Collimatrix Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 It occurred to me, while reading LoooSeR's account of how a bunch of peasants are clobbering the expensive Saudi military, that perhaps it was time to take a good, hard look at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. What a vibrant and wonderful country! Saudi Arabia leads the world in incest: Saudi Clerics have novel theories of science. They have a diversified, modern economy, which is definitely not unstable: Including a booming agricultural sector! What a swell place, with enlightened views on women! LoooSeR, LeuCeaMia, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 You mean you don't want to live in glorious wahabist paradise Colli? Where you can be beheaded for political protest? http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/25/opinions/coogle-saudi-arabia-death-sentence/ Or for the nebulous crime of witchcraft? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18503550 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I'd forgotten about that; this is the twenty first century and they're still executing people for witchcraft. They're cartoonishly evil and stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I'd forgotten about that; this is the twenty first century and they're still executing people for witchcraft. They're cartoonishly evil and stupid. I mean, when ISIS and Saudi Arabia fight, who do you cheer for? If only I didn't strongly suspect that the House of Saud has access to Pakistani nukes. Edit: The from wikipedia. CriticismThe use of public beheading or stoning as the methods of capital punishment and the number of executions have attracted strong international criticism.[33] Several executions, particularly of foreign workers have sparked international outcries. In June 2011 Ruyati binti Satubi, an Indonesian maid, was beheaded for killing her employer's wife, reportedly after years of abuse.[34][35] A video of the execution, posted online, drew extensive criticism.[36] In September 2011, a Sudanese migrant worker was beheaded for sorcery,[37] an execution which Amnesty International condemned as "appalling".[38] In January 2013 a Sri Lankan maid named Rizana Nafeek was beheaded after she was convicted of murdering a child under her care, an occurrence which she attributed to the infant choking. The execution drew international condemnation of the government's practises,[39] and led Sri Lanka to recall its ambassador.[40] These are not isolated cases. According to figures by Amnesty International, in 2010 at least 27 migrant workers were executed and, as of January 2013, more than 45 foreign maids were on death row awaiting execution.[41] Welp. Definitely do not want to send anyone I know there to work as a nanny or a maid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 IIRC it is Saudi Arabia's "tax system" that funnels money to jihadist groups around the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Iran might be a bunch of assholes, but I'd sure as shit take them over the Saudis. AdmiralTheisman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Saudi Arabia has the second highest rate of birth defects behind Sudan, that may or may not be related to the incest thing. Saudi Arabia also gives the CSA a run for its money on how racist it can be. Africans and East Asians are regarded as disposable workers who need naught be paid and are denied rights just like women. Hundreds of workers die each year in harsh conditions and their deaths are swept under the rug with no consequences. Saudi Arabia didn't abolish slavery in 1962. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Saudi prince was catched with 2 tons of drugs, today in Lebanon. Mohamed A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I mean, when ISIS and Saudi Arabia fight, who do you cheer for? If only I didn't strongly suspect that the House of Saud has access to Pakistani nukes. I want to make this absolutely clear; the only sane and humane course of action is to support the House of Saud against IS at this point. Saudi Arabia publicly executes something like a hundred people annually. For the Islamic State a hundred beheadings is a slow weekday afternoon. Saudi Arabia intermittently persecutes and attempts to force conversions of the 15% or so of the population that is Shiite. IS would just kill them all. The House of Saud presides over a justice system where men abusing their wives is ignored with a wink and a nod. IS has loud, public rhetoric about how Yezidi women will be taken as sex slaves and passed around executed if they fail to please, and they announce this in an attempt to attract foreign fighters to their cause. See the pattern? As wretched and awful as Saudi Arabia is, IS is very clearly worse. Moreover, IS came to power because of a power vacuum in Iraq; a power vacuum that occurred because the US had taken it upon themselves to eliminate a government there that was without and doubt, completely wretched and awful. Until the US gets better at forming replacement governments imperialism, knocking over bad governments is just going to cause them to be replaced by much worse, in the long run. So as bad as Saudi Arabia is, it's what the world is stuck with. If the world gets lucky. Mohamed A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Or let Russia liberate SA ????, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 You keep your hands off our oil source, mister commie. Blackhorse_Six 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 You keep your hands off our oil source, mister commie. Russia's going to invade Saudi Arabia, not Alberta. T___A, Blackhorse_Six and Belesarius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Russia's going to invade Saudi Arabia, not Alberta. Why can't they invade both? You make it sound like Russia can't liberate Alberta if it wanted to. That is just the next step after it liberates Alaska and starts a proxy war in Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperComrade Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I want to make this absolutely clear; the only sane and humane course of action is to support the House of Saud against IS at this point. No. You support the Houthis to create Houthi Arabia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 No. You support the Houthis to create Houthi Arabia. Wouldn't that be allying with Iran, basically? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 The clear option is to have Assad move to Saudi Arabia and take control of what is actually Novosyrriya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperComrade Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Wouldn't that be allying with Iran, basically? Iran would be a better ally than Saudi Arabia Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Iran would be a better ally than Saudi Arabia You know, I believe you on that. I can generally get along with most Persians that I've met/worked with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperComrade Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Most Iranians are fairly cool people, it's really only the leadership that the West has problems with. Even then, they're far more likely to work with us than the Saudis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I don't know. Looking at the initial photo graph that Colli posted, I'd wager much of the Islamic world is a backwards, laughable shithole. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and CrashbotUS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperComrade Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 It's all going to burn anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 It's all going to burn anywayI thought this was going to be about how a republican was going to be elected and nuke all the Middle East besides Israel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Iran might be a bunch of assholes, but I'd sure as shit take them over the Saudis. Iran has the advantage of actually being/having been very westernized and/or civilized in it's long history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Also historically the money generated in Iran have been concentrated in the hands of a few. Which prevents decadence you see in those Saudi princes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 The ridiculous list of "what not to do" booklet I got when I was there during a deployment was fucking hysterical. I'm going to poke around in my storage trunk and see if I still have it. Backwards isn't even a strong enough word to accurately describe that place. Donward and SuperComrade 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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