Retired Arab teacher humiliates Iranian Mullah "President"

[idune]

Are you dumb or just drunk Bengali?

The House of Saud are not "bombing" anyone in KSA nor does any part of KSA want autonomy or a "different" state. We don't have a "Kurdish problem". We are an Arab and Semitic country. It is true that many Saudi Arabians hail from other parts of the Arab world etc. but we are all Arab. Or Semites.

Also you must have mistaken the Saudi government for the Mullah regime in Iran that killed hundred of its own citizens in 2009 during the protests there after the "elections" were faked as usual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–10_Iranian_election_protests

Well, here you go - see reflection of Saudi brutality:

Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security
Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security | Amnesty International USA

 

[al-Hasani]

Kurds in Iran differ from Kurds elsewhere. Why? Simple: elsewhere, Kurds are living among non-Iranian people like the Arabs or Turks, while culturally Kurds and other Iranians are much more similar. The issue in Iran is political, not cultural or ethnical.



Local Caucasian people, especially before the Turkic migration, were Iranian or at least Indo-European speaking.

Oh, is that why the Baluch and Kurds have independence movements in Iran? Still retain their own unique culture, language etc. And have a conscience about who they are?

Interestingly Caucasian peoples have as high a percentage of Haplogroup J-P209 (known as a haplogroup most common among Semites and associated with them and its possible origin is the Arabian Peninsula) as Arabs on the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East. In some cases even more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J-P209

The Caucasus is a very interesting region and linguistically most are native Caucasians or Turkish people.

Well, here you go - see reflection of Saudi brutality:

Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security
Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security | Amnesty International USA

Oh, you could not elaborate on your false and lunatic claims. As expected. I don't care about Amnesty International Reports nor do they even correspondent to your insane claims.

We know that no Middle Eastern country is democratic let alone any non-Western country in the eyes of them. You have not invented the holy grail.

Besides you can look up the Iranian report or your own.

 

[Surenas]

LOL, you troll and wannabe Semite (Jew). You are criticizing Islam and Arabs while you claim to be a Jew despite both Arabs and Jews being Semites aside from the close ties of Judaism and Islam. Guess from which region and people they originated from.

That's like a Tajik (Indo-Iranian) criticizing a Persian for being a Indo-Iranian.

Stupid clown.

No. That's like an Iranian criticizing Germanic culture, while both Iranians and Germans are part of the Indo-European speaking people.

 

[esfahanijew]

Oh, is that why the Muslim (Middle East) was at its highest both military, in terms of area, culture, influnece when we Arabs ruled as Caliphs for 1000 years and where 95% of all the Islamic conquests took place?

Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid (Shia Caliphate in Egypt ruled by Yemeni Arabs). Or Al-Andalus.

What exactly did the Safavid Azeri Turks leave in the region aside from murdering thousands of Iranian Sunnis and Iraqi Sunnis and importing Shia Arab Mullah's from Southern Iraq and the Eastern province of KSA many of whom are still ruling Iran to this very day? Before they were ultimately defeated by the Sunni Pashtuns whom they tried to invade?

Or the Ottomans who banned books? What did they give the region? The Arab world or Iran?

All that work was Berber and persian work arabs and Turks barbarians cultural thieves
The Abbasid library that build by harun al rashid the first books were persian and Assyrian books
The arabs translated the Greek books by using Syriac aramean translators the arabs only translated and stole the civilizations of others.
The Fatimid empire was founded by persians and Berbers Abu Abdullah al shiee was persian with the help of Berbers established the Fatimid

 

[al-Hasani]

Seriously you need help. Falsifying history is not going to help you. I just let those absurd and false claims speak for itself. Nothing more to add Wannabe Jew and Semite. Everyone can look information up and tell your absurd/false claims apart from the real ones.

Indo-Iranians and Indo-Europeans are not the same and Germans are completely different people in terms of genetics than Middle Eastern people such as Iranians. So are all other Europeans.

Just like English-speaking Papuans are not the same as English-speaking Nigerians or English speaking Brits.

 

[Surenas]

Indo-Iranians and Indo-Europeans are not the same and Germans are completely different people in terms of genetics than Middle Eastern people such as Iranians. So are all other Europeans.

Indo-Iranians are part of the Indo-European peoples. And there is a genetic overlap, especially in the eastern part of Greater Iran.

Just like English-speaking Papuans are not the same as English-speaking Nigerians or English speaking Brits.

