Bloodthirsty Liberal

Why must the good die young?

A top Saudi hacker who targeted Israel and Jews has died at age 28, Saudi media reported Sunday. The man, who was not named, died of an asthma attack brought on by summer sandstorms.

The hacker, who called himself “Cyber Terrorist,” was known for hacking well-protected sites including Microsoft. He targeted Jewish and Israeli sites in particular, as well as a site belonging to Danish cartoonists who drew cartoons of Mohammed.

A fellow Saudi hacker calling himself “hell cyber” told the media that “Cyber Terrorist” had put “defending Islam and the Prophet” as his top priority.

“One company had shown interest in working with him for a large sum of money, but he rejected the offer because it came from a Jewish company,” he related.

Maybe instead of making the defense of Islam and the Prophet as his top priority, an inhaler would have been a better idea.

And he should have taken the job with the “Jewish company”. Who do you think created the sandstorm? Hmm, Cyber Terrorist?

Hey Aggie! I wonder if our “Saudi Atheist” reader is aware of this?

A Saudi court sentenced a woman to 50 lashes for swearing at her friend, an Arabic newspaper reported on Monday.

Our atheist friend made Saudi Arabia sound like a quaintly conservative state like Mississippi or Arkansas. But they don’t lash women or practice segregation there (anymore).

Somebody wake up the ICC! Send in NATO troops! The Human Rights Council needs to hold an emergency session!

Oh, the humanity!

Saudi Arabia is building a long wall along its borders with Yemen to prevent the trembles of the Yemeni revolution from spreading deep into the Arab peninsula.

According to sources close to the al-Saud dynasty, Riyadh is building the wall to prevent a spread of the Yemenis’ revolutionary feelings to Saudi Arabia, specially considering the growing Shiite protests in the Eastern parts of the country.

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Meantime, Yemenis say that Saudi Arabia should return the three provinces that it occupied and annexed to its territories long ago. The Saudi-backed regime of former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh never protested at Riyadh for occupying and annexing the three provinces, but the Al-Saud dynasty feels the fear that post-Saleh Yemen might start reclaiming this vast land.

I can feel the BDS movement (Boycott Dumb Saudis) gathering now. End the daily humiliation of the Yemeni people! One Yemen, from… the desert to the desert!

And this isn’t the Saudi’s first wall either! From 2006.

No, you won’t be able to see it from space, but Saudi Arabia, unnerved by the violence next door in Iraq, plans to spend up to $7 billion on a partly virtual fence along its 500-mile border with Iraq. The ultramodern barrier will combine fencing, electronic sensors and sand berms. Saudi and U.S. sources tell TIME the kingdom is seeking bids from contractors, including U.S. defense giant Raytheon.

Wait, what?

There are even more?

Why has no one told us of this abomination before?

It’s possible that they regret it now.

Israeli hackers said they brought down the official websites of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency and Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange on Tuesday in retaliation for a denial of service attack on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange the previous day.

Both websites appeared to be offline following the announcement by the hackers.

An Israeli hacker told The Jerusalem Post that members of the Internet group Israel Defenders were behind the attack.

They said in a forum message that they acted “because lame hackers from Saudi Arabia decided to launch an attack against Israeli sites,” noting the denial of service attacks against TASE and El Al, as well as three Israeli banks on Monday. They signed their message with the name “IDF Team.” The hackers warned “this is only the beginning,” saying “there may be disruption to the [Saudi] government’s stock exchange site” as well.

“If the lame attacks from Saudi Arabia will continue, we will move to the next level, which will disable these sites longer term,” they said, adding that the damage could last for weeks or even months.

If I had the money to bet, I’d bet on the Israeli team. I’m pretty sure that they could really make life miserable in Saudi Arabia if they wanted to.

- Aggie

There is a video at CNN, and an article here.

DUBAI – Rights group Amnesty International has described as “deeply shocking” Saudi Arabia’s beheading of a woman convicted on charges of “sorcery and witchcraft”, saying it underlined the urgent need to end executions in the kingdom.

Saudi national Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was executed on Monday in the northern province of al-Jawf after being tried and convicted for practicing sorcery, the interior ministry said, without giving details of the charges.

“The citizen… practiced acts of witchcraft and sorcery,” Saudi newspaper al-Watan cited the interior ministry as saying. “The death sentence was carried out on the accused yesterday (Monday) in the Qurayyat district in al-Jawf region”.

Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, has no written criminal code, which is instead based on an uncodified form of Islamic sharia law as interpreted by the country’s judges.

“While we don’t know the details of the acts which the authorities accused Amina of committing, the charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion,” Philip Luther, interim director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program, said in a statement.

