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The Post In Which Saudi Arabia And I Agree On Something
Written By : John Hawkins

It seems that the Saudis are shocking the world again by being brutal to criminals:

A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The convict was arrested earlier this year after a seven-year old boy helped police in their investigation. The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old, Okaz newspaper said.

International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. So far this year about 40 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia.

I’m not very fond of Saudi Arabia, their culture, the way they treat women, or the death cult version of Islam so many of the people there tend to live under.

That being said, my first thought after reading this story was that I wish we could send Roman Polanski there to be tried for rape.

My second thought was that I wish we could behead child rapists here, too. They certainly deserve it.

As a society, we can get so caught up in the idea of being “civilized” that we forget that barbarous behavior sometimes merits a barbarous response.

There are a lot of things Saudi Arabia is wrong about, but the way they’re treating a serial child rapist isn’t one of them in my book.

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  • Realpolitik

    And a post I can agree with John about. The bed is getting full of odd fellows.

  • tblrk2006

    Yup…nothin wrong with this IMO.

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

    I agree that barbarous acts merit barbarous punishments. In this context, death isn't meant to be non-offensive or civilised. One thing you didn't mention, John, is that the executions are carried out publicly and the crucifixion they mention is solely done to display the beheaded body in public. That extracts maximum deterrent effect from the execution, which is a good thing. If a society has decided to deprive someone of their life, it may as well serve a larger purpose than just getting rid of that person.

    Now, if the Saudis could only do something about FMG…

  • aharris

    The biggest problem with shipping Polanski to Saudi Arabia is that he raped a young girl. In Saudi Arabia, that would make her testimony half as good as his. In fact, the one executed might very well be the young girl … for adultery.

    You noticed that the accuser was a boy, right?

    Otherwise, I have no problems with the idea of executing child rapists.

  • NorthernCanuck

    While I understand the sentiments, I think it better to take the person out and quietly and quickly to do away with them as you would a mad dog. Public spectacles fire up blood lust more than they prevent pathologies in my opinion.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Public spectacles fire up blood lust more than they prevent pathologies in my opinion.

    Maybe so, but pathologies aren't going to be prevented by quiet, private executions either. If a maniac isn't deterred by seeing a public execution, he's certainly not going to be deterred by an execution he doesn't even hear about.

  • BIG

    Actually, what Polanski did was not a crime in Saudi Arabia. THe girl was 13 at the time and Big Mo himself deflowered a 9 year old.

    But let's talk about public executions. I hate the way we execute people in America. They spend about 25 years on death row getting medical coverage. I remember a story about a California death row inmate that got a kidney transplant. The state justified it because the transplant was cheaper than the ongoing dialasis (sic?). And now all we do is jab a needle into their arm and make them go to sleep. They even swab the injection site with alcohol so the inmate doesn't get an infection from the stick. This type of execution does absolutely nothing to deter crime.

    I think we need to go back to swift public executions. Hangings in the town square. Let Utah use their firing squads. Plug old sparky back in and send a mass murderer sizzlin'. And we can do this on pay per view TV. Maybe even use a chopping block? But what we are currently doing is wrong. The scum of our society are spending decades in jail awaiting the fate they deserve. I know that some are found innocent later, but with todays DNA matching, the mistakes are going to be very rare. Please tell me for what reason Charlie Manson keeps coming up for parole? Why is he still alive when Sharon Tate has been gone for 40 years?

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