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Saudi Arabia: Muslim mob screamed “Allahu akbar” as man was lashed in front of mosque for insulting Islam

May 22, 2016 12:03 pm By Robert Spencer

Some in the crowd asserted that he should have been beheaded, to the murmured agreement of other onlookers. A glimpse into the West’s future:

“‘The crowd were shouting Allahu Akbar. A man was striking Raif with all his might’: Wife of Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes reveal horror as she saw him punished,” MailOnline, May 18, 2016:

It was a court ruling that sparked outrage around the world.

Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail in Saudi Arabia for insulting Islam, a verdict later upheld by the country’s supreme court.

Badawi received the first 50 lashes outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in January and later revealed it was ‘miraculous’ he had survived the ordeal.

His wife Ensaf Haidar, the President co-founder, Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom (RBFF), has launched a worldwide campaign to secure his freedom.

Here, in an excerpt from her new book ‘Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story’ (Other Press) Ensaf describes the horror of watching footage of her loved one being whipped in public….

…I nervously fumbled a cigarette from the pack in front of me. ‘Tomorrow they’re going to start enforcing my sentence. One of the prison warders told me.’ It took me a moment to understand what he was telling me. ‘Yes, Ensaf. The first 50 lashes. I’ll get them in front of the big mosque in Jeddah.’…

The whole day was one big nightmare. I called my friend Mireille. ‘Have they done it?’ I asked her. ‘Yes,’ said Mireille. ‘In public, in front of a big crowd of people. So we have witnesses. Soon it will be all over the net.’ ‘There’s also supposed to be a video,’ she warned me. ‘Someone filmed Raif’s lashes on their phone.’

It wasn’t hard to find. By now some of my Facebook friends were referring to it. It also appeared immediately on YouTube when you searched for ‘Raif Badawi’ and ‘lashes’. It was as if I was being operated by remote control. With trembling hands I clicked on the video to set it in motion. I saw Raif’s delicate frame from behind, in the middle of a big crowd of people. He was wearing a white shirt and dark trousers, and his hair hung down to his shoulders. He looked thin. His hands were cuffed in front of his body. I couldn’t see his face. The men around him were wearing the usual white gowns and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.

The man himself could not be made out in the video. But I saw clearly that he was striking Raif with all his might. Raif’s head was bowed. In very quick succession he took the blows all over the back of his body: he was lashed from shoulders to calves, while the men around him clapped and uttered pious phrases. It was too much for me. It’s indescribable, watching something like that being done to the person you love. I felt the pain they were inflicting on Raif as if it was my own….

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  1. Charli Main says

    May 22, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    Thanks to David Cameron´s Muslim arse kissing talents, Saudi Arabia is now a leading light on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

    • Angemon says

      May 22, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      Right? Tells you everything you need to know about the UNHRC.

      • mortimer says

        May 22, 2016 at 1:46 pm

        So much for the freedom of conscience section in UNDHR. Every Western country must strongly protest and seek diplomatic sanctions against these Barbarians.

      • Marty says

        May 23, 2016 at 7:50 am

        Also tells you all you need to know about Cameron.
        To say he is without moral compass is an understatement.
        He also obviously hates most British people, and uses their
        taxes to fund mohammedan schools.

      • Bob says

        May 23, 2016 at 10:02 am

        And the UN as a whole- muslim-infested & dominated!

  2. pdxnag says

    May 22, 2016 at 12:29 pm

    So, he committed Islamophobia?

    • mortimer says

      May 22, 2016 at 1:51 pm

      No. He asked Muslims to reform and modernize.

    • خَليفة says

      May 23, 2016 at 5:06 am

      ( comment awaiting moderation ) -hahaha I’m being watched

      Islamiphobia is a made up thing. Do some Google translating: ( English to Arabic to English)
      “Irrational fear of Islam”
      “fear of Islam” will come back as islamophobia
      Phobias an irrational fear.

      But just because U R not afraid of Islam, does not mean they are NOT out to get U

  3. Marty says

    May 22, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    This is both sickening and revealing of the Islamic death cult and mental disease. Islam has its greatest appeal to sadists, sociopaths, and pedophiles.

    • mortimer says

      May 22, 2016 at 1:58 pm

      And despite these displays of 7th century barbarity, our Western elites cannot understand that THIS is simply normative Islam…not ‘extreme Islam’ nor an aberration.