Poor comparison. Pashtuns and Nigerian only recently speak English, while the people I talk about have a 5000 year old history of speaking an Indo-European language, common cultural elements found among both people (Iranian and Germanic/Celtic mythology shares many similarities), etc.

 

[idune]

Oh, you could not elaborate on your false and lunatic claims. As expected.

Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemen Rebels

SAN'A, Yemen — Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion, Arab diplomats and the rebels said.

The Saudis – owners of a sophisticated air force they rarely use – have been increasingly worried that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill over to their country, the world's largest oil exporter. The offensive came two days after the killing of a Saudi soldier, blamed on the rebels.

Yemen denied any military action by Saudi Arabia inside its borders. But Yemen's president is a key ally of the Saudis, making it highly unlikely the kingdom would have launched the offensive without tacit Yemeni agreement.

A U.S. government official said the Yemenis were not involved militarily in the fighting. The official spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The offensive immediately raised concerns of another proxy war in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. Shiite Iran is believed to favor the rebels in Yemen while Saudi Arabia, which is Sunni, is Iran's fiercest regional rival.

The same dynamic has played out in various forms in Lebanon, where Iran supports the Shiite militant Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia favors a U.S.-backed faction, and in Iraq, where Saudi Arabia and Iran have thrown support to conflicting sides in the Sunni-Shiite struggle.

A top Saudi government adviser confirmed "a large scale" military operation underway on the Saudi-Yemeni border with further reinforcements sent to the rugged, mountainous area.

"It is a sustained operation which aims to finish this problem on our border," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. He said Saudi troops were coordinating with Yemen's army, but Yemen's defense ministry denied the Saudis were inside the country.

The northern rebels, known as Hawthis, have been battling Yemeni government forces the past few months in the latest flare-up of a sporadic five-year conflict. They claim their needs are ignored by a Yemeni government that is increasingly allied with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists, who consider Shiites heretics.

The rebels said the Saudi airstrikes hit five areas in their northern stronghold Thursday but it was not possible to independently verify the reports. They said there were dead and wounded, and that homes were destroyed. The rebels' spokesman said people were afraid to get near the areas being bombed, making it difficult to count the casualties.

"Saudi jets dropped bombs on a crowded areas including a local market in the northern province of Saada," Hawthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Salam told The Associated Press. "They claim they are targeting al-Hawthis, but regrettably they are killing civilians like the government does."

He said the attacks were followed by hundreds of artillery shells from the border.

"So far, three killed have been pulled out of the rubble, including a woman and a child who perished when their houses were bombed and burned down," said Abdel-Salam.

The fighting is more than 600 miles from Saudi Arabia's oil fields on the kingdom's eastern Persian Gulf coast. But northern Yemen overlooks the Red Sea, the world's busiest route for oil tankers.

Two Arab diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saudi Tornado and F-15 warplanes had been bombarding targets inside Yemen since Wednesday afternoon, inflicting significant casualties on rebels. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media.

They said army units and special forces also had been sent to northern Yemen, and that several Saudi towns on the border had been evacuated as a precaution.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters he had no information about whether the conflict had spread across the border but expressed Washington's concern over the situation.

"It's our view that there can be no long-term military solution to the conflict between the Yemeni government and the Hawthi rebels," Kelly said. "We call on all parties to the conflict to make every effort to protect civilian populations and limit damage to civilian infrastructure."

The weak central government of Yemen, which has little control outside the capital San'a, is fighting on multiple fronts including the northern rebels and a separatist movement in the south. But the most worrisome is a lingering threat from al-Qaida militants.

The U.S. also fears any Yemeni fighting could spill over into Saudi Arabia and is concerned that Yemen could become a haven for al-Qaida militants hiding out in the nation, at the tip of the Arabian peninsula.

The Yemeni government openly accuses Iran of arming the Hawthis rebels, but there has been no public evidence to back those claims, said Joost Hiltermann, deputy program director of the Middle East program for the International Crisis Group think tank in London.

"I think Iran is probably pleased with what is happening, but that is not the same as saying they are supporting the Hawthis," Hiltermann said.

Simon Henderson, director of Gulf and energy policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, agreed that there is no clear evidence that Iran funds the rebels. But he said there is a wide assumption that Iran favors the Hawthis and the Saudis are backing Yemen's Sunni president.

"So it is a Saudi-Iranian proxy war," he said.

Saudi Arabia, rich in oil, has one of the world's most sophisticated air forces but rarely uses it.

