Saudi Arabia may stop beheading—not because of humanity—because not enough trained choppers

Welcome to the wonderful world of Islam; where public beheadings take place more than once a week; where they round up locals and force them to watch. Yes, these are the people who our dear liberal friends, our cultural relativists, believe are the same as us.

But now Saudis, wouldn’t you know it, are contemplating replacing beheading when required with firing squads because they haven’t got enough trained swordsmen to keep up with demand. Yes, it’s a supply and demand situation. Or perhaps something is not quite working with their apprenticeship schemes.

According to the Mail Online article below, the introduction of firing squads wouldn’t violate Islamic law—such compassion!

It really amazes me how ignorant liberals are to world realities; while in New Zealand they get upset over gays not being permitted to marry, over there in Saudi Arabia they are lucky to keep their heads on. And when I say ‘they’ I am mainly talking about immigrant workers from third-world countries; they consistently end up at Chop Chop Square on some trumped-up charge to cover for their employers’ crimes.

I worked in Saudi for one year a while back and it was common knowledge that maids, etc., often take the fall for Saudi crimes, and the following video of a young Sri Lankan maid—who was accused of killing a baby after being in Saudi Arabia for one week—is a recent case in point:

Sri Lankan maid beheading

Before going to Saudi, I had seen images and watched documentaries, etc., about the kingdom, but it really didn’t dawn on me how repressive the place is until I saw women hanging around in large groups outside western supermarkets peering through the slots in their burqas; it was as if they were trapped and were peering out at western freedom:

Before, reading the Mail Online article, take a look at these two videos—very disturbing indeed.

Interview with trained swordsman

A clear video of a beheading (not for the faint hearted)

Mail Online article:

Saudi Arabia may stop public beheadings... due to a shortage of swordsmen

• The Gulf kingdom beheaded 69 people in 2012, says Human Rights Watch
• Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking all punishable by death

Saudi Arabia is considering dropping public beheadings as a method of execution because of a shortage of government swordsmen in the oil-rich kingdom.

A joint Saudi committee composed of representatives of the ministries of interior, justice and health has instead proposed firing squads for capital sentences.

The committee argued that the measure, if adopted, would not violate Islamic law, allowing heads - or emirs - of the country's 13 local administrative regions to begin using the new method when needed.

The Daily Mirror in Sri Lanka reported that the committee said in a statement: ‘This solution seems practical, especially in light of shortages in official swordsmen or their belated arrival to execution yards in some incidents; the aim is to avoid interruption of the regularly-taken security arrangements.'

The ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom beheaded 76 people in 2012, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Human Rights Watch (HRW) put the number at 69.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of Sharia, or Islamic Law. So far this year, three people have been executed.

Death by beheading has always been a source of tension between Saudi Arabia and the international community.

There was international outcry, including from human rights groups, after a Sri Lankan maid, Rizana Nafeek, was beheaded in public by sword last month.

Executed: Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek was beheaded despite international appeals for her release

Miss Nafeek was sentenced to death aged 17 in 2007 after her Saudi employer accused her of strangling his four-month-old baby two years earlier after a dispute with the child's mother.

A government spokesman said Riyadh: ‘deplores the statements made... about the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death one week after she arrived in the kingdom.' Read more