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A terrorist behind one of the bombings in Sri Lanka was an Islamist Extremist Imam with many lectures online and on YouTube, yet YouTube never banned him for his terrorist ideology.
 

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290 dead from Islamist terrorists in Sri Lanka. Nearly 6x as many deaths as Christchurch with a quarter of the media coverage.
 
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Student headed to college in Michigan beheaded by Saudi Arabian government

David Jesse
Detroit Free Press
Published 7:07 p.m. ET April 23, 2019 | Updated 8:23 p.m. ET April 24, 2019

Mujtaba Al-Sweikat was sentenced to death for participating in pro-democracy rallies, officials say.


DETROIT – A Saudi Arabian man who was arrested as a teenager as he was getting ready to fly to America to begin his studies at Western Michigan University was beheaded by the government Tuesday, according to a report from an official press agency.

Mujtaba al-Sweikat was 17 when he was detained at King Fahd International Airport in 2012. Earlier that year, Al-Sweikat allegedly attended a pro-democracy rally in the midst of the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, which led to his arrest. He was intending to visit Western Michigan, where he had been accepted as a student, the university confirmed to the Free Press in 2017.

More than 35 people, including al-Sweikat, were listed on a release from the Saudi Press Agency, announcing the killings.

Sweikat was charged with armed disobedience against the king, as well as attacking, shooting and injuring security forces, civilians and passers-by. He was also accused of destroying public property, causing chaos and disrupting the peace, by participating in a terrorist cell, to make and deliver Molotov cocktails.

During his time in custody, Sweikat was severely beaten all over his body, including the soles of his feet, and convicted on the basis of a confession extracted through torture, according to Reprieve, an international human rights group that has offices in New York and London and operates with partners around the world.

After his arrest, he was not allowed to contact anybody for three days, and his family was not allowed to visit him for three months, during which time he was kept in solitary confinement, according to Reprieve.

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., expressed her concern over the killing.

"The violent killing of Mutjaba al-Sweikat is disturbing," she said in a statement. "Mutjaba had a bright future ahead of him and Michigan was prepared to welcome him as a student. Instead, he faced inhumane torture and pain ultimately leading to his execution.

"Every human, regardless of where they may be in the world, should have the right to speak openly without fear of persecution or death.”

Hearing and death sentence


In August 2015, Mujtaba was brought before the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh. Mujtaba was not given prior notice of the earing and was not given access to a lawyer. He was convicted solely based on a “confession” extracted under torture, Reprieve said in a statement.

In June 2016, the Riyadh court sentenced Mujtaba and 13 other co-accused to death.

Despite his raising his torture and ill treatment at trial, and the U.N.'s frequent communications on his behalf, the kingdom did not provide him with an effective way to complain, did not conduct an investigation in line with the Istanbul Protocol and did not commute his death sentence for running counter to the prohibition against execution for juveniles, Reprieve said.

The government eventually responded to the U.N. Special Procedures in January 2018, denying all allegations made in the complaints and stating that the evidence provided by the United Nations was false.

100 executions this year

The kingdom has executed more than 100 people in the first four months of 2019, and is on track to kill more than 300 this year, Reprieve posted on Twitter on Tuesday.

"This is another egregious display of brutality by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman," Reprieve director Maya Foa said in a statement. "At least three of the people executed today were arrested as teenagers and tortured into false confessions. Many were convicted of non-lethal crimes, such as attending protests.

"That the Saudi regime believes it has impunity to carry out such patently illegal executions, without notice, should shock its international partners into action. The U.S. and the U.K., in particular, must ensure there are consequences, and that no one else is unlawfully executed for exercising their right to freedom of expression.”

As news of al-Sweikat's imprisonment was publicized in 2017, faculty at Western Michigan issued an open letter calling for his release.

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Mujtaba Al-Sweikat is believed to be facing execution in Saudi Arabia for participating in protests. He was arrested on way to visit Western Michigan University, where he was accepted to attend. (Photo: Reprieve)

"As academics and teachers, we take pride in defending the rights of all people, wherever they may be in the world, to speak freely and debate openly without hindrance or fear. We publicly declare our support for Mujtaba'a and the 13 others facing imminent execution. No one should face beheading for expressing beliefs in public protests.

"Mujtaba'a showed great promise as an applicant for English language and pre-finance studies. He was arrested at the airport gates as he readied to board a plane to visit our campus. We were unaware that at the moment we were ready to welcome him, he was locked away, beaten and tortured and made to 'confess' to acts for which he was condemned to death."
 
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Am I wrong to suggest the latest example of an extremist blowing herself up*, & taking her kids & a couple of policemen, to draw a comparison with the IS women wanting repatriation to Aus, feel sorry for the kids, but ....

