Saudi Arabia hosting UN Human Rights
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UPDATED: Saturday, August 8, 2026 21:58
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Bout the only way I can see to straighten out Saudi Arabia's laws is to have a constituional monarchy like Britian. I know they have a Parliament but I think it bows to the Royal family, so it really doesn't count as a governing body. It won't happen right now as it means that tribal differences have to be put aside to form a cohesive unit to fight for it.
Saudi Arabia contains the root of radical Islam through Wahhabism, an intolerant and puritanical form of Islam that has undoubtedly influenced and feeds modern extremism in the Muslim world. Nobody would have cared two bits for a bunch of hardline desert Arabs, if they hadn't discovered oil and become incredibly powerful.
You cant change what happens within a country, not easily anyway and not without repercussions for the ones wanting change. But you can refuse to deal with countries that abhorrent human rights abuses. Of course it also helps if you can clean up your own backyard before preaching to others.
Another reason to move away from reliance upon fossil fuels. The sooner nations can say 'stick your oil' the better.
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One of the articles that woke me up to the horrors of Saudi Arabia came out well over 25 years ago, when I was still young enough and had enough free time to read the "thick form" women's magazines. There was a competitor to Cosmopolitan .... I don't remember which one .... that had a long story that I started reading and couldn't put down.
In it, they described the then-current culture of Saudi Arabia (which has only become more intolerant through the years, if anything) which held Saudi women under slave-like conditions. At the time, there were a lot of American soldiers based there.
Well, there were two teenage Saudi girls of fairly wealthy means ... families lived in what we would think of as "upper middle class" surroundings ... who took a shine to foreign servicemen - Americans, in particular. They cooked up a plan whereby they could see Americans and would do "anything but" take off their veils. (The idea, I think, was that with their veils on they couldn't be positively ID'd after the fact.)
But after not more than a few months, their activities were discovered by their families.
What was to become of these young women?
The first was married off to some desert geezer.
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The second was bound, wrapped in cloth, weighted with stones, and drowned in the family swimming pool.
I've since spoken with an Ethiopian who personally knew Ethiopians working for Saudi families. I learned about one women in particular - known to my co-worker - who worked as a maid, whose teenage son was raped and killed by one of the (many) Saudi princes. When she complained, they threw her $500 and told her to go away.
Reading the stories of Ethiopian, Somali, Malaysian etc maids who work there- is a constant story of endless work, rape, and non-payment, where their passports are held by the employer to keep their slaves from running away.
If you're male, and a member of the royal tribe (which has about 3000 members), you're also reasonably wealthy and allowed anything ... and I mean anything ... in your family compound. Drugs (including alcohol), slavery, murder ... Not only is Saudi Arabia "puritanical", it is incredibly corrupt. Which is why they want Wahhabism, BUT NOT IN THEIR COUNTRY. For export, only!
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Perhaps our news is different, but we get a fair degree of information on saudi arabia on these issues. Particularly as from time to time a foreigner gets caught up in something and gets sentenced to death or lashing. Occasionally a terrible story emerges about some poor woman stoned to death for being raped.
A lot of australians work in Saudi Arabia because you can earn enormous amounts of money, but its a pretty horrid existence stuck in western enclaves.
Naw, we hear the same reports. For a lot of years I saw it as something that was sad but over there. Now that this stone age culture is affecting the world including us, I would like to see it become to painful a way of life for them to maintain which forces change.
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the Saudi/Qatar sponsored BBC exposed!!
Europe faces a refugee disaster
will this arrive in America soon?
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I guess you feel like the Ukrainians after being invaded by the Russians.
Putin more dangerous than ISIS and Kim Jong Un combined, Kasparov
"He says Vladimir Putin is pure evil – a fascist, more dangerous than Kim Jong Un and Islamic State (ISIS) combined."
http://yalibnan.com/2015/11/08/putin-more-dangerous-than-isis-and-kim-
jong-un-combined-interview/
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19-Year-old Gang Rape Victim to Receive 200 Lashes and 6 Months in Jail in Saudi Arabia
https://www.atheistalliance.org/regional-reports/middle-east-english/1
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The upholding of a decision to punish the victim triggered international outcry.
Canada said it would complain to Saudi authorities about the sentence, described as "barbaric"' by Jose Verger, the Canadian minister responsible for the status of women.
The New York based Human Rights Watch said the verdict "not only sends victims of sexual violence the message that they should not press charges, but in effect offers protection and impunity to the perpetrators."
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19-Year-old Gang Rape Victim to Receive 200 Lashes and 6 Months in Jail in Saudi Arabia
https://www.atheistalliance.org/regional-reports/middle-east-english/1
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The upholding of a decision to punish the victim triggered international outcry.
Canada said it would complain to Saudi authorities about the sentence, described as "barbaric"' by Jose Verger, the Canadian minister responsible for the status of women.
The New York based Human Rights Watch said the verdict "not only sends victims of sexual violence the message that they should not press charges, but in effect offers protection and impunity to the perpetrators."
There is something eerily familiar about your subjective posting style and source material choices.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
There is something eerily familiar about your subjective posting style and source material choices.
put down the bong and step away from the computer
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
There is something eerily familiar about your subjective posting style and source material choices.
put down the bong and step away from the computer
Don't do drugs or even really drink for that matter. No, it is what it is. Your links are there for all to see. Look at the crew from skeptic fence you keep referring to. If I saw those guys outside my house I'd call the cops.
Talk about putting down the bong. Maybe it is you who should, as well as your buddies on skeptic fence.
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