The related articles have to do with an Australian national who was accused of blasphemy while making the Haj, and who is serving one year in prison and will experience 500 lashes. And there has apparently been another huge fire in a girl’s school in Saudi Arabia. In 2002, they wouldn’t let the girls out with their heads uncovered.

So anyway, why is it that we support these guys, whether the Democrats or the Republicans are in power? How is this useful for the United States?

- Aggie

Arab nations want to know:

Newly acquired intelligence reports indicate several Arab countries in the Middle East are lobbying the US to strike Iran this year, Israel’s Channel 10 reported.

According to the report, which is said to be making its rounds in Britain’s political circles, Saudi Arabia wants the Obama administration to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities before the final withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

US president has vowed to close the door on American military involvement in Iraq by year’s end, but Riyadh is reportedly afraid Iran will use the American exit to take over the country.

Because Iran will take over Iraq after we leave. They’ve as much as said they would.

Security experts say Baghdad’s security forces are unprepared to confront the rival insurgencies that hold Iraq in their grip – and that Obama’s dogged drive to fulfill his campaign promise may have disastrous consequences both for the region and US interests.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies have been locked in a strategic battle with Iran for hegemony over the Persian Gulf – and have accused Tehran of seeking to destabilize the region through its ‘Shiite Diaspora.’

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Despite this, Arab powers have been reticent to publicly call for an Iran strike – which has been a high profile part of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic agenda.

Instead, observers say, they have sought to work behind the scenes to avoid being seen as working in concert with Israel.

I’m sure the feeling is mutual.

But whatever you may say about Saudi Arabia—and there’s plenty—they know who and what threatens them. We noted ten days ago that Secretary of State Clinton confessed that our actions toward Libya were motivated by a “secure supply of energy”—that it was indeed a time-limited, scope-limited kinetic military action for oil.

But Libya is a puddle next to Saudi Arabia. Even under this lily-livered, weak-kneed president, I can’t imagine our letting Iran achieve nuclear weapons. But then, there’s a lot about the guy I never would have imagined.

He’s queer,
He’s not here,
Get used to it:

The United States government denied political asylum to Ali Ahmad Asseri, the former first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, last week to avoid disrupting US-Saudi relations, according to a Saudi-American blogger and journalist based in Brazil.

Asseri argued that if he returned to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia he would face execution because the country’s radically fundamental form of Islam mandates the death penalty for same-sex relations.

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In an e-mail response to the Post on Saturday, Abou-Alsamh, the Saudi-American blogger whose personal website “Rasheed’s World” first broke the story about the denial of the asylum application, wrote, “As far as I know the US government has not yet officially commented on Asseri’s denial of asylum, but from comments that I have read after I wrote my post, it seems that political asylum cases are often denied in first instance and then approved later when the applicant appeals.”

He added: “I do think the US government is afraid of unnecessarily annoying the Saudis, especially now with all of the turmoil that the Arab world is going through because of the Arab Spring revolts.”

Seriously? We’re going to let the Saudis cut off his head(s) so as not to “unnecessarily annoy” them? All annoyance of Saudis is necessary.

But wait, there’s more:

“His initial interview with Homeland Security was very positive, but then they came back and grilled him for two days after they found out that he had worked in the public prosecutor’s office in Saudi Arabia,” Alsamh continued.

“He had been an inspector to make sure that judicial punishments, such as lashings, were carried out within the law – not more, not less. They then accused him of participating in a form of torture,” Ahmed said on Abou- Alamh’s website.

Ahmed said that Asseri intends to appeal the denial of his application and the process could meander its way through the judicial process over the next few years.

Last year, the US news organization MSNBC first reported on Asseri’s decision to remain in the United States. According to an article from the MSNBC national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff: “Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has informed US Department of Homeland Security officials that Saudi officials have refused to renew his diplomatic passport and effectively terminated his job after discovering he was gay and was close friends with a Jewish woman.”

Talk about burying the lead! Which is worse—that’s she’s Jewish or that she’s a she? After they behead him, they’ll have to sew it back on and behead him all over again.

What about it, President Obama? Are you going to annoy the Saudis (who don’t vote) or the gay community and their Jewish f*g hag friends (who do)?

Well, you know what I mean:

Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud has died, Saudi TV says.

The crown prince was King Abdullah’s half-brother and first in line to the Saudi throne. He was also minister of defence and aviation.

He was in his eighties and was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2004. He is thought to have died at a New York hospital.

Prince Sultan had been on a visit to the US for medical tests, and he had an operation in New York in July.

The royal court confirmed the death in a statement carried by SPA, the state news agency:

“With deep sorrow and sadness the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz mourns the death of his brother and his Crown Prince Sultan… who died at dawn this morning Saturday outside the kingdom following an illness.”

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to the crown prince, saying Washington’s ties with Saudi Arabia were “strong and enduring”.

