Security forces loyal to the Saudi regime today opened fire on protesters in the town of Qatif, causing a handful of injuries but apparently no deaths, a day ahead of what is expected to be the largest protests the nation has yet seen.
Today’s protest was said to include only about 800 demonstrators. Similarly small protests have been reported in Shi’ite dominated Qatif over the past week, and have led to the arrests of a number of protesters by the government.
Friday’s “day of rage” is expected to draw a large number of protesters, though the monarchy’s hostility toward protests on general principle has many pessimistic that they will actually accomplish anything, at least at first.
The Saudi Interior Ministry has issued a ruling declaring protests illegal as well as “un-Islamic,” and that ruling was backed by top regime clerics. This will make protesting all the more dangerous in the nation.
Though at the same time, grievances against the regime extend far beyond the Shi’ite majority, and the massive unemployment levels (reportedly 40% amongst people in their early 20s) and widespread corruption is fueling unrest nationwide.
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What no cries of ïnnocent civilians being killed " by US and NATO?
Its OK for the Saudi's to kill protesters because they , with the murderers in Isreal are after all allies of the murderous Obama regime.
The story's about Saudi Arabia, but you used it to skewer Israel.
Israel Derangement Syndrome claims another victim. Seek help, you poor thing.
House of Saud is Israel's Satrap in Chief in the ME.
That's a strange thing to say about a regime that recently declared, "Two countries in this world have no right to exist: Iran and ISRAEL."
Time to fire that Satrap for insubordination!
every time there is a story about israel who is busy yelling about every crime committed by an arab country for the past 200 years?
i guess being able to diagnose sickness means you have taken the hypocritical oath.
You're generalizing about a specific point I made about the Giraldi article. He wrote that Israel's guilty of committing "every imaginable evil", and I listed some evils committed by others to demonstrate that Israel has done nothing of the kind. It was a specific point made about one specific line in one specific article, but that doesn't stop you from generalizing about a supposed tactic you claim I use.
Nice aim.
But if it the news were about Israel slaughtering a bunch of innocent Palestinians, you would be using it to skewer Saudi Arabia. Or Libya. Or Iran. Or Turkey. Or Syria. Or Lebanon. Or Jordan. I guess you should trademark that technique if you don't want others to do unto you as you do unto others.
So, by your logic, if I'm doing something wrong, you should do it too, because two wrongs make a right. And that's supposed to convince me?
You like to smear a certain ethnic minority by using the word "chosen" as a crude weapon. And yet you think you have the credibility to scold anyone?
For the sake of supporting his claim that he defends democracy, I challenge president Obama to stand up and condemn the use of life shooting by the mercenaries of his best friends of Saudi government to disperse the peaceful demonstrations of last night in Qatif. This is a call to stop arming Saudi government.
Saudi is going down.Half a billion young people in the Islamic world.Most are poor.When Egypt fell,that was the dam bursting.America's tyrants are finished.Just a matter of time.It is all closing in on Saudi.