Saudi Arabia sentences Shia Cleric to Death

[Pakistani E]

Did you read the verdict in Arabic or do you know this case or his militant group? I can't post graphic photos here but I can give you some hints.

In other words:

The "oppressed Shias of KSA":

View attachment 135706أبوموسى العصافرة by Tayseer Alabyadh, on Flickr

View attachment 135707من متنزه جبل كوهسنكي by Tayseer Alabyadh, on Flickr

View attachment 135708Ashura Al Hussain by Tayseer Alabyadh, on Flickr

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View attachment 135710Ashura Al Hussain by Tayseer Alabyadh, on Flickr
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View attachment 135712من أرض الدوخلة by Tayseer Alabyadh, on Flickr

View attachment 135713عروس من أرض الدوخلة by Tayseer Alabyadh, on Flickr

Notice the Shia religious practices that are done in public. "Lashing yourself during Ashura".

Some of the richest businessmen in KSA are Shias too. Shias are part of the Shura Council.

What about Sunni Muslims of Iran? Is there any high ranking Sunni in Iran? Despite there being more Sunnis in Iran than Shias in KSA?

I am sorry but nowhere have you posted evidence of him committing terrorist activities. And why did you bring Iran up? I am not Iranian, neither am I a fan of the Mullahs in Tehran.

 

[ChennaiDude]

The point is that you initially wrote that there are barely any Hindus in KSA while there are around 400.000 in total from all countries. So it is still a considerable number. That's one of the highest Hindu diasporas in the world or surely outside of South Asia.

The actual numbers are disputed. They vary a lot. You also got the illegals.

Nope ..USA/UK have a higher number.

 

[Mosamania]

I am sorry but nowhere have you posted evidence of him committing terrorist activities. And why did you bring Iran up? I am not Iranian, neither am I a fan of the Mullahs in Tehran.

His group did commit terrorist activities, the group he was trying to start but failed, see here for example:

German diplomatic mission was shot and burned while they were in Awamiyah, it was during the time Germany was to sell Leopard 2 tanks to KSA.

A Pakistani truck driver was shot and killed in Awamiyah again, by the group he created, they did to protest what they felt was Pakistani involvement in Bahrain.

A Bangladeshi was shot and killed by gunmen at Ayameiyah by the group he created for the same reasons as mentioned earlier, they target all South Asians incrementally.

This was his armed group in its infancy, either a Hizboullah branch, or an affiliate inside of Saudi Arabia, Hizboullah is classified as a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia. This group is no longer active, and peace was resumed in Qatif and Awameyah following the arrest of this man.

 

[Arabian Legend]

His group did commit terrorist activities, the group he was trying to start but failed, see here for example:

German diplomatic mission was shot and burned while they were in Awamiyah, it was during the time Germany was to sell Leopard 2 tanks to KSA.

A Pakistani truck driver was shot and killed in Awamiyah again, by the group he created, they did to protest what they felt was Pakistani involvement in Bahrain.

A Bangladeshi was shot and killed by gunmen at Ayameiyah by the group he created for the same reasons as mentioned earlier, they target all South Asians incrementally.

This was his armed group in its infancy, either a Hizboullah branch, or an affiliate inside of Saudi Arabia, Hizboullah is classified as a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia. This group is no longer active, and peace was resumed in Qatif and Awameyah following the arrest of this man.

Troublemakers will be dealt with with an iron fest. Those who raise a voice can pound sand for all we care.

 

[Bad Wolf]

These shortsighted measures will only drive the Shiite Saudi Arabians into Iran's arms. Anyway, the need of the hour is to create the Saudi version of Hezbollah, to declare independence and grab the oil rich provinces.

It's called Hezbollah Al-Hejaz and you are about three decades late with that idea.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Raising fears of renewed sectarian tensions in the region, Saudi Arabia’s top court has sentenced a charismatic opposition leader to death for speaking out against the kingdom’s ruling family.

Bashar al-Assad( House of Terrorist Saud spending billions upon billions supporting terrorist in Syria to topple Bashar al-Assad cause they say sunnis arent being treated fairly. apparently same question raised about Terrorist House Of Saud will get you death penalty by Kangaroo court in occupied Arabia) He has a wide following, particularly among young people in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, home to most of the country’s minority Shiites, who are considered heretics by the Sunni-ruled government.

After being imprisoned for nearly two years, al-Nimr appeared in Riyadh’s Specialized Criminal Court Wednesday with his lawyer and two brothers. Charged with terrorism offences and “breaking allegiance to the king,” the judge upheld the country’s harshest sentence — “crucifixion” — where the decapitated body is publicly displayed. His brothers were reportedly detained after the sentencing.

Al-Nimr’s family urged Saudi authorities to reconsider the sentence, given the cleric’s teachings to never use force against the government. “They use violent bullets, we will use the roar of the word,” al-Nimr said in a sermon in 2011.

In another sermon that year, al-Nimr stated: “It is not permitted to use weapons and spread corruption in society.”