The bulk of its air power, with more than 350 combat aircraft, derives from squadrons of F-15s and British-supplied Tornados, according to the military and intelligence analysis group GlobalSecurity.org. The kingdom also for decades has received U.S. military assistance in the form of training.

The Saudi incursion marks the first time since the 1991 Gulf War that the country has deployed military might beyond its borders.

In that war, Saudi forces assisted the U.S. Marine Corps, providing staging grounds for airstrikes and in joint operations targeting Iraqi positions in Kuwait with artillery fire and ground offensives.

The incursion is not, however, Saudi Arabia's first involvement in internal Yemeni conflicts. During Yemen's 1962-70 civil war, sparked by a military coup that overthrew Yemen's royalist government, Saudi Arabia supported the royalists against the Egyptian-backed government.

When civil war erupted again in 1994, it was widely believed that the Saudis sided with southern secessionist rebels against the central government.

A security official told Saudi Arabia's state news agency that the soldier died when gunmen infiltrated from Yemen and attacked security guards patrolling the Mount Dokhan border area Tuesday. Rebels said that area was among the bombing targets Thursday.

The Gulf Cooperation Council, the region's main diplomatic forum, condemned what it called the "violation and infiltration" of Saudi Arabia's borders. "Saudi Arabia is capable of protecting its lands," it warned in a statement.

Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemen Rebels

 

[al-Hasani]

Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemen Rebels

SAN'A, Yemen — Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion, Arab diplomats and the rebels said.

The Saudis – owners of a sophisticated air force they rarely use – have been increasingly worried that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill over to their country, the world's largest oil exporter. The offensive came two days after the killing of a Saudi soldier, blamed on the rebels.

Yemen denied any military action by Saudi Arabia inside its borders. But Yemen's president is a key ally of the Saudis, making it highly unlikely the kingdom would have launched the offensive without tacit Yemeni agreement.

A U.S. government official said the Yemenis were not involved militarily in the fighting. The official spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The offensive immediately raised concerns of another proxy war in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. Shiite Iran is believed to favor the rebels in Yemen while Saudi Arabia, which is Sunni, is Iran's fiercest regional rival.

The same dynamic has played out in various forms in Lebanon, where Iran supports the Shiite militant Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia favors a U.S.-backed faction, and in Iraq, where Saudi Arabia and Iran have thrown support to conflicting sides in the Sunni-Shiite struggle.

A top Saudi government adviser confirmed "a large scale" military operation underway on the Saudi-Yemeni border with further reinforcements sent to the rugged, mountainous area.

"It is a sustained operation which aims to finish this problem on our border," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. He said Saudi troops were coordinating with Yemen's army, but Yemen's defense ministry denied the Saudis were inside the country.

The northern rebels, known as Hawthis, have been battling Yemeni government forces the past few months in the latest flare-up of a sporadic five-year conflict. They claim their needs are ignored by a Yemeni government that is increasingly allied with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists, who consider Shiites heretics.

The rebels said the Saudi airstrikes hit five areas in their northern stronghold Thursday but it was not possible to independently verify the reports. They said there were dead and wounded, and that homes were destroyed. The rebels' spokesman said people were afraid to get near the areas being bombed, making it difficult to count the casualties.

"Saudi jets dropped bombs on a crowded areas including a local market in the northern province of Saada," Hawthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Salam told The Associated Press. "They claim they are targeting al-Hawthis, but regrettably they are killing civilians like the government does."

He said the attacks were followed by hundreds of artillery shells from the border.

"So far, three killed have been pulled out of the rubble, including a woman and a child who perished when their houses were bombed and burned down," said Abdel-Salam.

The fighting is more than 600 miles from Saudi Arabia's oil fields on the kingdom's eastern Persian Gulf coast. But northern Yemen overlooks the Red Sea, the world's busiest route for oil tankers.

Two Arab diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saudi Tornado and F-15 warplanes had been bombarding targets inside Yemen since Wednesday afternoon, inflicting significant casualties on rebels. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media.

They said army units and special forces also had been sent to northern Yemen, and that several Saudi towns on the border had been evacuated as a precaution.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters he had no information about whether the conflict had spread across the border but expressed Washington's concern over the situation.

"It's our view that there can be no long-term military solution to the conflict between the Yemeni government and the Hawthi rebels," Kelly said. "We call on all parties to the conflict to make every effort to protect civilian populations and limit damage to civilian infrastructure."

The weak central government of Yemen, which has little control outside the capital San'a, is fighting on multiple fronts including the northern rebels and a separatist movement in the south. But the most worrisome is a lingering threat from al-Qaida militants.

