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Saudi Arabia: Man sentenced to be beheaded for atheism

Apr 27, 2017 11:42 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The sharia courts in Saudi Arabia have sentenced a young man in his twenties to death by beheading for atheism, apostasy and blasphemy. This is a country ruled by normative Islam. Ahmad Al Shamri renounced Islam and Muhammad on social media. His defense tried to enter an insanity plea, stating that he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time of his supposed crime, but drug use also comes with a death penalty in that country.

Preserving the supremacy of Islam and the sharia are the highest priorities of Saudi Arabia, above the life and limb of any human being regardless of age; this norm is drilled into its citizens. Some Muslim twitter users have celebrated Ahmad Al Shamri’s death sentence, with one tweet stating: “I wish there could be live streaming when you cut his head off.”

Royal decrees under the late King Abdullah re-defined atheists as terrorists, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

Beheadings are the most common form of execution in Saudi Arabia, although Saudi authorities also sometimes use a firing squad. Figures reported in 2016 showed that executions in Saudi Arabia hit their highest level in two decades, with at least 157 beheadings in 2015, 40% for drug related offences. Al Shamri was clearly doomed.

Saudi Arabia has been on the UN’s Human Rights Council since September 2015, and last week it was elected to the UN women’s rights commission.

“Man ‘sentenced to death for atheism’ in Saudi Arabia”, by Bethan McKernan, Independent, April 26, 2017:

A man in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been sentenced to death on charges of apostasy after losing two appeals.

Several local media reports identified the man as Ahmad Al Shamri, in his 20s, from the town of Hafar al-Batin, who first came to the authorities’ attention in 2014 after allegedly uploading videos to social media in which he renounced Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.

He was arrested on charges of atheism and blasphemy and held in prison before being convicted by a local court and sentenced to death in February 2015.

At the time Mr Shamri’s defence entered an insanity plea, adding that his client was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time of making the videos.

He reportedly lost an Appeals Court case, and a Supreme Court ruled against him earlier this week.

While news stories in the last few years consistently identify Mr Shamri, his identity or sentencing has not been verified by the Saudi authorities.

The Independent’s requests for comment from Saudi government representatives were not immediately answered.

Under Saudi Arabia’s strict religious laws, leaving Islam can be punishable by harsh prison sentences and corporeal punishment – and a 2014 string of royal decrees under the late King Abdullah re-defined atheists as terrorists, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

Last year, a citizen was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing atheistic sentiment in hundreds of social media posts.

Mr Shamri’s name and hometown have trended on Arabic-speaking Twitter in the last few days. Some users have even celebrated his sentencing.

“If you’re a lowkey atheist that’s fine. But once you talk in public & criticize God or religion, then you shall be punished,” one such post read.

“I wish there could be live streaming when you cut his head off,” said another.

International human rights watchdogs have consistently condemned Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.

The Kingdom came under further scrutiny last week when it emerged it had been elected to the UN’s women’s rights commission.

Under the country’s system of guardianship, women’s rights and freedom of movement is heavily restricted. They are not allowed to drive, and voted for the first time in 2015……

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:00 pm

    ATHEISTS and AGNOSTICS! YOUR HEADS COULD BE NEXT!

    Western atheists and agnostics (excepting Bill Maher and the late Christopher Hitchens) have been in the habit of AIDING AND ABETTING JIHADISTS with moral support for their supposed ‘REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLES’ against capitalism, blah, blah, etc.

    Not knowing anything about Islam and never reading the sources texts, Western atheists and agnostics have APPOINT THEMSELVES INFALLIBLE authorities on Islam and feel freely to SPONTANEOUSLY PONTIFICATE on Islam.

    A perfect example of this LUNACY is VIRTUE-SIGNALLING MICHAEL MOORE with his ‘WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS’ slogan.

    No, Moore, atheists like you are NOT Muslims and the official BEHEADER of Saudi Arabia will never look at YOUR HEAD as a MUSLIM HEAD.

    Michael Moore’s head is a KAFIR HEAD.

    • Oliver says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 12:40 pm

      Perhaps he wants to be beheaded.

