Where is the confected outrage?

[cm85au]

Saudi Arabia executes 47 people in one day including Shia cleric

Saudi Arabia has executed 47 people for terrorism, including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Most of those executed on Saturday were involved in a series of attacks carried out by al-Qaida from 2003-06, the interior ministry said.

However, it also detained hundreds of members of its Shi’ite minority after protests in 2011-13, during which several policemen were killed in shooting and petrol bomb attacks. Several of those held had been sentenced to death.

The interior ministry statement began with Koranic verses justifying the use of execution and state television showed footage of the aftermath of al-Qaida attacks in the last decade. Saudi grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh appeared on television soon after to describe the executions as just.

Iran’s Shia leadership has warned that executing Nimr “would cost Saudi Arabia dearly”.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/02/saudi-arabia-executes-47-people-in-one-day-including-ir...

I wonder what happened to the outrage 'tourists'? Maybe they're on holidays. I'm sure if this had happened in the USA Ban ki-Moon and the other members of the traveling cocktail party known as the UN would have held an emergency session. They may even have wheeled out Kofi Annan who would have said something frofound like "I am very concerned".

[debra9275]

i think it's terrible,  It's not much different to ISIS.  Iran and Iraq are apparently outraged too because the Saudis executed a shia cleric. Most of the world is outraged by the execuutions, one only has to google to see that, but the Saudi's are US allies

 why would anyone's outrage be 'confected'?

[moonflyte]

Its barbaric and inhuman but that's what these countries are like. Their country, their laws. 

[myoclon1cjerk]

Our allies and trading partners. 🙂

[moonflyte]

So what, we can't tell another county what to do just because we trade with them. Who are you casting your eye on now? Australian business who export? 

[opmania]

Confected outrage

LOL  

Must remember that one for the future

Hope you don't mind if I use it once in a while

[myoclon1cjerk]

Why bring this up at all?

[imastawka]

     I thought someone was discontinuing another lolly range     

[the_great_she_elephant]

My newspaper this morning contained an article which said, in part "Although most of the 47 men killed in the Kingdom's biggest mass executuion for decades were Sunnis convicted of  al Quaida attacks it was Nimr and three other Shi'ites all accused of involvement in shooting police who attracted the most attention in the region and beyond." 

The article went on to state The US State Department said, Nimr's execution "risks exacerbatng sectarian tension at a time when they  urgentlyneed to be  to reduced."

I couldn't agree more.with "allies" like this, who needs enemies? Sometimes you just want to throw your hand up in despair.

[village_person]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Why bring this up at all?

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Couldn't agree more. Let's get into meaty subjects like "hairstyle trends for 2016".