      Muslims ALL must believe in this sadistic medieval legal system or be punished as apostates. Muslims who believe in Sharia are deeply, emotionally, narcissistically wounded.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 22, 2016 at 2:16 pm

        What Bull Crap!
        Wake up mort

        Muslims ALL must believe
        Muslims are —“wounded”

        Wrong again morty
        Cry me a river

        I will tell you exactly what Muslims — “must do”

        (Hold themselves accountable like everyone else)

      • john spielman says

        May 22, 2016 at 5:09 pm

        agree, muslims are deceived by allah/(Satan to Christians) and since Allah’s “prophet” muhammed whom they consider was a ‘perfect man”, was in reality; a demon possessed false prophet and a MURDERER LIAR THIEF RAPIST and PEDOPHILE, they behave like he did. The result is the vile oppressive violent counties where islam holds sway

    • Jay Boo says

      May 22, 2016 at 2:10 pm

      Yes
      Absolutely true.
      Although commenters like Mortimer will strongly disagree.—
      Islam is not a religion.

      The hatchet man ‘(religion)’ death cult has no god, only a whip and a head chopping block offered in dubious honor of its (vanity hand-job) puppet god impersonator that Muhammad made from his sock.

      Even though Muslims go to the mosque for an Islamic circle jerk where Muslim men stroke each others egos and who knows what else after their Wudu voo-doo near naked bath ritual and chant incantations to Islam’s Serpent of Satan, Muhammad, Islam is not and has never been a religion.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 22, 2016 at 3:54 pm

        In reply to Marty
        good comment

        “This is both sickening and revealing of the Islamic death cult and mental disease. Islam has its greatest appeal to sadists, sociopaths, and pedophiles.”

      • Mirren10 says

        May 23, 2016 at 8:42 am

        ” … Islam is not and has never been a religion.”

        Rubbish.

        ”Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called “an order of existence”.[1] Different religions may or may not contain various elements, ranging from the “divine”,[2] “sacred things”,[3] “faith”,[4] a “supernatural being or supernatural beings”[5] or “…some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life.”[6]

        Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of God or deities), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have sacred histories and narratives, which may be preserved in sacred scriptures, and symbols and holy places, that aim mostly to give a meaning to life. Religions may contain symbolic stories, which are sometimes said by followers to be true, that have the side purpose of explaining the origin of life, the Universe, and other things. Traditionally, faith, in addition to reason, has been considered a source of religious beliefs.[7] There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide.[8] About 84% of the world’s population is affiliated with one of the five largest religions, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religion.[9]” (Wiki)

        One of the *strongest* elements in religion is the almost universal belief in some kind of after-life. Viz mohammedans blowing themselves and others to bits in order to reach paradise and the 72 virgins.

        I fail to see any point in your constant idiotic assertions that islam is not a religion. What purpose does it serve ?

        • Jay Boo says

          May 23, 2016 at 11:32 am

          Islam is a JOKE

          A sick evil joke but still a joke built on a pile of vanity.
          Islam is nothing but a joke and shameless EXCUSE posing as a religion.

    • Christianblood says

      May 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      (Saudi Arabia: Muslim mob screamed “Allahu akbar” as man was lashed in front of mosque for insulting Islam)

      Did he survive?

      • Angemon says

        May 23, 2016 at 8:25 am

        Hi CB!

        Try reading the article 🙂

  4. mortimer says

    May 22, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    SODDY BARBARIA.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 22, 2016 at 2:12 pm

      Very original

  5. somehistory says

    May 22, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    islam….another word for psychopathic.
    A psychopath started a gang of psychopaths centuries ago and threatened all who resisted.
    The gang of psychopaths have surged forth with evil power in this time of the end.
    islam is from satan the devil, a beast that is being used to slaughter mankind.

    If one resists the beast, that one is slaughtered. If one is psychopathic and joins the beast, that one will be doomed to destruction in the Great Day that is coming quickly.

    Better by far to be slaughtered by the beast than to give in to it and have destruction as one’s “future”…which is no future at all..

    (Revelation chapters 20-21)

  6. Steven B. Reed says

    May 22, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    allah is such a weak god, he can’t even parse out justice himself. He has to have his brainwashed followers do it for him. Maybe he changed his koran and said to love your neighbor but forgot to tell his followers, you know he changes his mind a lot, the koran says so.

  7. George Poll says

    May 22, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    Well, if those Muzzies don’t have goats or young boys to rape, they get frustrated and start beating people up!

  8. dsinc says

    May 23, 2016 at 8:53 am

    Savages

  9. baconator says

    May 25, 2016 at 1:35 am

    “Mob” is a misnomer. It gives the impression that Muslims are human. “Pack” of wild Quranimals would have been more appropriate.

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