      I think it would raise the cumulative iq of wherever he was living. If beheaded

      • john spielman says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm

        what an evil thing to say- you must be muslim to think like that, as many muslims are influenced by Satan/ allah and programmed to kill anyone who opposes islam’s vile demonic “religion”

        • john spielman says

          Apr 27, 2017 at 1:24 pm

          i use ‘religion ‘ in quotations because islam is not a religion but a MAFIA type organization of murder intimidation and terror

        • Dave says

          Apr 28, 2017 at 5:37 am

          You are right on point

        • Jeanette says

          Apr 28, 2017 at 3:54 pm

          Oliver has a point. All this man had to do to avoid being beheaded was to keep his mouth shut.

          Instead, he shouted his philosophy to the world, and SHAZAM!!!! The primitives who have been behaving as savages for 1,400 years chose to once again behave as savages.

          Re: Islam’s status. Islam meets all of the qualifiers of a cult, including human sacrifice.

          The sooner we can get it re-classified as a cult, the sooner we can begin to cut the Tumor Muslim from the West.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 29, 2017 at 12:15 am

          Jeanette wrote:

          Oliver has a point. All this man had to do to avoid being beheaded was to keep his mouth shut.
          ……………….

          Jeanette–with all respect–don’t you realize that Muslims tell *us* the same thing?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 3:48 pm

      Very true, Mortimer.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:15 pm

      Mortimer you are a fool and liar. Your hatred of atheists exposes your religiot thinking, belief in the absurd- much the same as Muslims do. The brotherhood of “God”.
      Where do you get this imbecilic bullsh*t??
      AIDING AND ABETTING JIHADISTS with moral support for their supposed ‘REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLES’ against capitalism, blah, blah, etc.
      Try pulling your head out of your god-fearing anus and see the light. Ridiculous, hate-filled buffoon.

      • johnnybigtime says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 7:06 am

        JIMJFOX
        I think you need to get your own brain ‘in gear’
        The scientific Law of Biogenesis, states that all life comes from existing life, after its own kind.
        This is exactly what the book of Genesis says.
        This is bad news for atheists and evolutionists.
        Unbelievers shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone (which is the second death) Revelation 20 and 21.

        Kind Regards x

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 4:01 pm

        Frankly, you sound as hateful as anyone I’ve read in any of these comment sections, yourself.

        But your comment did remind me to be more careful to stay clear of potty-mouth language.

    • Sarah says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 3:58 am

      I am an atheist.And I believe Islam is a cancer on the human race and the scourge should be eradicated from any civilized nation- let anyone who wants to be Muslim live in an Islamic nation, I say – but no Islam in the West.

      I think you will find that there are many, many, MANY atheists who also dislike Islam to varying degrees.. After all – we are the people who choose to reject religion in any form and the promises and punishments that all religions offer.

      • Thought_Weaver says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 6:19 am

        Well said?

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 4:03 pm

        Agree totally!

        I don’t think that the West can be saved unless Islam is removed. Not just the importation of now Muslims stopped, but all Muslims removed.

        Let the West heal while the Muslims kill each other off in a new Muslimland, set aside especially for them.

        • Jeanette says

          Apr 28, 2017 at 4:04 pm

          Should have been “importation of NEW Muslims” not “now Muslims”!

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 12:23 am

        Good for you, Sarah! There are other Anti-Jihadists who are Agnostic and Atheist–including posters like Wellington and Jihad Watch contributors like Hugh Fitzgerald.

      • Demsci says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 3:08 am

        Yes, well said!

        I see a triangle of Muslims-Christians-Atheists. And for me the latter 2 should combine against the first. And in answer to the quite natural aversion of both Chr and Ath against Islam, I seek common ground for them in what they are FOR and I think it is the full Democratic System, with it’s 5 pillars; Separation of Church/ Mosque and State, Free honest elections, rule of law (constitutional state), freedom of speech, as much as possible freedom of the individual (man AND woman).

