Riyadh General Court

Today Monday October 20th 2008 Saudi authorities started the prosecution of 70 terrorists who have supported or performed terrorists acts in Saudi Arabia during the last few years. This has been an overdue prosecution as some of these men have been in prison for years with no official charges which has upset many human rights organizations. The Judaical authorities have assigned 10 judges to

look into these cases and the security around the court house has increased.

Commentary

This has been long overdue. The Saudi government has been using the excuse that investigations were not completed and that many of these terrorists had information that was helpful in cracking down their colleges. That is understandable but it only made other terrorists more dangerous. As for the last few years many who were arrested were freed for good behavior and for abandoning their terrorist believes as long as they didn’t help to kill or killed anyone. Compassion and help is not what terrorists need, what they need is an iron fist and the death penalty to know where they end up with such horrifying acts.

Twenty five men from a Saudi tribe starting celebrating and chanting in front of the Riyadh General Court after successfully separating a woman of their clan from a man unknown to them.

The man married his wife with her fathers approval with the opposition of the clan members who refused that a woman of their clan be married to someone from outside the clan. As result the clan members went to court to demand the annulment of the marriage as the man was not one of them. The husband stood still and announced that he will only agree to divorce his wife if her father asked him. Under extreme pressure from the clan members the father broke down and asked for the divorce as a result the couple was broken up. As soon as this happen shouting and screaming was heard all over the court house as the clans men celebrated and some even fell to the ground in prayer thanking god.

Commentary

Tribal traditions at its peak! So the only problem with the guy was that he wasn’t one of their clan so they destroy his marrage. Where in Islam does this come in? This is a major problem in Saudi Arabia where tribalism comes first and Islam second, many believing that their tribal traditions are part of Islam. This is tribal racism at its best. All I can say this is sick and needs to be stopped.

The Plaintiff

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So starting with this post I will be posting some news from Saudi Arabia on occasion.

As the headline says this is a pathetic thing. AlArabiya.net website reports that a man in the city of Taif (western province) went to court to attend a case where he has accused 3 other men of naming calling and offensive language. But when the guy gets into the court room the judge looks up and tells the plaintiff that he has half an hour to go and shave his mustache or he will delay the case. So the plaintiff refused saying it was known of his business how he grows his mustache and the judge kicks him out. So the plaintiff heads to the head judge in the court house who doesn’t help him and sends him back to the judge to apologize to him. However the judge refuses the apology and post bounds the case a mont demanding his assistant that if the plaintiff returns in a month without shaving his mustache not to let him in. So a month later the plaintiff returns hoping the judge forgot or changed his mind but the assistant won’t let him in and informs him that his case has been filed since he didn’t shave his mustache. So now he is waiting for a response from the minister of justice after writing him about this.

Commentary

Now this is unbelievable and just shows how desperately the judicial system needs to be reorganized. Judges like this one are major problem as they attempt to impose their religious views (religious Muslims believe its against islam to have a long mustache) on others even if it means taking away their rights as Muslims and Saudi citizens to a just trial as his mustache has nothing to do with his case. These few individuals provide a bad reputation to the judicial system which is more just then not.