We are not happy with that. We are ashamed of that. But [under] the jury system, you have to follow the laws, and I cannot tell a judge [to] do that and ignore the law, because… that’s against the rule of law," he said.
Listen: I don’t make the rules, I just think them up and write them down.
Just following orders…
“good soldiers follow orders…”
They sentenced death penalty to the guy the schoolgirl supported just because he criticized corruption and human rights violations over tweets.
Before anyone comes in with “Religion of Peace” statements: Conservative Christians would do the same if they were in charge. Or in fact any hardliner + religion combo.
The Authoritarin Aspect is more the problem, then religion. But yes Religion is very susceptible to this.
Does anyone else feel like most other countries have kind of tilted towards the “American right” in the last few decades? Even France is not safe with its “if you don’t like it you can leave.” The issue is world wide and is bigger than religion.
It’s like conservativism is a pandemic.
France has flirted with far right nationalism for at least 25 years, fyi
Thank you for the better terminology. However, it doesn’t make me feel any better to know how long this has been going on.
Edit: Trying to be more clear.
Yeah, in Spain the main rightwing party is shifting more and more towards Trumpism, while the ultrarightwing party, Vox, has always been a bad copy of Trumpism.
So fuck all religions.
Science and statistics should be the only resource we refer to when creating legislation. Perfect.
Now if only we could get the rest of the fucking world on board and actually have a separation of churches and states.
Conservative Christians would do the same if they were in charge.
Good thing this is in no danger of happening!
Ban religion
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Yeah Saudi Arabia is such a wonderful bastion of modern progress values.
I’m sure Musk will ensure this never happens again. He’s a free speech warrior. /s
Cowards will do what cowards will do.
USA ally, former president’s men using Nuremberg defense.
Saudi Arabia is so over the top with these laws.
This is why they became the second largest investor in Twitter
Religion of love!
lol look how happy that dude looks in the thumbnail. wish I had an entire nation to serve my whims… 😠
He’s one smug mother fucker.
Just a reminder that in SA’s point of view, this is “not tolerating the intolerant.”
I just remember the famous Spiderman quotes “With great power comes great responsibilities” .
Government of Saudi Arabia should condemned for jailing many ulemas along with program to liberalization and secularization of Saudi society.
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