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 29, 2017 at 7:01 pm

          Islam targets Christians and Atheists.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    Virtue-signalling Western atheists and agnostics lend support to the official BEHEADER of Saudi Arabia, while the official HEADSMAN acts as a GOOD MUSLIM cutting off ATHEIST and AGNOSTIC HEADS.

    In an Islamic state, NO ATHEIST or AGNOSTIC has a right to live, because they are KAFIRS who willfully refuse to acknowledge the SUPREMACY of ALLAH!

    Atheist useful IDIOTS like Michael Moore give their MORAL SUPPORT to the Saudi HEADSMAN with their slogans.

    Mr. Moore, the Saudi HEADSMAN does not agree with your slogan (‘We are all Muslims’). He doesn’t think that ATHEISTS like YOU are Muslim. He thinks YOU ARE A KAFIR who doesn’t deserve to LIVE … as he studies your head and neck.

    When Muslims look at your neck, ask yourself, ‘WHY IS THAT MUSLIM LOOKING AT MY NECK?’

    • Juhani says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 3:38 pm

      Everyone post this article link to Moore!

    • JIMJFOX says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      Moore is indeed a prize idiot. Extrapolating that to all atheists is every bit as idiotic. You plonker!
      Face it, Christianity is dying, sane people see right through it. It is a great shame that Islam is not
      going the same way. Abrahamic religions are sick, we’d be better off worshipping the Sun, or Wotan
      or better yet the Buddha.

      • Raja says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 8:59 pm

        JimjFox,

        Your comment that Christianity is dying is debatable. Well if you see though Islamic prism it might appear to be. because you know they lie all the time and in chorus. It should be noted that they are hell bent on extreme animosity towards Christianity of any form.and all religions.

        Christianity is dying where people are not seeking God but flourishing where there is persecution.

        Most mid eastern nations have abject human liberties where Satan is reigning.

        2 Corinthians 3
        17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

        Galatians 2
        4 But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

        James 1
        25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

      • Oliver says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 9:21 pm

        Fox. Speak for yourself.

        Many people have found solace in Judaism and Christianity.

        Several centuries ago in Holland there was a philosopher. He was born a Jew. But became an atheist
        He wrote a brilliant. At least for those times
        Theory about why there is no supreme being.

        However
        He still observed most Jewish customs
        For brevity and because most would not know why I. Referring to. Will stop there

        Friends went to him and asked
        You are an athiest. Your writings your theorems are brilliant. Why do you still observe Jewish customs. His response. I cannot prove or disprove my theories. Neither can anyone else. So. When i l die. If I was wrong and there is a Supreme Being. I can say. Yes
        I did not believe in you
        But followed your dictates.

        If thetew is not. Whom have I hurt
        Nobody. But perhaps I brought some solice to someone.

        Don’t believe in Judaism or Christianity. Don’t insult those of us who do.

        Half a century or so ago a leading weekly news magazine said by the year 2000. Be no Jews in the US. Long before 2000 the magazine was dead and gone.
        Judaism is alive

      • Truth 101 says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 10:17 pm

        Actually, Christianity isn’t dying. In fact, studies show that the world is poised to become MORE religious over the next few decades, with atheists’ share of the world population DECREASING.

        By the way, even Catholicism is growing worldwide at a rate slightly faster than the rate of population growth.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 12:30 am

        Jim, Christians are not your enemies. All those at risk from Islam should stand together–Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Agnostics, and Atheists.

      • Musalmaanmasala says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 2:31 am

        JimJFox,

        You are right Christianity is dying.
        Dying to save you from the pit you are headed to.

      • Demsci says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 3:21 am

        Jay Smith, a Christian himself, points out WHY, according to him, Christianity took big hits in losses; it was due to relentless Bible investigation and criticism, starting as early as the late eighteenth century.

        And now he himself, authors Tom Holland, our Robert Spencer, and many more of our own Islam-experts are examining, scrutinizing and mercilessly criticizing the impossible and untrue official Islamic story. Why, it is even asserted that, If there was a Mohammed, writer of Quran, that he probably lived in NOT MECCA but Petra!