The U.S. also fears any Yemeni fighting could spill over into Saudi Arabia and is concerned that Yemen could become a haven for al-Qaida militants hiding out in the nation, at the tip of the Arabian peninsula.

The Yemeni government openly accuses Iran of arming the Hawthis rebels, but there has been no public evidence to back those claims, said Joost Hiltermann, deputy program director of the Middle East program for the International Crisis Group think tank in London.

"I think Iran is probably pleased with what is happening, but that is not the same as saying they are supporting the Hawthis," Hiltermann said.

Simon Henderson, director of Gulf and energy policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, agreed that there is no clear evidence that Iran funds the rebels. But he said there is a wide assumption that Iran favors the Hawthis and the Saudis are backing Yemen's Sunni president.

"So it is a Saudi-Iranian proxy war," he said.

Saudi Arabia, rich in oil, has one of the world's most sophisticated air forces but rarely uses it.

The bulk of its air power, with more than 350 combat aircraft, derives from squadrons of F-15s and British-supplied Tornados, according to the military and intelligence analysis group GlobalSecurity.org. The kingdom also for decades has received U.S. military assistance in the form of training.

The Saudi incursion marks the first time since the 1991 Gulf War that the country has deployed military might beyond its borders.

In that war, Saudi forces assisted the U.S. Marine Corps, providing staging grounds for airstrikes and in joint operations targeting Iraqi positions in Kuwait with artillery fire and ground offensives.

The incursion is not, however, Saudi Arabia's first involvement in internal Yemeni conflicts. During Yemen's 1962-70 civil war, sparked by a military coup that overthrew Yemen's royalist government, Saudi Arabia supported the royalists against the Egyptian-backed government.

When civil war erupted again in 1994, it was widely believed that the Saudis sided with southern secessionist rebels against the central government.

A security official told Saudi Arabia's state news agency that the soldier died when gunmen infiltrated from Yemen and attacked security guards patrolling the Mount Dokhan border area Tuesday. Rebels said that area was among the bombing targets Thursday.

The Gulf Cooperation Council, the region's main diplomatic forum, condemned what it called the "violation and infiltration" of Saudi Arabia's borders. "Saudi Arabia is capable of protecting its lands," it warned in a statement.

Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemen Rebels

The same Houthi rebel cultists (Shia Zaydis) that attacked KSA soil and terrorized ordinary Yemeni citizens to such an extent that Ali Abdullah Saleh (pan-Arab and Shia Zaydi himself) had to fight against them together with KSA and we defeated them btw?

I know that you are a frustrated Shia (tiny minority in the Muslim world) and even a more tiny if not microscopic minority in Bangladesh but try to limit your lunacies. It's late here and I have an assignment to write before tomorrow night.

Also I did not know that Yemen was part of KSA.

 

[idune]

Children in Yemen Killed by Saudi Bombs

In their quest to quell the Houthi rebellion in northern Yemen, (its not a civil war but may become one), the Saudis continue indiscriminately bombing deep inside Yemeni territory. Following months of bombing by the Yemeni air force, the latest bombing raid by Saudi warplanes in Yemen occurred at noon yesterday in Mithab in the Al Ammar Distict. Three huge bombs landed, residents report. One hit a house, killing seven women and children and injuring 9 others. Medicine (as well as food) is under embargo by the Yemeni government in the war zones. International humanitarian groups including medical workers have been prohibited access to the conflict areas. It is very likely the nine severely injured women and children have nothing to treat their injuries or pain, and will endure hours and days of agony if they live that long. It is estimated that hundreds of women and children have been killed in the war effort that the Yemeni military dubbed "Operation Scorched Earth."

Over 175,000 civilians have fled the fighting since August, but only a fraction are in UN refugee camps. The camps themselves are woefully understocked. The UN continues to have difficulty obtaining funding for its relief efforts. Access to the refugees is severely limited, and many thousands have spent months without any support whatsoever.

