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QuoteSaudi Arabia urged by EU lawmakers to free blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for ‘insulting Islam’ amid criticism of its airstrikes in Yemen.

Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger and activist sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, has won the EU’s Sakharov prize for human rights.

The announcement was greeted on Thursday with a standing ovation at the European parliament in Strasbourg, France, but will be seen by Saudi Arabia as another diplomatic slight at a time when its domestic and international policies are coming under growing criticism.

Martin Schulz, the European parliament president, said: “I urge the king of Saudi Arabia to free him [Badawi], so he can accept the prize.”

Named after the Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, the award was created in 1988 to honour people and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. Badawi was one of three nominees this year, along with the Venezuelan opposition movement Mesa de la Unidad Democrática and theassassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

A look at the writings of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi â€" sentenced to 1,000 lashes

“The European parliament has sent today a strong political and humanitarian message to Saudi Arabian authorities,” said Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Liberal bloc. “We urge His Majesty King Salman to release Raif Badawi from prison and in any case to end the barbaric punishment of flogging.”

Badawi was arrested in 2012 on a charge of insulting Islam and indicted on several charges including apostasy. He was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in 2013, and then re-sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison plus a fine in 2014. The sentence was upheld by the supreme court in June.

He received the first 50 lashes before hundreds of spectators in Jeddah in January, but subsequent sets have been postponed in the face of international condemnation and Badawi’s poor health. In March, he said it was “miraculous” that he had survived his first 50 lashes.

“All this cruel suffering happened to me only because I expressed my opinion,” he said.

Saudi blogger’s wife: I feel destroyed but I will not sit in a corner and cry

Ensaf Haidar, Badawi’s wife, said this week she had been told the flogging would resume soon. She and their three children fled to Canada after receiving death threats.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/raif-badawi-sakharov-human-rights-prize-saudi-blogger

Oh stop picking on them muslims. Its just a whuppin after all, why shucks, its hardly nothing at all. Most muslims are against this but don't speak up cause its just a little whuppin....that's all.

Quote from: aitm on October 29, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
Oh stop picking on them muslims. Its just a whuppin after all, why shucks, its hardly nothing at all. Most muslims are against this but don't speak up cause its just a little whuppin....that's all.

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Oh, come on josephpalazzo, there are trillions of moderate, peaceful Muslims who don't do whuppin at all.
Why don't you mention them?

And now, some nuggets of wisdom from the Man himself.  We all should be learning from Him.

Quote#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”
#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world â€" including in my own country.”
#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
#6 “Islam has always been part of America”
#7 “We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
#8 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
#10 “I made clear that America is not â€" and never will be â€" at war with Islam.”
#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism â€" it is an important part of promoting peace.”
#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”…
#13 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
#14 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
#15 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants â€" farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers*  and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”

What is he smoking?

* That would be Mohammed Atta and his innovators.

Quote from: pr126 on October 30, 2015, 12:36:27 AM


And now, some nuggets of wisdom from the Man himself.  We all should be learning from Him.


What is he smoking?

Obama is one of those who on the left see Muslims as an oppressed group, he himself being from a minority. On domestic policies, I like what he did. However, his temperament does not do him well on the international scene, where there are few rules- except the law of the jungle, and a leader must be ruthless. He made some bad mistakes in Cairo, with Israel, in Libya and Syria. He is perceived as a weak leader, and that has allowed Putin to take a greater place at center stage. China is developing a strategy to challenge the US in South Sea China, even Iran will be sending warships in international waters near the US borders. The US has lost grounds on many fronts. The next leader will have to show his or her strength foreign in policies for the US to regain some lost luster.

Rule of the Jungle?  So I guess you support General MacArthur against President Truman then?  Fortunately I don't want to be a world leader ... then I would have to go around like Munch's favorite pictures flexing my biceps and turning on all the gay boys (the presumption is what is between my legs is just as big).

So you talk like Dick Cheney, but you aren't R-wing?  Really?