You won’t hear much about this in the American mainstream media. From Patrick Knox and Mark Hodge at thesun.co.uk: A YOUNG lad was tortured with electricity and beheaded in Saudi Arabia because he sent WhatsApp messages about a protest aged 16. Abdulkarim al-Hawaj, 21, was a schoolboy when he was detained and accused of being […]
You won’t have heard much in NZ’s pro-government MSM about the ISIS-style execution of 37 dissidents either — it doesn’t suit the Jacinda government. —Eds
Saudi Arabia and the emirates are followers of Wahhabism, which is anathema to mainline Shi’a and Sunni. It is notable that these states that expend vast sums to promote Wahhabism throughout the world are the USA’s allies in the region. Those states that the USA targets, Syria and Iran, are opponents of Wahhabi terrorism. Wahhabism is the religion of ISL, Taliban al-Qaeda, but the influential neocon Islamophobe network does not make a distinction; it’s all just ‘Islam’. Blaming Islam for Wahhabism is like blaming a Philippines Catholic community for the IRA.
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