Children Killed
1. Hassan Amir Muthanna Amir
2. Amin Muthanna Amir
3. Hassan Hadi Abdullah Amir

Women Killed
1. Nashra Hadi Zeid
2. Fatima Muthanna Amir
3. Ramia Ali Muthanna Amir
4. Hinah Muthanna Amir

Injured Women and Children:

1. Qirfishah Mohammed Wasil
2. Zeid Ali Muthanna Amir
3. Naifah Salih Mujammal
4. Asaad Muthanna Amir
5. Maryam Saghir Muthanna Amir
6. Hind Muthanna Amir
7. Safa Muthanna Amir
8. Omar Muthanna Amir
9. Aminah Ali Mujrim

The Jawa Report: Children in Yemen Killed by Saudi Bombs

 

[al-Hasani]

Children in Yemen Killed by Saudi Bombs

In their quest to quell the Houthi rebellion in northern Yemen, (its not a civil war but may become one), the Saudis continue indiscriminately bombing deep inside Yemeni territory. Following months of bombing by the Yemeni air force, the latest bombing raid by Saudi warplanes in Yemen occurred at noon yesterday in Mithab in the Al Ammar Distict. Three huge bombs landed, residents report. One hit a house, killing seven women and children and injuring 9 others. Medicine (as well as food) is under embargo by the Yemeni government in the war zones. International humanitarian groups including medical workers have been prohibited access to the conflict areas. It is very likely the nine severely injured women and children have nothing to treat their injuries or pain, and will endure hours and days of agony if they live that long. It is estimated that hundreds of women and children have been killed in the war effort that the Yemeni military dubbed "Operation Scorched Earth."

Over 175,000 civilians have fled the fighting since August, but only a fraction are in UN refugee camps. The camps themselves are woefully understocked. The UN continues to have difficulty obtaining funding for its relief efforts. Access to the refugees is severely limited, and many thousands have spent months without any support whatsoever.

Children Killed
1. Hassan Amir Muthanna Amir
2. Amin Muthanna Amir
3. Hassan Hadi Abdullah Amir

Women Killed
1. Nashra Hadi Zeid
2. Fatima Muthanna Amir
3. Ramia Ali Muthanna Amir
4. Hinah Muthanna Amir

Injured Women and Children:

1. Qirfishah Mohammed Wasil
2. Zeid Ali Muthanna Amir
3. Naifah Salih Mujammal
4. Asaad Muthanna Amir
5. Maryam Saghir Muthanna Amir
6. Hind Muthanna Amir
7. Safa Muthanna Amir
8. Omar Muthanna Amir
9. Aminah Ali Mujrim

The Jawa Report: Children in Yemen Killed by Saudi Bombs

Eh, keep trolling. Civilian casualties will always happen during any war. Flyers were given long before the attacks warning civilians not to stay. It was the fault of the tiny Houthi cult that rebelled against the Yemeni government led by a secular Shia Zaydi pan-Arab (Ali Abdullah Saleh) and for invading KSA soil. They got a lesson that they have remembered ever since and are now roaming in the mountains/forests of Yemen.

 

[idune]

The Saudi monarchy’s harsh crackdown on dissent

Late last month in Saudi Arabia, tens of thousands of people marched in a funeral for two activists killed by the police. “Death to Al Saud,” they chanted in what was perhaps the largest demonstration in a protest movement that began in January 2011, when a 65-year-old man self-immolated. While most protests have taken place in the Shiite areas of Eastern Province, Sunnis have also sporadically taken to the streets, and there’s been a surge of dissent online.

The protests—and the resulting government crackdown—have gone largely unnoticed in the United States. While it’s understandable that the turmoil elsewhere in the region has taken precedence, events in Saudi Arabia should be getting more attention given the country’s global significance and the decades of U.S. support for its autocratic ally.

Saudi Arabia is a human rights horror show, especially for women, religious minorities, and migrant workers, who make up a majority of the workforce. Under a guardianship system, men treat women as minors. Girls as young as nine are forced to marry. In 2009, a female victim of gang rape was accused of “adultery,” beaten, and imprisoned. An absolute monarchy and theocracy that has no written penal code, the government prohibits the public exercise of any faith other than Islam, has beheaded people for “sorcery,” and routinely imprisons people without charge or trial and tortures them.

Yet in 2012, according to Human Rights Watch, not once did a U.S. official publicly condemn Saudi Arabia for human rights abuses. American priorities are clear. On June 25th, two days after Saudi police killed Shiite activist Morsi Ali Ibrahim al-Rabah, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared in Jeddah with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and said that “protecting the stability” of the monarchy and other governments in the region is “the most important” issue.

The stability of the Saudi government enables the United States to pursue its core objectives in the region: accessing oil, checking the influence of Iran, and waging its war against al-Qaida and “associated forces.” American oil companies and arms manufacturers have a huge stake in the U.S-Saudi alliance. The United States is sending Saudi Arabia $60 billion worth of weapons to upgrade its air force—the single largest arms deal in U.S. history.

