One of many mysteries: Why the U.S. kowtows to Saudi Arabia

[kscarbel2]

We no longer have the money, capability and national will to be the world’s policeman.

And I ordinarily don’t believe in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. (Why the Obama administration has decided to bypass Congress and send U.S. troops to Cameroon to engage in combat under the War Powers Act, rather than allow African Union troops handle this African problem, is another mystery).

But again and again, an ordinarily prudent person is forced to wonder why our government wants to be in bed with a country like Saudi Arabia which does NOT to any degree share the ethics, morals and values of civilized countries (we still claim to be one of those).

How is it possible that this country will now chair the United Nation Human Rights Council, and the United States didn't veto this absurd appoint (the certain will of the American people) ???

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Saudi man sentenced to be beheaded and crucified for attending anti-government protest

The Guardian / October 14, 2015

The mother of a Saudi protester sentenced to death by beheading and crucifixion has begged Barack Obama to intervene to save her son’s life.

In her first interview with foreign media, Nusra al-Ahmed, the mother of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, whose case has made headlines around the world, described the intended punishment as savage and “backwards in the extreme”.

Human rights groups including Amnesty International and Reprieve, the US talkshow host Bill Maher and the British prime minister, David Cameron, have all weighed in with calls for clemency to stop Nimr, who was 17 at the time of his arrest, from being beheaded and then crucified.

The oil-rich state is facing increasing diplomatic scrutiny over the severity of its penal system as it takes over the chair of the UN human rights council.

She said her son had been detained sometime after joining Shia demonstrators in the eastern coastal city of Qatif seeking equal religious rights in the Sunni-majority country.

The official charges leveled against Nimr included attending a protest, using his phone to encourage further support for the demonstrations and possessing a gun, an accusation which the family strongly denies.

“They were peaceful and civilized and legitimate and so my fear was, I was afraid for my son, but inside I agreed with them in principle.”

Visiting after his arrest, she says he has been tortured. “When I visited my son for the first time I didn’t recognize him. I didn’t know whether this really was my son Ali or not. I could clearly see a wound on his forehead. Another wound in his nose. They disfigured it. Even his body, he was too thin.”

“[When] I started talking to him [he told me that] during the interrogation [he was] being kicked, slapped, of course his teeth fell out … For a month, he was urinating blood. He said he felt like a mass of pain, his body was no more.”

She still had hope her son could be saved from his punishment imposed under Saudi’s sharia penal system and described the sentence – which would involve him being beheaded before his decapitated body is hung from a cross in public – as having been plucked out of the dark ages.

“I feel that one’s very being is repelled at such a ruling … It’s backwards in the extreme. No sane and normal human being would rule against a child of 17 years old using such a sentence. And why? He didn’t shed any blood, he didn’t steal any property. Where did they get it [this sentence]? From the dark ages?”

She believes the sentence was intended to punish her son for his Shia faith. “I don’t expect that anyone normal and sane has heard of such a thing, [no] normal person who is not sectarian would find such a thing acceptable. That’s why you find that always it’s sectarian people who are happy with such things because he’s a Shia.”

Calling on the US president to intervene she said: “He is the head of this world and he can, he can interfere and rescue my son … To rescue someone from harm, there is nothing greater than that. I mean my son and I are simple people and we don’t carry any significance in this world but despite that, if he [Obama] carried out this act, I feel it would raise his esteem in the eyes of the world. He would be rescuing us from a great tragedy.”

On Tuesday the UK government said it would be withdrawing its bid for a £5.9m contract to deliver training for Saudi prisons. That move came on the same day that Cameron said he would write to Riyadh to implore Saudi authorities not to carry out a punishment of 360 lashes on a British pensioner caught transporting homemade wine in his car. Last week Cameron appealed to the newly crowned king not to carry out the death sentence on Nimr.

The Saudi ambassador to the UN said, “We respectfully request the world to respect our systems and our judicial processes, and our laws and regulations, and not to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.”

Mouallimi said the kingdom would uphold the UN charter on human rights. “The application of sharia law as far as human rights is concerned is the highest form of human rights,” he said, adding: “We believe that we are holding ourselves to the highest standards. If that doesn’t please someone here or there, that’s their problem not ours.”

The Saudi UK embassy has said it rejects “any form of interference in its internal affairs”.

[Red Horse]

Well the real shocker is the bit about the Saudi's chairing the UN Human Rights Council. Oh wait-its the UN! Why does anything surprise me about this joke of an organization.

[41chevy]

Obama is sub servant to all Monarchs Embarrassment to the country if you ask me. Time was America bowed to no one, now we cower at the sight of even a spider.

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