Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment

Religious extremism is a mental illness and has no place in government.

>Saudi Arabia is among the world's most prolific executioners. According to Amnesty, at least 175 people had been executed in the kingdom this year as of 5 October, most of them foreign nationals, including at least 94 people from more than 20 countries. It has no written penal code, leaving many offences and punishments to judges' interpretation of Sharia, and broad provisions in its counter-terrorism and cybercrime laws have been used to impose long sentences for social media posts.

This should be widely publicized. No foreigner is safe.

This is of course wrong, no matter what the comment was, but it is strange that the article does not say what the comment was.

Governments should disallow their citizens from directly flying to dangerous countries like Saudi Arabia. Governments should also have mandatory training for those who travel to dangerous countries.

Let's not forget that the terrorists of 9/11 were Saudi. This is the real face of Islam; it is the antithesis of tolerance.

Intolerant Saudi Arabia and its inhuman treatment of non-muslims. Why the world puts up with it is beyond me.

The problem was a trivial one; there was a dog in a non-muslim religious procession which was wantonly kicked by a muslim man. As any normal empathetic human would, this person wrote a facebook post condemning it in somewhat strong terms which may have had some religious flavour which he later deleted and apologized for.

The above is what is being tried under blasphemous laws by the Saudis. Where is the outrage from the international media, human rights organizations and the larger world?

We are living in the 21st century, for goodness' sake!

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