Saudi threatens to sue those who compare them to DAESH
Edit: For those clarification to some others, I am a Muslim, and will have been a Muslim for 5 years in January. However, I also know the history of my faith, and how it has been poisoned by the Saudi school of thought.
Saudi is apparently threatening to SLAPP people who say they resemble DAESH.
I think this will qualify as a SLAPP attempt, given the definition, which is as follows.
A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.
The typical SLAPP plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff’s goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. In some cases, repeated frivolous litigation against a defendant may raise the cost of directors and officers liability insurance for that party, interfering with an organization’s ability to operate. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate. A SLAPP is often preceded by a legal threat.
I am going to see just how zealous they really are, because, when it comes down to it, they are like DAESH. Their most recent rise to power greatly resembles that of DAESH, even down to the initiating circumstances. With Saudi, it was the death of the Ottoman Empire, and DAESH really was able to get it start in the vacuum left by Saddam after he was toppled, combined with discriminatory policies by al-Maliki’s Government.
In addition, their rise led to a great number of atrocities. While everyone knows what DAESH has done, what is far less well known are the similar atrocities committed by the Saudis as they consolidated power. The best example of this is the Ta’if massacre, where 300-400 civilians were slaughtered by the forces of Abdulaziz ibn Saud, whose children have kept ruling Saudi to the current day. In addition, the Saudis ethnically cleansed Jews from the areas around Najran, when they seized that area from Yemen.
With increased persecution, the Jews of Najran made plans to evacuate. The local governor at the time, Amir Turki ben Mahdi, allowed the 600 Najrani Jews a single day on which to either evacuate or never leave again. Saudi soldiers accompanied them to the Yemeni border. These Jews arrived in Saada, and some 200 continued south to Aden between September and October 1949. The Saudi King Abdulaziz demanded their return, but the Yemeni king, Ahmad bin Yahya refused, because these refugees were Yemenite Jews. After settling in the Hashid Camp (also called Mahane Geula) they were airlifted to Israel as part of the larger Operation Magic Carpet.
On to the current day however, Saudi is essentially like DAESH in terms of “justice” They execute somewhere between 60-80 people a year by beheading, with about half of those being from outside Saudi, many of these people being lowly paid near-slaves from various places in South and South East Asia. And that doesn’t even touch on the fact that they still do crucifixion in the country, just like DAESH does.
Essentially, there is a very simple goal here for me. First, to see if they will actually do it, and second, if they do, to create a circus in which I can inform Americans into how much Saudi poisons the Islamic World, and how they try to intimidate critics of their sick, twisted form of Islam into silence, and show what Islam really is.
I may do a page later, with more details and atrocities listed.
Edit: For those clarification to some others, I am a Muslim, and will have been a Muslim for 5 years in January. However, I also know the history of my faith, and how it has been poisoned by the Saudi school of thought.