        It took far too long, it seems, before the Western historians led and fuelled a movement and process to examine the origines and claims of Islam. Which is a very much fabricated and mostly untrue religion.

        It should be our great goal and hope that Islam gets the same sort of losses that Christianity got due to very stringent massive examination and criticism of it’s origines and holy texts. And publication and spread of the ensuing reality-message.

  3. RonaldB says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    We should adopt a pragmatic policy of using Islamic countries when it’s beneficial to us, while absolutely sealing them off from any influence on our countries. The Saudis are afraid of Iran, above all else, and so are useful allies in pressuring and isolating Iran. Similarly, Saudi Arabia has a love-hate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood and its al-qaeda/ISIS derivatives, which consider Saudi Arabia insufficiently jihadist. Again, there are potential grounds for limited, tactical alliances.

    What we can never do is allow Saudi money and political influence to play any role in US politics, education, communication or religious contributions. This is a matter for legislation; individuals will always respond to the allure of money. The Saudis will feel impelled to push the boundaries of how much influence they are allowed to wield, but will respect a strong country far more than a country with wishy-washy boundaries.

    The Saudi sentence of death for unorthodox thinking is a strong reminder that officially, Saudi needs to be hermatically sealed from any influence on US life: no contributions to US mosques, no immigration, no contributions to educational institutions, no purchase of US communications media, and no international students.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:24 pm

      “What we can never do is allow Saudi money and political influence to play
      any role in US politics, education, communication or religious contributions.”

      And THAT is precisely what all ‘western’ nations have been doing for 50 years!
      You’re a bit late realising that fact… Fossil fuels, anyone?

      • abad says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 6:43 pm

        Agreed, it is a bit late for that, as to whether Trump will adopt an isolationist policy (which in reality would not be bad for us as a nation since the ultimate test of a society’s maturity is self-sufficiency) remains to be seen…..

      • RonaldB says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 5:54 pm

        “You’re a bit late realising that fact… Fossil fuels, anyone?”

        Since you want to criticize me, your statement is just ignorant. If you look at fracking, oil shale recovery, tapping natural gas, North America and the US is pretty much energy independent, with fossil fuels. Government-subsidized boondoggles to use solar and wind energy is just a money-sucking sideshow.

        The Saudis are sitting on top of oceans of oil and have a sparse population. They will always have mountains of loose cash. Strategically, their oil cannot affect the US, but our politicians, educators, and newscasters-entertainers are always susceptible to cash investments. Therefore, it’s up to our government to limit the types of investments enemies or faint friends like the Saudis can make.

        People who don’t know what they’re talking about are always trying to get government money to replace fossil fuels. There’s already a glut of fossil fuels, and it’s being produced locally.

        • Oliver says

          Apr 29, 2017 at 12:09 am

          A point not made. The US government. Under Dems and Repubs have often tried to control or have say in foreign government elections.

          Obama was most open in the Israeli election and the Brexit voting.

          Others have done it. Although quote. Illegal under US law.

          Also. Bush and Obama both pushed American investment in Russia. A reward was Biden’s son becoming an officer and director of an oil co there.

          Podesta had long term relationships there.

          And it seems Gen Flynn is not the great all American he is made out to be and venerated by some in JW

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 4:10 pm

      Too many politicians benefit from Saudi money.

      And for all we know, George Soros may get some of that money, too.

    • Demsci says

      Apr 29, 2017 at 3:38 am

      Thanks for good analytic short peace, RonaldB. I mostly agree.

      – It seems to me that Iran is a big bogeyman for Saudi Arabia and that the West should use. It seems that one can see almost all Shiites behind or with Iran, but we also see that the Sunni Muslims are much more divided, so that Saudi’s and Muslim Brotherhood are even opposing each other. Good, these divisions among enemies.

      – Strong Western governments should IMO eventually strive for reasonable RECIPROCITY. In that representatives of Christians, Atheists and all other religions demand from Islamic countries the same equal treatment to the non-Muslims living in Islamic countries, that the adherents of those religions are already giving Muslims in the non-Muslim countries.

