Source: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/2/1465549/-The-difference-between-the-Saudis-and-ISIS
By: GJOHNSIT
Saturday Jan 02. 2016
Can you tell the difference?
The Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia celebrated the New Year by executing 47 people, mostly by beheadings.
Saudi officials said the mass execution, one of the
largest in the kingdom in decades, was aimed at deterring those committed to
violence against the state. But analysts said that the grouping of the cleric,
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, with hardened militants was a message to dissidents, and
that it could exacerbate sectarian tensions across the Middle East. The
executions were the first of 2016 and followed a year in which at least 157
people were put to death, the conservative Muslim kingdom’s highest yearly
total in two decades.
Most
of the attention is focused on the execution of a shiite
cleric. This mass execution includes a teenager who was beheaded and then publicly
crucified for the crime of peacefully demonstrating against the royal family.
This mass execution has stirred up the meme that
there is no real difference between Saudi Arabia and ISIS, but that is false. I
would like to help clear up that confusion.
OK, sure. ISIS and KSA have very similar laws, but
it’s important to look beyond that.
And sure, lots of ISIS fighters come from KSA, not to
mention the 9/11 attackers. And sure, KSA directly supports ISIS, but you need
to look past that. So what’s the difference between ISIS and KSA? The KSA has
more oil, and thus is our ally. I’m glad I could clear that up for you.
