ArabianEmpires&Caliphates
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Certainly Arabia is the oldest country on earth it even existed before Mesopotamia and Egypt but I was talking about Saudi Arabia.
So it should be called the Kingdom of Hijaz, Najd, Eastern Arabia, Southern Arabia, Northern Arabia, Sham (Northern KSA is part of the Levant), Mesopotamia (Northeastern KSA is part of historical Mesopotamia), Yemen (Southern KSA is part of Southern Arabia/historical Yemen/), Tihamah, Al-Yamana, Jabal Shammar etc.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_regions_in_Saudi_Arabia
Kingdom of Arabia on its own makes no political sense as that would require control of ALL of Arabia to make sense/have any type of legitimacy.
So it is easier to include Saudia (the dynastic name of the current ruling dynasty 1 out of 100's in recorded history) and Arabia. People of KSA do not have a problem with this as Arabia is included in the name and the ruling family has enjoyed widespread support since the beginning due to the ground realities of KSA, wealth, stability etc. While KSA is not a perfect country, far from it, (which country is), the majority, if they truly wanted, could and would remove the House of Saud and change status quo but there is so far no need for it and we have all seen how "well" regime changes have gone in the region, in your country included. No offense.
In any case this is something that Saudi Arabians will decide and nobody else, I don't understand why foreigners are obsessed about this topic?
I dont care about the Mullahs of Iran or Erdogan,what happened to Khashoggi in my country(chopped into pieces),how it happened,who ordered it is what i care about.
You know it was staged trial,just a show.
Will you admit it or will you be like the Erdogan fanboys,support MBS no matter what?
What differentiates you from the fanboys?
So selective outrage, just as I wrote.
Where was your outrage when the Iranian Mullah regime murdered an Iranian Arab political activist in the Netherlands, your other country? I did not even see a single thread created on PDF about this.
KSA (every government official did that while giving speeches to Western and non-Western media) admitted this own goal (the first in history of such a kind) and locals were shocked. To this day this incident is shrouded in mystery and quite frankly to me it looks like inside sabotage and the timing (just as KSA and MBS were opening up and gaining goodwill even in the Western press) is very suspicious.
If MBS was truly behind this then it was a sign of his nativity, young age and it was a huge own goal as I already wrote many times before. This topic (on PDF) has been discussed 100 times. It appears every few months here.
Don't confuse me with blind fanboys, I criticize KSA and Arab countries/Arab world/events in the Arab world constantly on PDF, don't confuse me combating lies/propaganda (which every impartial, including moderators, person here on PDF can attest to is rampant of late) here with me being some kind of "blind regime follower" that lives in cuckoo land where the rulers/government cannot commit any crimes, faults etc. If you knew Arabic, you would witness the huge Saudi Arabian social media presence and realize that discussions (controversial included) are a daily thing.
You always use that against Turkey, yes true the situation worsened in this regard but there are still oppositional newpapers in Turkey and quite big ones actually.
The only reason why Saudi Arabia doesnt jail (or dismember) more oppositional journalists is because they simply dont exist, you cant arrest or kill something that doesnt exist.
See there was one very mild critic of the Saudi family and he got brutally murdered in such a cruel way that shocked the whole world.
So let me ask you where you get the never to take this as an argument against Turkey while playing the saudi royal family mouthpiece here?
I mention it because people who live in a glass house should not make moral lectures and pretend that they care for "moral" reasons. As I wrote before (also), if that criticism came from citizens of Denmark, Netherlands, Scandinavia and such countries with clean track records (in recent era that is) I would look the other way.
An the Khashoggi case was an anomaly hence the reaction of the world. Nobody would blink (take much notice) if this was done by Russia, Iran or North Korea.
Besides Khashoggi was not some completely innocent lamb as people (Western media has talked about this as well) and he might have been leaking out state secrets to enemies. His connection to power circles is well-known as was his ties to MB/Turkey/Qatar/West. We don't know the reasons, I can only say that KSA would/has never gone after journalists in this fashion before.
Besides he was not really a "journalist", he was much more than just that. He worked for the royal court and was loyal to KSA (at least based only on his writings on Washington Post) to the end.
Nor do I support his killing either so not sure what I need to write? I have nothing to do with it either.
I care about my country and people, irrespective of regime. Just like you blindly follow Erdogan's policy all over the region no matter if it is detrimental to Turkey or not. I have seen your posts so don't pretend otherwise. So if I am a regime mouthpiece (using your logic), you are the exact same thing.
As for the rest, see my reply to your compatriot.
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