      If the primary categorization of mankind was in religions, including some “Miscellaneous category” I suppose, and this categorization trumps the one based on nationality,

      then it would clearly be seen how much the Muslims cheat. They seem to me en masse more loyal to religion than to nation-state. OK, so far so good.

      But then, isn’t it absurd that Muslims get equal treatment under the law in the countries of Christians and Atheists and Jews (Israel) while on their own turf the Muslims heavily oppress and censor the followers of the other religions?

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 8:00 pm

        Muslim countries will never treat Infidels as equals–they never have, since if goes against their vile creed.

  4. somehistory says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    When their favorite victims are not to be found, they will find others to slaughter.

    satan’s aim is to kill as many humans as he can…by any and all means….
    war, famine, disease, and by “wild beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6) …in the “ride of the four horsemen.’

    islam is a wild beast and makes its adherents wild beasts, lusting to kill.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 3:59 pm

      somehistory wrote:

      When their favorite victims are not to be found, they will find others to slaughter.
      …………………

      So true, Somehistory. Islam claims that all is peaceful once a society is entirely Islamic–but this is a sick lie.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 4:11 pm

        A transparent lie these days!

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 29, 2017 at 12:34 am

          True–the more Islamic a society is, the more violent.

          But some still don’t get it.

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    “Royal decrees under the late King Abdullah re-defined atheists as terrorists…”

    Please remember that whenever they try to deceive the world by claiming that they are allegedly “fighting terrorism” and issue protestation that they are our “allies.” Deceitful LIARS! Do you hear Messrs. (former) presidents? Do you hear Mr. (current) president?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 3:59 pm

      Spot on, Voytek.

  6. Irene Brekelmans says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Religion of Peace, look what happened in Pakistan, Moslims went into a school, pu gasoline over the teacher, set burning to death in front of his pupils, until he died, then took the children outside and beheaded them. Look at video http://10news dk/? p=323. Ignorance is bliss ! Look at it, you globalists/leftists, governments and presidents and democracies. How can you not feel bad about the religion of PEACE and be ashamed?

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 4:13 pm

      The globalists (who ARE leftists) WANT the world to be severely depopulated (6.5 Billion people to be eliminated), so they couldn’t care less how many people Muslims kill.

      In fact, they seem to be using the Muslims to eliminate the biggest stumbling block to that U.N. depopulation, western civilization.

  7. davej says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    This will be another lesson to the world about the Religion of Peace and it’s core values of tolerance and humanity.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 4:14 pm

      The problem is that the people in power KNOW what Islam is, and don’t have a problem with Muslims killing non-Muslims.

      If they had a problem, they would stop flooding their own countries with Muslims.

  8. Oliver says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    I think that this person is. Or if dead. Truly effing stupid.

    Posting views on social media.
    Anyone who does that. Especially illegal items is stupid. And using real name

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:04 pm

      How long will it be before they say the same thing about us in the West?

      • Oliver says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 4:51 pm

        Graven,

        I did not specify to Saudi Arabia (or the middle east) my comments- (Posting on social media—and the next sentence).

        I think the same is true of people here in the US who do this. Like the bastards in Chicago who raped the mentally handicapped guy. On FB live. besides their horrendously bad behavior, doing it on “SOCIAL MEDIA” – and using their real names. madness.

        I saw (read) some time back, in a group I briefly belonged to- where on FB one man talked about his extra-curricular activities (i.e.. his sex with hookers; ma mistress, etc.- while married).

        I am not on FB (nor twitter, nor Flicker, nor any of those )- And, I do not use my real name

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 29, 2017 at 12:40 am

          Oliver wrote:

          Graven,

          I did not specify to Saudi Arabia (or the middle east) my comments- (Posting on social media—and the next sentence).

          I think the same is true of people here in the US who do this…
          ……………………

          Oliver, surely you don’t mean that posters or other Anti-Jihadists who use their own names *deserve* to be slaughtered by ravening Mohamemdans?

          What about Anti-Jihadists like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller?

          Do you *really* want to live in a society where we cannot speak out against Islam?

