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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-arabia-carries-beheading-king-28492388First Beheading Under New Saudi King Stirs Attention
Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.
The Interior Ministry said Moussa al-Zahrani was executed in the city of Jiddah. The ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said al-Zahrani was convicted of luring underage girls, intoxicating them, forcing them to watch pornographic videos and then physically and sexually assaulting them.
His alleged victims were children assaulted in 2011 in a string of attacks in Jiddah.
The case has caused a stir on social media which is unusual in Saudi Arabia for cases of violent crimes in part because al-Zahrani claimed his innocence throughout the trial and two later appeals.
Last year, al-Zahrani appealed in a 20-minute video for Saudi King Abdullah, who died on Friday, to intervene. In the widely-viewed video, the 45-year-old Arabic teacher claimed he was framed by police and that a man a neighbor of 10 years who accused him of molesting his daughter was also a police investigator in the case.
An Arabic hashtag on Twitter, "We are all Moussa al-Zahrani" garnered thousands of comments by Saudis with conflicting opinions over the case.
Al-Zahrani's relatives appeared on Saudi talk shows, saying the case was riddled with inconsistencies and that the judiciary did not weigh all the evidence. They claimed a medical report found the investigator's 10 year-old daughter had not been assaulted and that several cases of assault against young girls took place in Jiddah while al-Zahrani was already jailed.
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)scold India and Cuba on civil rights......
Why dosen't he take this opportunity on the world stage to say somehting to
this evil kingdom for the world to see and hear?
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Not convinced that beheading is much more terrible than what America does daily.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)What about the rapes in america which is higher than India per capital?
The number of women voting in Saudi Arabia, none there is no voting, driving cars ...etc?
Your arguement is bullshit its not just about beheadings......and you know that with your weak rationalization.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The weakness of the prosecution's case?
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Of nation's wrong doing...
Vs praising an evil kingdom
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)nt
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)and choose these assholes as allies because Obama says so.
I know the saudis help run the world banking systems and our media.
give me the 28 pages.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)"The Saudis" are a monolithic group now? How conveniently simplistic and stereotypical. Maybe they think "the Americans" are a monolithic group, too!
As for "the 28 pages"...Graham is selling a book. He was the former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee-you know, the one that among other things, helps stop terrorist attacks. Like 9/11.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)so that' arguement is dead
graham is selling his book........... are you really using that right wing point young democrat who posts all day?
Orsino
(37,428 posts)America loves executions and corrupt ideologies. If our president were suddenly to detour into condemning such things, it wouldn't be for a dead ally.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I doubt it.
merrily
(45,251 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or perhaps all three?
It seems like the biggest issue here is that this person was convicted of the death penalty on what appears to be flimsy evidence.
Secondarily, the punishment might be considered too harsh for the crime (if guilty).
Lastly, it seems like a less than enlightened way to implement the death penalty.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in SA is they tell you what you're charged with, promptly find you guilty and then execute you.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The other problems are all that ultra low cost production sweet oil, being an ally of Israel and a sworn enemy of Iran.
Paradoxes abound.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Dead men tell no tales.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)That's a step up from the barbaric nations in the region who stone women for getting raped.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)You need to read the whole piece.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Its a fucking kingdom........ I can't belive we have Saudi defenders now. And you are right
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)We don't need to bring civilzation to them....... they own part the corrupt system you defend
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Those countries ought to put diplomatic, cultural and economic pressure on other countries to adopt liberal values on gay rights, women's rights, freedom of speech and religion, etc, that are often called "Western", and are currently more prevalent in the West than in the non-West (although by no means unique to it), but should actually be universal.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I did the right thing.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Maybe that conversation can be re-opened. Though for most people, they are just happy to see cheap gas prices and don't want to do anything that may jeopardize that (and don't particularly care why it's happening).
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)on this planet.......its no longer about just oil