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02-07-2015, 07:38 AM
Saudi Arabia, a world leader in beheadings (http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/13/opinion/whitson-saudi-flogging/), has a policy of carrying out the gruesome punishment in public to serve as a warning (http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/24/when-it-comes-beheadings-isis-has-nothing-over-saudi-arabia-277385.html) for other citizens. But as the arrest of the man who filmed a recent beheading demonstrates, the kingdom is much more wary of publicizing its brutal methods abroad.
The video, posted (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b89_1421360015) online on Saturday, Jan. 17, shows security officers subduing a black-clad woman pleading in Arabic before an executioner raises his sword and severs her head. Identified by the Saudi government as a Myanmar national, the woman was convicted by a court in Riyadh of murdering her husband’s daughter, and she was beheaded in Mecca.
On Sunday, Saudi police issued (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/middleeast/man-who-filmed-saudi-execution-is-reportedly-arrested.html) cybercrime charges against the unnamed policeman (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/man-who-filmed-woman-being-publicly-beheaded-in-mecca-reportedly-arrested-in-saudi-arabia-9988062.html)who took the video. Analysts say his arrest is difficult to square with Saudi Arabia’s official stance that beheadings are an appropriate punishment under Islamic law, and it likely reflects the government’s sensitivity to mounting criticism and uncomfortable parallels with the Islamic State extremist group.
Although Saudi Arabia is a key ally in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, it has come (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/mr-baird-how-are-saudi-arabias-beheadings-different-from-islamic-states/article21146919/) under fire (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/11/saudi-arabia-key-to-obamas-strategy-beheaded-at-least-8-people-last-month/) for carrying out the same sort of brutal punishments as the militants.
Public beheadings are a routine way for Riyadh to assert power, said Saudi scholar Madawi Al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Middle East Center. But, she said, the kingdom seems uncomfortable when footage of beheadings circulates internationally, “especially at a time when its competitor, IS, is doing the same thing.”
“It is just one example of Saudi contradictions,” Al-Rasheed said....http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/20/saudi-arabias-beheadings-are-public-but-it-doesnt-want-them-publicized/




Saudi Arabian government officials faced extreme backlash after a leaked video showed the brutal public beheading of a woman, who proclaimed her innocence as a man chopped off her head. The video led to many comparisons to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), who also behead their victims in public.
Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour al-Turki told NBC News the punishments are not similar, since the Islamic State “has no legitimate way to decide to kill people.”
“When we do it in Saudi Arabia, we do it as a decision made by a court,” he explained (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/isis-beheadings-saudi-punishments-difference-clear-n296876). “The killing is a decision, I mean it is not based on arbitrary choices, to kill this and not to kill this. When you kill somebody without legitimate basis, without justice system, without court, that is still a crime whether you behead them or kill [them] with a gun.”
Middle East news site Middle East Eye tweeted a picture (http://www.christianpost.com/news/is-saudi-arabia-as-bad-as-isis-kingdoms-harsh-capital-punishment-rivals-terror-group-says-middle-east-news-site-132955/) that shows similarities between Islamic State and Saudi Arabia punishments.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7z1HcsCUAEliRF.jpg
The Islamic State and Saudi Arabia kill people who commit blasphemy, acts of homosexuality, treason, and murder. Death by stoning is reserved for those who commit adultery. Saudi expert Ali al-Ahmed said (http://www.ibtimes.com/saudi-arabia-defends-public-beheadings-after-isis-comparisons-1802930) their “absolute monarchy rely on the same ideology and system of religious interpretation in their approach to punishment.” The government beheaded a murderer on Sunday, which puts the nation’s total number of executions at 17 for 2015.
In August 2014, Amnesty International reported the Saudi kingdom executed a person “almost every day” (http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/beheadings-at-record-levels-saudi-arabia-executes-dozens-in-deadly-august/story-fnh81ifq-1227037172765) during the month. The charity claimed (http://www.ibtimes.co.in/saudi-arabia-publicly-beheads-burmese-woman-by-sword-woman-shouts-i-did-not-kill-i-did-not-kill-620619) the kingdom carried out 22 executions “between August 4 and August 22, compared to 17 executions between January and July” of 2014. In total, the kingdom executed 87 people in 2014, compared to the 78 in 2013.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/03/saudi-arabia-our-beheadings-are-more-legitimate-than-the-islamic-states/

Saudi Arabi is the HOME and source of the WORSE form of Islam.
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