our Lord and Saviour “Jesus the Christ”?

          CHRISTians – We need to put on – and keep on the “whole armor of God”
          (Eph 6:10-20 | 2 Cor 10:3-5 | James 4:6-10 [KJV])
          – AND pray often, with great sincerity, effectually and fervently, and in real humility for the protection, spiritual discernment, wisdom, and guidance of “the Lord God Almighty” for all saints –
          (Eph 6:18 | 1 Thess 5:23 [KJV])

          – AND for the few truly ‘God called’ Biblically sound Pastors and Teachers – the ‘true Shepherds’ that “the Lord God Almighty” has left to us – worldwide – in these increasingly perilous end times of greater and greater ‘spiritual deception’ – (Amos 8:11-14 [KJV])

          – AND for all CHRISTians – in the MID-EAST, and wherever else we live – (Eph 6:18 [KJV])
          [the ‘Big Satan’ of the Mohammadens]

          – AND for all of the JEWISH people and the land of ISRAEL – (1 Tim 2:1 [KJV])
          [the ‘Little Satan’ of the Mohammadens]

          – AND for all “kings” – each and every one of the ‘heads of state’ – and for those in authority.
          (1 Tim 2:2 [KJV])

          – AND for MANY-MANY LOST people everywhere
          – including the followers of Mohammed – to accept the “free gift” of Biblical Salvation by true belief in “Jesus the Christ”!!! – remembering that:
          “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
          (2 Pet 3:9 || also 1 Tim 2:4 | Ezek 18:30-32 [KJV])
          .

        • Wolfgang says

          Oct 18, 2014 at 5:11 am

          @Bro.nick

          hmmmmmmm…………….coming from the Germanic race I must be not one of the chosen “few ” eh ?

  5. Jackbo Godfrey says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 2:09 am

    Excellent posting. The “truth” about the religion of peace just keeps creeping out into the media. O tempore, o mores.

  6. Dave says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 5:39 am

    Sounds like a version of Obama using the IRS and DOJ to go after opposition groups wanting 501c status.
    The crucifiction of political opponents is a long time favorite for Muslims. Beheadings are easier if there is a wood shortage in the desert.

  7. Coolio says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 6:23 am

    … with support from the UK labour party

    New infiltration plot discovered:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/7333420/Islamic-radicals-infiltrate-the-Labour-Party.html

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 6:59 am

    Sharia insaudi arabia versus isis? Do you see adifference? I don’t see a difference.

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Oct 17, 2014 at 9:35 am

      Nor do I. In fact terrorism arose in Saudi Arabia as did Islam. Nothing has changed. WWIII is surely around the corner.

  9. duh_swami says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 7:43 am

    The evil of Islam is always poking through the thin veil of respectability that artificially covers it.

    • paddy says

      Oct 16, 2014 at 8:03 am

      Jeez Duh…I just slagged you off in a previous posting….make your mind up

      • Ayatrollah says

        Oct 16, 2014 at 10:18 am

        And you did not understand that post.

        • p says

          Oct 16, 2014 at 1:21 pm

          nyah….i’m kinda loosing the plot

  10. Eric Johnson says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 10:59 am

    “Men never do evil so thoroughly and joyfully as when they do it for religious conviction.”
    Blaise Pascal

  11. Dennis says

    Oct 16, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    Sounds like the movie series Tyrant and the Saudi King has a pretty good gig.
    Rule with terror – shame on you- then hide behind the
    Quran!

  12. Coolio says

    Oct 17, 2014 at 10:23 am

    Apart from destroying nukes, just goes to show how the West can best sort its own internal iSlum problem out and stay on the periphery of iSlum while they all behead each other.

  13. RG says

    Oct 17, 2014 at 10:33 am

    Is it any secret that Saudi Arabia is the most evil regime in the world? A family owned country that kills people for dissent.

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