Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners to carry out public beheadings
Justice in Saudi Arabia is harsh under Wahhabism, the Islamic sect of the Saudi rulers, which calls for the execution of murderers, apostates, homosexuals, adulterers, fortune tellers (for performing magic), etc. Executions, except for adulterers who are stoned to death, are by beheading and carried out in public, as are amputations and floggings.
The Daily Mail reports that so far this year, the Saudi kingdom has carried out 89 public executions. To keep up with the rash of beheadings, the Saudis have advertised for eight new executioners, no experience needed. The beginners hired will be given a traditional sword and will train by beheading live sheep. The advertisement promises successful applicants an attractive benefits package including a housing allowance and six months’ sick leave on full pay.
Here is the Daily Mail’s description of the typical Saudi execution:
The condemned, wearing white robes, is driven to a public square in a police van. He is dragged from it by eight officers. The executioner is waiting. He is carrying a four-foot curved silver sword.
He is forced to kneel facing Mecca, and the executioner tests his blade by running it lightly across the prisoner’s exposed neck, making him flinch. There is a drain in the ground to collect the blood.
The executioner raises his sword, then powers it down on to the kneeling man’s neck, slicing through skin, muscle and bone. The head rolls away; the body topples to the ground.
The man’s head is put in a bag and attached to his body with rope. Then the corpse, head dangling, is hoisted on a crane and left to fester in the square for up to three days.
These are equal opportunity beheadings in that the executions of women in Saudi Arabia are carried out in the same way as those of men. That should make the feminists happy.
The new executioners will also carry out amputations on thieves, stoning adulterers to death and surgically paralyzing offenders under the strict eye-for-an-eye Sharia law.
Stoning victims are typically buried up to their waist or neck, unable to avoid the stones hurled at their head by a crowd of bystanders until they slowly die.
The public is encouraged to bring their children to watch beheadings, amputations, stonings and floggings so that they will see the consequences of breaking Wahhabi laws.
I have a very strong suspicion that, even though the crime rate in Saudi Arabia has risen sharply, it is still very low.
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Saudi Arabia is one of many repressive nations, which limits or does not release accurate information on true crime rates, death row numbers, or execution statistics. This gives the world public the false assertion that the use of the death penalty is a deterrent to crime. In almost all repressive nations around the world, various crimes are committed with total impunity (eg. honour killings by male family members, Iranian crime act 220 states that parents who kill their children cannot be prosecuted, under Islamic/Sharia law pedophilia is not a crime, domestic violence/killing is not a crime, blood money is permitted in exchange for not reporting serious crimes, adult males are permitted to marry girls as young as six years of age). The victims of crime/human rights abuses are systematically denied justice by the authorities – repeated and deliberate failure to bring offenders to justice. Crime rates and statistics from male-dominated oppressive regimes are unreliable because victims do not report certain crimes (eg. rape) or because the authorities alter/ignore the actual crime. Rape victims are imprisoned for adultery. Also, repressive nations impose the most extensive form of media censorship. Journalists and human rights activists face imprisonment without charges, human torture and some disappear without a trace. Aahhhhhh ... that almightly OIL !!!
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