Tryanny In Saudi Arabia Ignored?

[Lilyofthevalley]

Why is that?

news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050213/od_nm/saudi_valentines_dc_1

The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious vigilantes, have banned shops from selling any red flowers in the run-up to February 14.

Florists say the move is part of an annual campaign by the committee – whose members are known as “mutawwaeen” or volunteers – to prevent Saudis marking a festival they believe flouts their austere doctrine of “Wahhabi” Islam.

 

[geezerbob]

Tyranny? I doubt it. Theocratic, maybe. Anarchistic, probably. You know that. Why did you use tyranny in the thread title? And, since it doesn’t hurt anyone, at least as stated, what business is it of ours? Some states bar the sale of alcohol on election days. Some still have blue laws banning the sale of certain items on Sundays and limiting store hours. Same situation as the one in Saudi Arabia. Is this tyranny?

 

[Lilyofthevalley]

Geezer, that’s just a little something. In Saudi Arabia beheadings occure regulary. Usually it has to do with someone NOT practicing Islam. The outcome could have been entirely different. According to Baharu, “There was talk in the prison that we might be executed by beheading. Had it not been for intervention from our Christian brothers and sisters, it is possible that this could have happened.”

Sadly, while in detention, the Christians learned from the other prisoners that two unnamed Nigerian Christians were recently beheaded.

ICC thanks everyone who wrote letters on the behalf of the 14 Chrsitians. Please continue to express your concern about the treatment of Christians in Saudi Arabia so that future arrests can be avoided.persecution.org/concern/2002/03/p4.html
Are those people free?

 

[geezerbob]

Lily, I know that there a lot of things in Saudi that are not right and I feel that the government there is doomed to fall, one way or another and sooner or later. The Saudi government is two-faced and reacts to outside pressures only when it is in the best interests of the ruling family to do so. They have allowed the extremists there to virtually take over the country and I doubt that they will ever be able to regain complete control. The rulers are walking a tightrope, trying not to overly anger the west and, at the same time, trying to control the extremists without angering them to the point of open armed rebellion. Like it or not, our best choice under the current circumstances, is to continue to support the existing government and lean on them to gradually implement change. Overwise, the extremists will take over and we’ll have another Afghanistan or Iran. My point was that “tyranny” didn’t fit the problem(?) that was described, thus making the title of the thread misleading (kind of like what several posters here do on a regular basis).