Trick wrote:Ahh, they’re probably all Shriners, all the leaders of the western world. Secretly paying homage to the cube. That’s why the Saudis are left to do as they want.
Can you read this in China?
The fate of Khashoggi has at least provoked global outrage, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. We are told he was a liberal, Saudi progressive voice fighting for freedom and democracy, and a martyr who paid the ultimate price for telling the truth to power.
This is not just wrong, but distracts us from understanding what the incident tells us about the internal power dynamics of a kingdom going through an unprecedented period of upheaval. It is also the story of how one man got entangled in a Saudi ruling family that operates like the Mafia. Once you join, it’s for life, and if you try to leave, you become disposable.
In truth, Khashoggi never had much time for western-style pluralistic democracy. In the 1970s he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, which exists to rid the Islamic world of western influence.
He was a political Islamist until the end, recently praising the Muslim Brotherhood in the Washington Post. He championed the ‘moderate’ Islamist opposition in Syria, whose crimes against humanity are a matter of record.
Khashoggi frequently sugarcoated his Islamist beliefs with constant references to freedom and democracy. But he never hid that he was in favour of a Muslim Brotherhood arc throughout the Middle East. His recurring plea to bin Salman in his columns was to embrace not western-style democracy, but the rise of political Islam which the Arab Spring had inadvertently given rise to. For Khashoggi, secularism was the enemy.
https://spectator.us/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi/keep in mind he was not a US citizen, nor a green card holder,
although he was in the US as a visa holder.
"Jamal Khashoggi, one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent journalists"
Guess he should known better....must have spent to much time in the US.
However, if the question is why we should punish the Saudis for the murder, then one answer would be as a deterrent to them doing it again. If another journalist walks into a Saudi embassy and gets chopped up, what's to stop the deal then? Pat Robertson (the evangelical leader) says that it wouldn't make sense to drop the deal for "one" man. What if that man were an important U.S. politician?
Funny right, completely ignores he was a Saudi citizen, subject to their laws.
If he happened to be a US politician it could still happen but not likely nor be directly
state sponsored if it was.
Lets see, is he a Saudi citizen first or a journalists first, does being a journalist save one from
things that some find offensive and act on, or does being a Saudi citizen subject one to their laws and customs.
They seem to have a thing for "Saudi Arabia criticised for 48
beheadings in four months of 2018"
mmm dont know about journalists but being a cartoonist
can be life threatening ask Charlie Hebdo,,oops you cant he was killed...