Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saudis Beat 75 y.o. woman
In Saudi Arabia, where Americans spend roughly 53.2 billion dollars a year financing it’s government by buying petroleum and petroleum products, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, an elderly seventy-five year old woman, was lashed forty times because she had to unrelated men in her home. One of the men claimed that Sawadi had breast fed him as a child, which in would make him a son to her in Islam. The men said they were at the Sawadi’s house delivering bread. These men were arrested by The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. That name sounds scarier than the Patriot Act, CIA, and NSA combined. If Americans thought that the previously name institutions and policies impinged on their civil liberties they should look at what other countries have to deal with.
Americans help finance The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice almost every time we drive. There is no chance what-so-ever of a major American politician taking on the Saudi Government over this. However, I cannot fault them in this current situation. A gas shortage would be the last thing that our economy needs. However, things like this were happening when our economy was well and nothing was said. Our government will do anything to please the people in charge in Saudi Arabia. They had Bush walk around holding their hand. I hope that President Obama will not do that. I do not know if that would be the best thing to do political, but I know for sure they already aren’t fond of his alternative energy program.
The lashing of this seventy-five year old woman is a reason why I think that we need alternative fuels. I do not want for future generations to have to live under oppression. I do not think that is in the world interest to have people without hope or dreams. People should be able to decide who and what they have in their lives, it should not be up to the government. I think it is terrible that people only get outraged about things like this when it happens in their locality.
CNN LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/09/saudi.arabia.lashes/index.html
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