Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group
Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group
Report comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman blamed 'bad laws' for death sentence against a Saudi man over social media posts
We are not happy with that. We are ashamed of that. But [under] the jury system, you have to follow the laws, and I cannot tell a judge [to] do that and ignore the law, because... that's against the rule of law," he said.
Listen: I don’t make the rules, I just think them up and write them down.
Just following orders..
“good soldiers follow orders…”
Before anyone comes in with "Religion of Peace" statements: Conservative Christians would do the same if they were in charge. Or in fact any hardliner + religion combo.
The Authoritarin Aspect is more the problem, then religion. But yes Religion is very susceptible to this.
Does anyone else feel like most other countries have kind of tilted towards the "American right" in the last few decades? Even France is not safe with its "if you don't like it you can leave." The issue is world wide and is bigger than religion.
It's like conservatism is a pandemic.
edit: Spelling.
Conservative Christians would do the same if they were in charge.
Good thing this is in no danger of happening!
So fuck all religions.
Science and statistics should be the only resource we refer to when creating legislation. Perfect.
Now if only we could get the rest of the fucking world on board and actually have a separation of churches and states.
Science and statistics should be the only resource we refer to when creating legislation. Perfect.
What science? The leader of the most powerful nation on the planet denied COVID existed, wanted people to drink bleach and incited violence against Chinese Americans because he wanted someone on the chopping block for his failure to recognise the pandemic as a legitimate problem and not a conspiracy to undermine his tenure as President.
The reason the world is actually dying right now; the reason humans are headed towards a self-inflicted extinction event, is because science is dead where it matters most.
Sure, separate Church from State, but we're kidding ourselves if we believe for a second that we're going to adopt science instead.
Yeah Saudi Arabia is such a wonderful bastion of modern progress values.
I'm sure Musk will ensure this never happens again. He's a free speech warrior. /s
USA ally, former president’s men using Nuremberg defense.
Saudi Arabia is so over the top with these laws.
This is why they became the second largest investor in Twitter
Just a reminder that in SA's point of view, this is "not tolerating the intolerant."
Religion of love!
lol look how happy that dude looks in the thumbnail. wish I had an entire nation to serve my whims... 😠
He's one smug mother fucker.
I just remember the famous Spiderman quotes "With great power comes great responsibilities" .
Government of Saudi Arabia should condemned for jailing many ulemas along with program to liberalization and secularization of Saudi society.
Those craaaaazy Muslims are at it again. What did the girl tweet, 'I am a human with rights that need to be respected, not a man's property' or something outrageous like that?
This is an issue with authoritarianism. I don't think it's ever accurate or useful blanket blaming Muslims.
(P.S let's not forget many of our countries buy Saudi oil, we're funding this regime and what it does.)
Islam is being used as a tool by these evil people to control the masses. Islam does not support any of these ideas of belittling woman, infact it empowers them instead as it gives them more rights and freedom than men in many cases.