{"id":48238,"date":"2014-10-06T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=48238"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:40","slug":"hypocrisy-saudi-arabia-beheads-26-people-in-1-month-some-for-sorcery-us-fox-have-nothing-to-say-about-it-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/10\/hypocrisy-saudi-arabia-beheads-26-people-in-1-month-some-for-sorcery-us-fox-have-nothing-to-say-about-it-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy: Saudi Arabia Beheads 26 People in 1 Month, Some for \u2018Sorcery’ – The West Has Nothing to Say about It (Images)"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING:<\/em><\/strong> This article contains graphic images. If you do not wish to see them, do not scroll down.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two oppressive, authoritarian Muslim regimes acting under the auspices of Sharia Law publicly behead scores of non-violent people,\u00a0primarily to instill fear in those who might resist said regime\u2019s self-asserted authority over\u00a0the region.<\/p>\n

People whose heads are cut off are disproportionately foreign nationals, or locals with religious or ideological differences. One of them is ISIS, the other is the government of Saudi Arabia. Which one are we bombing again?<\/p>\n

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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia. Photo: SaudiArabian.TV.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2012 and 2013, Saudi Arabia cut\u00a0the heads off of 79 people for various \u201ccrimes\u201d throughout the nation, and it looks like they\u2019re trying to hit the same target this year. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a slowdown earlier in the year, so Saudi Arabia is doing its best to catch up and maintain its previous record.<\/p>\n

But Saudi Arabia\u2019s beheadings aren\u2019t\u00a0just\u00a0<\/em>about keeping a title. As London researcher Sevag Kechichian told Al Jazeera<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons behind the surge in executions could be that the Saudi Arabian authorities want to send a strong message that the regime is stable, and does not tolerate breaches of the law in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising and calls for reform in Saudi Arabia including by the country\u2019s Shia Muslim community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabian officials display the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals. Photo: The Commentator.<\/p><\/div>\n

While some would say that the killings aren\u2019t politically motivated (at least in the sense that protesters aren\u2019t being arrested en masse in the Eastern Provinces and beheaded), the King certainly looks to be sending a message since the Qatif protests began in 2011.<\/p>\n

Prior to 2011, Saudi Arabia averaged about 27 executions a year; when the King announced a \u201ccrackdown\u201d of law enforcement, that number multiplied by three times over almost immediately. And there the figure has stayed. A few examples:<\/p>\n