Deadly Consequences

The poet Ashraf Fayadh has been sentenced to death for renouncing his religion. Islam was his faith and apparently one man's dissent is a threat to God. I suppose this is to be expected from a poor third world country.

Oh that's right, it's not a third world country, it's our old ally Saudi Arabia. Our good friends who love to have us fight wars for them. Our good friends who bred the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 including their leader the filthy rich Bin Laden. Our good friend we refuse to call out on their bullshit. Must be all that delicious oil. We need complete energy independence if for no other reason than to tell the Saudis to lick our crack.

Fayadh is a Palestinian living in Saudi Arabia. The crime he was charged with is denouncing his religion but he is also considered a troublemaker by the Saudi government. This is the perfect opportunity to get rid of a radical who dares to express sentiments of free thought. Sharia Law rules Saudi Arabia, through the Royal Family of course, sort of a dark ages monatheocracy, but with Rolls Royces.

Wahhabism, and that's not the hot green stuff at sushi bars, is the sect of Sunni Islam that is nurtured and taught in Saudi Arabia. It is violent and fuels terrorist motivation but we remain silent for the most part. What's about to happen to this poet is not rare. Executions and dismemberment are common in Saudi Arabia but we don't like to interfere in another countries internal affairs. We don't believe in sanctioning nations that violate human rights. We don't like to ostracize countries that foment terrorist ideology. We don't like to take action against any country that has a lot of oil and owns a lot of banks.

There really isn't a grand point to this post except to highlight the absurdity of murdering in the name of the God you claim to believe in and pretending it's what he wants done in his name. Executing a man for renouncing his religion is murder no matter how you slice the cheese.