  9. C T says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Why in the world are we allied with this horrible country? Because they (superficially, at least) let Israel exist? Is that the only reason? Is it still oil? Then frack and drill, baby, frack and drill in the USA. When I fill up my gas tank, I want it to be with confidence that I’m not helping finance a regime as evil as the Saudi one.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:07 pm

      Very much agree, C T.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:31 pm

      yep, still oil– https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6

      Import sources Gross imports Exports Net imports
      Total, all countries 10.06 5.19 4.87
      OPEC countries 3.45 (34%) 0.22 3.23
      Persian Gulf countries 1.76 (18%) 0.02 1.74

      So OPEC + Persian Gulf account for 52% of USA oil imports.
      There’s a long way to go….

      • Demsci says

        Apr 30, 2017 at 1:56 am

        Jim, thanks for the most interesting link,

        if you look closely at the members of OPEC and at the countries that form the Persian Gulf you will see a complete overlap of Persian Gulf Countries by OPEC-members; they are all members of OPEC! This of course means that the 18 % is already included in the 34 %. So 34 % is the real number, not 52 %.

        The situation is sinds mid 2014, when the price of oil began to fall, until it halved, much better for the Western oil importing countries, than for the oil exporting countries in OPEC, and Russia.

        The price of oil is now just below 50 dollar per vat. But Saudi Arabia needs it to be much more, I believe # 90 dollar per vat to make ends meet. And it has already used up huge amounts of it’s reserve. And by now the Western countries probably could switch suppliers if they wanted to, which must be known in Riyadh.

  10. miriamrove says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    And yet they got a seat on some kind of human right thing in the UN. m

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 4:23 pm

      Yes–and this is not the first time. Grotesque.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 4:17 pm

        And EVIL!

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 29, 2017 at 8:07 pm

        Yes.

  11. no_one says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    Poor guy. Saudis are crazy people, worse than the commies. I am afraid that in the US people may have it 2 in 1, islam and communism (with the lefties always screming at the top of their lungs).

  12. Monty says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    With friends like the Saudis……………….Oh, and no, I am not a Muslim, Mr Moore. You may be. Not me.

  13. gravenimage says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    Saudi Arabia: Man sentenced to be beheaded for atheism
    ………………………..

    *Horrifying*–this poor man. The vicious Saudis are no allies of ours.

    More:

    “If you’re a lowkey atheist that’s fine. But once you talk in public & criticize God or religion, then you shall be punished,” one such post read.
    ………………………..

    An apostate doesn’t even have to criticize Islam–just showing they are no longer a Muslim–as, for instance, eschewing going to the Mosque or observing Ramadan–is often enough to draw the vicious attention of the Ummah.

    • somehistory says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      In places like pakistan, one only has to raise the ire of a moslim to be accused of blasphemy or some other crime, and it’s off with the head by a rabid mob.

      (I know you know this.)

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 6:24 pm

        Very true, somehistory.

        The victim above may not even be an Atheist. Just being accused is often enough, and often no evidence is brought in court because it itself is deemed ‘blasphemous’.

        • Jeanette says

          Apr 28, 2017 at 4:19 pm

          Members of an organization whose motto seems to be “the more people killed, the better” can’t be expected to behave otherwise.

  14. Karen says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 4:31 pm

    “Well, the West, and especially the US has the death penalty, so what’s the diff?”

    That will be the typical response from the Left and their media allies, if some non-elite lodges an objection to the Saudi’s fiendish adherence to Sharia.

    But wait; regardless of what you think of the death penalty in the US, it is reserved for the worst of criminals; child killers, serial killers, and the like, and applied only after vast expense and numerous appeals that usually give the killer 20+ additional years. Years their victims didn’t get.

    This young Saudi is being put to death for a belief (or lack of one.) Big difference. 20-somehthing and his life is being taken from him by the Saudi religious enforcers.

    Why should the Saudi-funded Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Centers exist, ostensibly to promote religious tolerance with the West, when there is no religious tolerance of any kind inside the most world’s most rigorous Sharia state?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 6:25 pm

      Absolutely, Karen.