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-25/pregnant-wife-of-sri-lanka-bomber-detonates-suicide-vest/11045306

Save the pity for the families in Sri Lanka that are left behind, particularly those of the policemen who left for work earlier in the day.

How to deal with those who get back:
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/mums-dark-past-as-islamic-state-bride-revealed-after-losing-mobile-phone/news-story/726face1f92e6edc423c67df585a9232
The mandatory photo of the kids with weapons is disconcerting.
 
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Except for the whole three pashas thing.

I mean honestly, we hear so often about how Western imperialism and chauvinism ultimately manifests itself as Nazism if unrestrained.

But even the most tolerant version of Islam led to a genocide that set the template for the Nazis (the Nazis cited it!)

The religion is simply bad. Imagine Nazism as a religion. That’s Islam.
 

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I mean honestly, we hear so often about how Western imperialism and chauvinism ultimately manifests itself as Nazism if unrestrained.

But even the most tolerant version of Islam led to a genocide that set the template for the Nazis (the Nazis cited it!)

The religion is simply bad. Imagine Nazism as a religion. That’s Islam.
As opposed to say, the Dutch or the Spanish or the French empires?
 

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What was the worst the Spaniards did? Shut down the Aztec child sacrifice and slaughter the murderers? Imo: well played Cortes.
For example: 'The cruelty of the Spaniards [in the New World]," Kamen concludes, "was incontrovertible; it was pitiless, barbaric and never brought under control by the colonial regime." When, for instance, 15 colonists in the Yucatan were killed by the Maya in 1546, the Spaniards retaliated with the enslavement of 2,000 men, the hanging of their women, and the burning of six native priests.'

By extension then the US deserved 9/11 for their past slavery. Well played, OBL.
 

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For example: 'The cruelty of the Spaniards [in the New World]," Kamen concludes, "was incontrovertible; it was pitiless, barbaric and never brought under control by the colonial regime." When, for instance, 15 colonists in the Yucatan were killed by the Maya in 1546, the Spaniards retaliated with the enslavement of 2,000 men, the hanging of their women, and the burning of six native priests.'

By extension then the US deserved 9/11 for their past slavery. Well played, OBL.
The Native Americans deserved it. See above.
 
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For example: 'The cruelty of the Spaniards [in the New World]," Kamen concludes, "was incontrovertible; it was pitiless, barbaric and never brought under control by the colonial regime." When, for instance, 15 colonists in the Yucatan were killed by the Maya in 1546, the Spaniards retaliated with the enslavement of 2,000 men, the hanging of their women, and the burning of six native priests.'

By extension then the US deserved 9/11 for their past slavery. Well played, OBL.
When it comes to initial European colonization of the Americas, particularly from Iberia, both sides tend to be demonized and dehumanized to fit narrative and biases of the individual.

Tarring all Native Americans for the actions of a select ruling elite would be like blaming ordinary 1940s French, Spanish, Italians, (the victims in other words) citizens etc… for the actions of Hitler and the Nazi army under his command; utterly stupid and blatantly racist. And some of the wildest claims to be honest are virtually impossible to verify and reek of seeking justification for atrocities committed in attempt to assuage European conscience, similar to what happened to Jews in Europe.

In that same vein it’s hardly fathomable that a few hundred Europeans slaughtered tens of thousands of people. It doesn’t surprise me though that some Iberians don’t mind this and like to propagate this sort of version of events given that that they themselves were actually properly conquered and enslaved by Muslims for almost a millennium. The role reversal would’ve done wonders for their dignity and self-esteem after hundreds of years under the rule of a foreign power and at last gave them something to beat their chest about.

Early European colonization was more akin to a civil war with subjugated Native American groups rising up at the arrival of Europeans. Due to the isolation of ‘New World’ inhabitants, eventually tens (if not thousands) of thousands of Native Americans (including Native American allies) succumbed to diseases commonly found across Europe, Africa and Asia (Old World). This turn of events, more than the sword, allowed for Iberian culture along with Europeans and mixed race individuals to gradually take prominence across Latin American in the subsequent decades and centuries.

The annihilation of pure bred Native Americans had little to do with superior technology of their adversaries, just the misfortune of being disconnected from the rest of world for so long and their immune system being more biologically vulnerable to foreign diseases.

Even though Africans were less ‘technologically’ advanced than the ruling Native American empires, many African languages, cultures and tradition are still fairly widespread today. Africans were subjugated but never experienced an accidental biological genocide that struck the Americas hence why most African nations to this day remain predominantly black.
 
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