Al-Nimr was arrested in July 2012 following a gun battle in which he was shot in the leg four times for allegedly resisting arrest. His relatives deny police claims of rioting, saying the protests were peaceful and that al-Nimr never resisted arrest or owned a gun.

The confrontation took place after a fiery speech al-Nimr delivered earlier that month following Arab Spring-inspired protests across the region. “What gives the House of Saud the power to inherit the throne?” he said. “The House of Saud and Khalifa (in Bahrain) are mere collaborators with and pawns of the British and their cohorts. It is our right, and the right of the Bahraini people, and all people everywhere, to choose our leaders and demand that rule by succession be done away with as it contradicts our religion.”

Al-Nimr was held for eight months before being charged and his trial was delayed twice to allow the prosecution to gather more evidence.

Amnesty International described the trial as “seriously flawed.”

“Eyewitnesses, whose testimonies were the only evidence used against him, were not brought to court to testify,” said Said Boumedouha, deputy director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa program. “The sheikh was denied the most basic means to prepare for his defence and was not represented by legal counsel for some of the proceedings because the authorities did not inform his lawyer of some dates of the hearings.”

Toby Matthieson, a researcher at Cambridge University and author of The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism, told The Star the sentence has the ability to heighten Sunni-Shiite tensions in the region.

“The Saudis have a long history with Sheikh Nimr,” he added, noting an amnesty agreement in 1993 between the Saudi government and Shiite opposition that al-Nimr rejected. “They want to get rid of the one guy who has become a symbol of the (opposition) movement. But they may not execute him. If they did, he would be the first political prisoner to be executed in Saudi Arabia in decades. They like to use these people as bargaining chips.”

Al-Nimr’s detention and trial sparked warnings from Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Shiite clergy in Iran and the militant group Hezbollah. Activists in the U.K., Europe and Australia also held public demonstrations calling for his release.

Prominent religious leader Sayed Mahdi Modarresi blasted Saudi Arabia in a fiery blog post earlier this month, calling it “a country that belongs to the Stone Age rather than the 21st century” and attributing its extremist laws to the militant Salafi interpretation it adopts — and shares with the Islamic State group.

“Saudi Arabia is a country which has no constitution and no elections,” he wrote in the Huffington Post U.K. “Laws are enacted by royal decrees and ratified by a toothless parliament whose members are installed by the monarch. If this is how the Sunni citizens are treated, you can only imagine what the (Shiite) face on a daily basis. ”

People took to Twitter on Wednesday to condemn the sentence. In the U.K., 18-year-old Ali Reza Versi tweeted, “If the Saudis have the audacity and stupidity to execute ‪#SheikhNimr, it would open the floodgates to a powerful revolt.” London-based artist Zainab Tejani said: “The man who tried to create peace has been sentenced to death by the Saudi regime. The world must awaken.”

Saudi Arabia sentences reformist Shiite cleric to ‘crucifixion’ | Toronto Star

My friend, just take a deep breath and accept the fact that he will die.

 

[Pakistani E]

His group did commit terrorist activities, the group he was trying to start but failed, see here for example:

German diplomatic mission was shot and burned while they were in Awamiyah, it was during the time Germany was to sell Leopard 2 tanks to KSA.

A Pakistani truck driver was shot and killed in Awamiyah again, by the group he created, they did to protest what they felt was Pakistani involvement in Bahrain.

A Bangladeshi was shot and killed by gunmen at Ayameiyah by the group he created for the same reasons as mentioned earlier, they target all South Asians incrementally.

This was his armed group in its infancy, either a Hizboullah branch, or an affiliate inside of Saudi Arabia, Hizboullah is classified as a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia. This group is no longer active, and peace was resumed in Qatif and Awameyah following the arrest of this man.

I have no sympathy with terrorists, but I do know that the Saudi regime is just as Sectarian as the Iranian regime, Iran routinely hangs Sunnis for "terrorism", I'm just wondering if the Saudis are not doing the same? I mean a picture of an attack is hardly evidence linking someone to the attack, again can you post the whole judgement that was passed and look where it links him to this attack?

 

[Mosamania]

I have no sympathy with terrorists, but I do know that the Saudi regime is just as Sectarian as the Iranian regime, Iran routinely hangs Sunnis for "terrorism", I'm just wondering if the Saudis are not doing the same? I mean a picture of an attack is hardly evidence linking someone to the attack, again can you post the whole judgement that was passed and look where it links him to this attack?

This year the first Shia minister in Saudi history was appointed, it is not about him being Shia, it is about dissent, the same day 32 Saudi Sunni militants were also sentenced to death for engaging in a shoot out with Saudi police.

وزير شيعي في السعودية لأول مرة.. ومغردون يعتبرون تعيينه تحولا تاريخيا

He is currently the head and spokesperson of the Shoura council, essentially the Saudi parliament.

Also a famous Saudi cleric was arrested for Anti-Shia remarks. It is part of the Saudi drive for "One Nation" that started last year. And the king gave a speech that "Nation is the only thing that matters in the country, irregardless of Religious and racial backgrounds" "One nation, one people" signs are all over the country right now. So yeah sectarian Saudi arabia doesn't hold much ground anymore.