The countries were trying to seal that deal in 2011 when King Abdullah expressed displeasure over what he regarded as U.S. support for the region’s democratic uprisings. To mollify him, President Obama dispatched both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and, a few days later, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon to Riyadh. U.S. support for the Saudi monarchy is so unceasing it can make U.S. support for other allies, even Israel, seem conditional.

So it’s with the tacit support of the U.S. that the regime is intensifying its crackdown on dissent. The two recent slayings disrupted months of relative calm and brought to at least 20 the number of people shot by the police since the protests began.

Shiite activists aren’t the only victims of government persecution. In March, the government arrested a group of Wahabi women protesting the imprisonment of their husbands, prompting an unusual, unified outcry from Shiite and Sunni fundamentalists, as well as liberals. The regime is also going after the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, one of the country’s few human rights groups. In March, a court sentenced co-founders Abdullah al-Hamid and Mohammed al-Qahtani to 11 and 10 years in prison, respectively. Another member, Mohammed al-Bajadi, is in prison. In a Youtube video posted in June, his mother said she hadn’t heard from him in nine months.

Under questioning from reporters, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland expressed “concern” about the al-Hamid and al-Qahtani sentences. The U.S. Commission on International Freedom also put out a statement. But there has been little else beyond that even as the Saudi government pushes its crackdown on people for speaking out online.

This week, a court sentenced the founder of the Free Saudi Liberal website to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. Twitter, which has more users per capita in Saudi Arabia than in any other country, is a popular platform for dissent. As part of a coordinated rhetorical attack on social media, the head of the religious police said that anyone who uses these sites has “lost this world and his afterlife.”

The anti-government activism, though striking for Saudi Arabia, at this point poses no threat to the regime, which has proven itself adept at neutralizing opposition. U.S. government and corporations are betting that the House of Saud will endure.

At a recent energy conference, Ryan Crocker, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, had reassuring words for attendees. “If Saudi Arabia were to become unhinged,” he said, “the consequences are almost impossible to imagine—politically, economically, at every level. But I don’t see it happening.”

This might not be a wise bet. While the regime won’t fall any time soon, it probably won’t be able to preside for many years over a population that’s increasingly young, wired, and unemployed. And if there’s one thing we should’ve learned from ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, it’s that the stability created by repression is illusory.

The Saudi monarchy’s harsh crackdown on dissent

 

[al-Hasani]

What a joke. KSA is one of the most stable countries in the world. A few deaths in the Eastern Province during 2.5 years of protests mainly limited to one area (Qatif) is not going to change that.

Besides you are just a frustrated Shia.

Lastly you seem to have a problem with the House of Saud rather than Arabs. Let me remind you of a historical fact. Rulers come and go and those who stay the longest time are those best equipped to rule or those that know how to please their citizens the most.

Then you will mention a long list of tyrants but they only ruled for a few years while the House of Saud have ruled areas of KSA for nearly 300 years.

I rather prefer to live in a highly developed country, G20 major economies member state, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, a country whose citizens have a GDP per capita as high as the average citizen in the EU and more rapidly growing etc. than living in most other places in the Muslim world. Or Bangladesh for that matter.

Unfortunately for you only Iran is ruled by Shia Mullah's as a theocracy and no other Muslim state (or other country in the world for that matter) so you better pack your bags and take the first plane to Iran, LOL.

I doubt that Muslims or Arabs care about your likes anyway.

 

[idune]

The Saudi monarchy’s harsh crackdown on dissent

The Saudi monarchy’s harsh crackdown on dissent

vs

Iranian President sit next to a retired teacher and listens to grievances with smile.

Let people judge Saudi rulers and their chest thumping supporters.

 

[al-Hasani]

vs

Iranian President sit next to a retired teacher and listens to grievances with smile.

Let people judge Saudi rulers and their chest thumping supporters.

Yes, we saw the Pagan Mullah's that you worship in action back in 2009 when they faked the "elections" as usual after they chose the candidates that could even run for "president".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlehNLfk90c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–10_Iranian_election_protests

You can't even mention anything similar in KSA history because there have not been any such incidents.

 

[ELTurco]

All that work was Berber and persian work arabs and Turks barbarians cultural thieves
The Abbasid library that build by harun al rashid the first books were persian and Assyrian books
The arabs translated the Greek books by using Syriac aramean translators the arabs only translated and stole the civilizations of others.
The Fatimid empire was founded by persians and Berbers Abu Abdullah al shiee was persian with the help of Berbers established the Fatimid

Evil Turks.