I hope she was behind the wheel of a car when she said it.

I just want to know who gets his stash of Penthouse magazines and his liquor cabinet. One of his 78 half-brothers, no doubt.

In 2009, after Prince Sultan fell ill, King Abdullah named Nayef as his second deputy prime minister, traditionally the post of the second in line to the throne.

However, the king – who is 87- has also established a succession council, made up of his brothers and nephews.

It is expected to meet for the first time to determine who will be named as the next in line to the Saudi throne.

Kind of like how they choose the Pope, I guess.

Not that you can tell:

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said on Sunday women in the conservative Islamic kingdom will have the right to join the advisory Shura Council as full members and participate in future municipal elections, meeting a key goal of liberal activists.

“Because we refuse to marginalize women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama (clerics) and others… to involve women in the Shura Council as members, starting from the next term,” he said in a speech delivered to the Shura Council.

“Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote,” he added.

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Those changes will come after municipal elections this Thursday, for which women have been barred from voting or standing office.

Certain “unalienable rights” are delayable, I guess.

The financial blogs are reporting that French banks are in so much trouble that they are going, hat-in-hand, to the Middle East to beg for help.

Think that might have something to do with it?

- Aggie

Unbelievable—except, of course, it isn’t:

In an article titled “Liberalism – A Jewish Deception,” Saudi columnist Khaled Al-Ghanami justified Hitler’s views on the Jews as expressed in his book Mein Kampf, and claimed that the Jews today were exploiting economic liberalism as a means to topple the Arab states and control the world. The article was received positively by many readers, who defended Al-Ghanami’s claims and even asked him to expand on them.

“Regardless of our views on Adolf Hitler, his book Mein Kampf contains many stories and much philosophical commentary worth reading.

That’s just the first sentence, but you can imagine how it goes on.

But I would agree with one thing Mr. Al-Ghanami wrote: American Jews have been deceived by liberalism. The Left is no friend to the Jews.

Won’t see this among the bitches on the pitches of Saudi Arabia:

Following are excerpts from a TV program on women’s sports in Saudi Arabia, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on July 8, 2011.

Rima Abdallah: It was about six years ago. At first we would play in closed areas behind fences, so nobody would know. At some point, I realized that this must be developed, so I turned to the media to make the authorities see that there are women who have the right to represent the country one day, in a manner pleasing to Allah, in keeping with our traditions and the shari’a. We kept on playing this way. We paid all the expenses out of our own pockets. We did not have our own soccer fields, so we had to rent them. We looked only for secluded soccer fields, so that men would not go there.

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About a year ago, a women’s soccer tournament was held in Bahrain, and I’m sad to say that the only team that did not participate was the Saudi team.

Host: Among the Gulf countries?

Rima Abdallah: Among all the Arab countries. Kuwait, Oman, and some other Gulf states participated, as well as Arab countries.

Host: Except Saudi Arabia?

Rima Abdallah: Right. We asked to participate, but because we are not recognized by FIFA or the Saudi Soccer Association, our request was denied.

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The entire Saudi people must be made aware of the fact that Saudi women have been ranked as having the highest obesity rate due to immobility. In addition, 94% of Saudi women suffer from diabetes.

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I hope with all my heart that one day, I will participate [in a soccer tournament] and raise my country’s flag, in a manner pleasing to Allah. There are Arab women’s teams in which they all play with hijabs and long clothing, which fully covers the body, but does not affect their performance on the field.

They like to play hoops, too:

Host: What do you wear when you play?

Hadir Sadqa [Basketball player]: If it is a closed court, with only women present, we wear this.

Host: Can you show us… It has no sleeves…

Hadir Sadqa: True, but anyone who wants to wear

Host: What about the bottom part of the costume?

Hadir Sadqa: We wear shorts.

Host: Regular shorts, up to the mid-thigh, right?

Hadir Sadqa: No.

Host: That’s what you wear when you are with women only?

Hadir Sadqa: Yes.

Host: Shorts?

Hadir Sadqa: Down to the knees. The same goes for the Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal clubs.

Host: But only in the company of women.

Hadir Sadqa: But when we appear in the media or when the audience includes men, we wear long white clothes, and dress according to the shari’a, in addition to sports clothes

Host: You wear a hijab?

Hadir Sadqa: Yes.

Host: Like the black one you’re wearing?

Hadir Sadqa: A white one.

Host: What if during the game, your head-covering falls off?

Rima Abdallah: There are special head-coverings, like masks. Our Syrian sisters have head-coverings like masks. Nothing can budge them.

I’m not unsympathetic (up to a point): A Jewish girl wanted to wear a t-shirt under her uniform out of modesty, and she was nearly disqualified for it.

But this?

Heck, I’m old enough to remember when the college guys wore t-shirts under their unis because they thought it was cool.