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Saudi Arabia Still Uses Beheadings

Saudi Arabia Still Uses Beheadings
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Jan. 1, 2016, was a particularly bloody day in Saudi Arabia, where 47 prisoners were executed by use of the kingdom's favorite method of meting out justice: public beheadings. One of those put to the sword was the Prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Saudi Arabia Still Uses Beheadings

Although widely reported, news of these beheadings evidently eluded the attention of Donald Trump. Throughout the campaign and even as recently as past weeks, Trump has mischaracterized the practice in the Middle East of decapitating prisoners with a sword, contending that it is something that hasn't been done for centuries.

Now president and supposedly being briefed by intelligence experts, he remains blissfully ignorant regarding this gruesome form of execution. On Jan. 25, he told ABC News anchor David Muir that, "When they're chopping off the heads of our people, and other people... ‘ISIS' [Daesh/ISIL] is doing things that nobody has ever heard of since medieval times..."

Trump remains oblivious to what a major ally of the US in the region does on a routine basis for crimes as inconsequential as dissidence. Last year, an estimated 155 alleged criminals were beheaded in the kingdom.

Particularly troubling is Trump's view that it wouldn't be bad if Saudi Arabia had nuclear weapons. The thought of nukes in the hands of a theocratic dictatorship that is one of the world's most prolific human rights abusers and home to 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 2001, should send chills down the spine of any clear-thinking person.

Trump's ignorance is one thing; it's to be expected. Perhaps more troubling is that in almost two years not one journalist has challenged his untrue statement that not "since medieval times" has beheading been used in that region of the world.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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