 

[Asian.Century]

Iran says Saudi Shia cleric's death sentence risks tensions

Published about 2 hours ago

A Bahraini women holds up a portrait of prominent Saudi Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr during clashes with riot police following a protest in solidarity with Nimr, in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama, on October 15, 2014. — AFP

TEHRAN: A top Iranian official has warned that a death sentence passed on a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia could escalate tensions and called for the decision be reversed.

Nimr al-Nimr, a driving force behind demonstrations against the Sunni authorities that erupted in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich east in 2011, was convicted of sedition, according to his brother.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Nimr al-Nimr's conviction for sedition, if confirmed, would likely sow discord.

“If the news that a Saudi court sentenced Sheikh Nimr to death is true, it will undoubtedly hurt Muslims' feelings and provoke international reaction,” he was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency.
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“Such measures do not contribute to the restoration of peace and calm in the region.”

Nimr was also convicted of seeking “foreign meddling” in the country, a reference to Iran, and of “disobeying” the kingdom's rulers and taking up arms against security forces, his brother Mohammed al-Nimr wrote on Twitter.

Abdollahian urged that the sentence on Nimr, who is in his 50s and had been on trial since March 2013, be overturned.

“It is expected that Saudi officials will take a realistic approach to prevent the carrying out of this sentence, and of an escalation of tensions in the Islamic world,” he told Mehr.

Most of Saudi Arabia's estimated two million Shias live in the east, where the vast majority of the wealthy kingdom's oil reserves lie, and many complain of marginalisation.

They began demonstrating in February 2011 after an outbreak of violence between Shia pilgrims and religious police in the Muslim holy city of Medina in western Saudi Arabia.
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Protests escalated after the kingdom's intervention in neighbouring Bahrain to support a Sunni monarchy against an uprising led by that country's Shia majority.

Regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia have been at odds since unrest broke out in Syria in 2011, but they have recently engaged in a diplomatic push to patch up their differences.

Iran says Saudi Shia cleric's death sentence risks tensions - World - DAWN.COM

 

[Arabian Legend]

This year the first Shia minister in Saudi history was appointed, it is not about him being Shia, it is about dissent, the same day 32 Saudi Sunni militants were also sentenced to death for engaging in a shoot out with Saudi police.

وزير شيعي في السعودية لأول مرة.. ومغردون يعتبرون تعيينه تحولا تاريخيا

He is currently the head and spokesperson of the Shoura council, essentially the Saudi parliament.

Also a famous Saudi cleric was arrested for Anti-Shia remarks. It is part of the Saudi drive for "One Nation" that started last year. And the king gave a speech that "Nation is the only thing that matters in the country, irregardless of Religious and racial backgrounds" "One nation, one people" signs are all over the country right now. So yeah sectarian Saudi arabia doesn't hold much ground anymore.

@Mosamania why do you make it such a long story. Saudi Arabia doesn't distinguish b/t its people. A citizen is a citizen regardless of his background. Sunnis and Shias enjoy equal right and treatment. Shia schools, courts, places of worship..etc build by the government, Shia representatives in the Shoura council. Shias are part of our demography, patriotic and have contributed to the society.

A shia in the RSAF.

Rafdis scholars and Wahhabi scholars cracking jocks.

Just like there are troublemakers among the Sunnis there are also few among the Shias. Troublemakers get tried, when they are convicted the law executed upon them. Very plain and simple. Not barbaric and uncivilized like that state across the gulf.

 

[al-Hasani]

@Mosamania why do you make it such a long story. Saudi Arabia doesn't distinguish b/t its people. A citizen is a citizen regardless of his background. Sunnis and Shias enjoy equal right and treatment. Shia schools, courts, places of worship..etc build by the government, Shia representatives in the Shoura council. Shias are part of our demography, patriotic and have contributed to the society.

A shia in the RSAF.

Rafdis scholars and Wahhabi scholars cracking jocks.

Just like there are troublemakers among the Sunnis there are also few among the Shias. Troublemakers get tried, when they are convicted the law executed upon them. Very plain and simple. Not barbaric and uncivilized like that state across the gulf.

Brother, there is no point dealing with the usual retards on PDF pioneered by the Ajam. Save your time. There is zero tolerance for criminals in KSA and that is why we have such a safe country with almost barely any serious crime. It would even be a smaller issue without the migrants. All while other nearby countries are infested with crime on all levels. But we (GCC) rule supreme.

That last photo though and the "troll face". Typical Najdi. Content Rafida Majoos and "Wahhabi" Nasibis. Who would have thought that when Sunnis and Shias are killing each other every day in KSA? For the usual retards on PDF my last sentence was obviously ironical as nobody in KSA is killing each other due to sects, ethnicity etc.

Time to grow a real badass beard after seeing this photo.

My friend, just take a deep breath and accept the fact that he will die.