I was never a proponent of the death penalty until the rise of death cults permeating the Middle East and threatening our world while hiding their ideology of death under the cloak of Islam.
This incurable brain disease that has infected tens of thousands defies explanation because it runs against the grain of essential human DNA prizing death over life.
It is an ideology without empathy constructed on the will to power and territorial ambitions. Those who’ve exacted the death penalty on tens of thousands of men, women and children — burning them alive, throwing them off rooftops, lowering them in cages to drown, executing them as they lie on the ground in rows — deserve nothing less.
Mankind has little choice other than to eradicate these warped beings for the sake of self-preservation, especially when they are indoctrinating little children in their culture of hate, teaching them “the joys” of cutting off the heads of their teddy bears as we’ve witnessed in schools within their de facto capital Raqaa.
There is no cure for such rabid creatures with blood on their hands, who boast of their hideous crimes on social media, seen in glorious, sickening Technicolor. They cannot be rehabilitated. Put them in prisons and they will work to recruit others to their destructive cause just as the faux caliph Baghdadi did in Iraq’s US-controlled Camp Bucca where Daesh was spawned.
Place them in isolation and the institutions of the far left will shriek human rights abuses; never mind that those devils forfeited their human rights when they chose the path to hell. We have reached the stage whereby it’s either us or them.
However, despite the 9/11 attacks that robbed the lives of almost 3,000 innocent civilians and prompted the United States to wage two wars in response, not to mention the mass killings in Paris and San Bernardino, the United States and the United Nations have the temerity to condemn Saudi Arabia’s “zero tolerance” policy toward terrorists or would be terrorists of all sectarian hues.
Responding to the Kingdom’s execution of 45 Saudi citizens, one Egyptian and a national of Chad, the US State Department issued a statement calling upon Saudi Arabia to permit “fair judicial proceedings” and “permit peaceful expressions of dissent.”
First of all, “peaceful” expressions of dissent are in short supply these days all over the world. Egypt and Bahrain are prime examples; places where human rights agencies would have us believe “peaceful protests” were quelled by the state whereas in both cases protesters took to the streets with weapons and firebombs with which to attack security forces and public institutions.
The US is particularly concerned about the execution of a Shiite cleric as “exacerbating sectarian tensions.” And this from a country that trampled upon the Geneva Conventions with renditions, abductions, torture and an offshore gulag housing hundreds of “detainees” almost all innocent of any crime.
I would remind the Obama administration that if there is one state guilty of exacerbating sectarian tensions, it is the US whose interference pitted Iraqi Sunnis against Shiites leaving a vacuum for the emissaries of Iran and Daesh to fill. And lest we forget President Obama holds to a policy of targeted extrajudicial killings and the legal right — or so he says — to assassinate American citizens like Anwar Al-Awlaki killed by an unmanned US drone.
If the inference is that Saudi’s action has heightened tensions with Iran, in fact, this is the pot calling the kettle black when Washington’s resolve to slap Tehran with more sanctions over its testing of ballistic missiles is putting the nuclear agreement at risk.
Likewise, United Nations Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon says he is “deeply dismayed” over the executions when every decent person should be gratified that terrorist plots were thwarted. Did he sob into his handkerchief when the Paris attackers and the San Bernardino shooters were gunned down by police without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom?
As a matter of principle, every nation is entitled to enact its own laws and it’s up to citizens and visitors to either respect those laws or infringe them at their own risk. Other countries would do well to keep their opinions to themselves on judicial matters unless one of their own citizens is involved and that includes Iran, which is now threatening Saudi with retribution for the execution of the Shiite cleric, a Saudi national.
Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has joined the condemnatory chorus, accusing the Kingdom of “detestable sectarian practices.” Is this a joke? His defense of a Shiite in preference to the Sunni terrorists executed on the same day shows his own sectarian bias, which is the main reason he was dropped by the US and leant on to step down from office.
In our ever more dangerous world it is up to each state to care for the safety of its people in any way it chooses fit. And in a tinderbox region strewn with terrorist cells, third columnists, proxy militias, rabble rousers and spies, who can blame authorities for taking a hard line! A fist unclenched will unlock a Pandora’s Box of death and destruction as yet unseen.(LINDA S. HEARD)
Link: http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/860476
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