Boy, it takes a cartoonist -- animator Mark Fiore -- to mention the ugly truth that, to fight the extreme sectarian beheading Islamic State, the U.S. has formed a coalition and a system for training Syrian rebels around a majorly extreme sectarian beheading state: Saudi Arabia. Check Fiores latest little animation out today. Heres his explanation to go with it. Tom Now that the United States is forming another military coalition to combat evil in the Middle East, maybe we should pause to take a closer look at the members of this coalition. Sure, ISIS is terrible and does awful things like behead people, but they’ve got nothing on Saudi Arabia, which beheads people as a matter of policy. Between August 4th and 22nd, Saudi Arabia executed 22 people, bringing the yearly total to 34. (They executed 79 people in 2013 and killed 2000 people between 1985 and 2013.) They recently killed four members of the same family for drug trafficking. I’m not saying every one of our allies in the fight against ISIS has to be perfect, but it does seem a bit hypocritical when one of our most important allies in the Middle East has such a thing for beheading— just something to keep in mind when the next terrible ISIS beheading video is released. Nobody seems to get worked up when prisoners who have been tortured and condemned by a religious court are beheaded in a public square, as long as it happens in Saudi Arabia. Dogboy is a little confused by this whole thing, and Mr. Dan is trying desperately to make the world black and white. truthdig/cartoon/item/the_beheading_coalition_20140918
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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