  15. Ciudadano says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    The article mentions other cases of people condemned to crucifixion and decapitation in AS by apostasy or insult Islam. Any resemblance to ISIS is no coincidence. ISIS just as AS apply sharia strictly, as demanded by the Koran. Not in vain the constitution of AS is the very coran, the “sacred” writing of the “religion of peace.” But all the time we hear that that ISIS distorts Islam. how come that AS, the cradle of Islam, also distorts the teachings of that religion?

    Now the big unknown. If ISIS is the one doing this half the world would be protesting, but in the case of AS the governments are silent, the media are silent, the liberal universities are silent and the activists are silent. The reason is very simple:

    AS donates hundreds of millions to powerful politicians around the world (eg Clinton)
    AS is the largest client of arms of USA
    AS is a shareholder in the main media
    AS funds programs at leading liberal universities

    In short AS has in the pocket half the world. That is why politicians, media and universities are silent when:

    AS commits war crimes in Yemen (the hidden war)
    AS finances and builds terrorist groups around the world: ISIS, Al-Nusra, etc.
    AS provides the “educational” material that ISIS uses
    More than half of ISIS members are citizens of AS
    AS fund madrasas and Salafist mosques radicals all over the world

    Instead of convictions and seizures against AS, rather:

    AS is a member of the UN human rights commission and recently appointed a member of the women’s human rights commission at the UN (and feminists wonder?). For much less than what AS Afghanistan and Iraq are being invaded, however, to the indignation of the decent people of the West, Western politicians call friends and allies to AS.

  16. FYI says

    Apr 28, 2017 at 6:33 am

    Of course the same fate awaits converts to islam if they subsequently decide to abandon islam…islamic apostates are sentenced to DEATH.
    Allah’s favorite punishment.Converts to islam may not realize that.

    Born again Christians have a song “I once was lost but now I’m found”.

    So I think converts to islam who like to follow the violent teachings of allah should have their own song:-

    “I once was lost but now… I’m fiend.And now I’ve found allah and I’m in jail for murder..I’m even more lost.Thanks allah!say is it OK if I leave islam..?”

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      Another reason Muslims should be confined to a new “Muslimland.”

      Those who want to escape Islam would be safe, if they could get out of Muslimland (and pass a lie polygraph test in the West).

  17. David says

    Apr 28, 2017 at 7:15 am

    Why would anyone in SA publicly declare their atheism and split from islam knowing full well what will happen to them?

    • Oliver says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 10:03 am

      Which is why I said that he was stupid.

    • Oliver says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 12:53 pm

      In my view- the person was stupid; you also did not l like my earlier comment that by being beheaded he raised the cumulative IQ.

      The man was dumb, and his defense not much better-using one capital offense as a defense for another. (I AM NOT SAYING THAT THE CAPITAL OFFENSES SHOULD BE CAPITAL OFFENSES, OR EVEN MISDEMEANORS, BUT THEY ARE, IN S.A.).

      That (he was dumb and/or stupid) or, he had a death wish to be a martyr for atheism.

      And, as I also posted- why would anyone post this on social media, where ilelgal, under their real name? (Why even post anything like this-my view- anything-on social media like FB, Twitter, etc). ( I am not on them-I did once-open a FB account, and have not been there since opened).

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 4:24 pm

        He definitely did not take the path that a reasonable, intelligent person would take.

        In SA, people with relatives who are mentally lacking usually keep them hidden from public view so that they WON’T be beheaded.

  18. Politicianphobia says

    Apr 28, 2017 at 10:38 am

    Jim Fox, I hope you find some peace in life. Your anger is at a boiling point. Don’t be afraid to go and sit in a church for an hour.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 4:26 pm

      +1

  19. Kim S OBrien says

    Jun 26, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    The King and his royal appointed ruling class government are absolutes despots like the Czar of Russia. He rules by royal decree and claims the title Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. The kingdom include 30% non Muslims and an oppressed Shiite minority. He maintains his grip on power with weapons marked made in the USA and a head chopping religious police. This is the regime that both parties support with Obama bowing to him and Trump shingle his hand.

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