The Saudi messengers of hate on Twitter
Saudi clerics with millions of followers love to ‘smash skulls’ and ‘sever limbs’… Traditionally opposed to modern technology, a growing number of religious clerics in countries such as Saudi Arabia, are now using the likes of Twitter and Facebook to promote their messages. A study conducted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, [...]
Has the Arab Spring diverted our attention from endemic racism in the Middle East? Writing in The Independent, Robert Fisk says that the Arab Spring has for the moment glossed over the huge problem with racism in Middle East and Arab countries, even as the West looks ever inward at its problems with [...]
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Global report shows sharp rise in executions in Middle East in 2011… A new report into executions across the world in 2011 shows that the number of countries using capital punishment has fallen by a third compared to a decade earlier. Despite this, those that are carrying out death sentences showed a sharp increase [...]
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King Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain speaks out on the Arab Spring and Bahrain’s own uprising… Bahrain’s uprising was extinguished brutally and with great speed when on March 15, a state of emergency was declared, and a heavily armed force of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) soldiers descended on the country from Saudi Arabia. [...]
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Journalist deported from Malaysia to Saudi Arabia, could face death under apostasy laws… Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari set off a social media firestorm last week when he tweeted an imaginary conversation with the Prophet Mohammed. In his tweets, which have since been deleted, he wrote to the Prophet: “I have loved the rebel [...]
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As Saudi Arabia lectures others in the region, at home it arrests and abuses minorities… Thirty five Ethiopian Christians are awaiting deportation from Saudi Arabia for “illicit mingling,” after police arrested them when they raided a private prayer gathering in Jeddah in mid-December, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. Of those arrested, 29 were [...]
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The practice of ‘land grabbing’ is a growing problem… Recently there has been growing media attention on the issue of land grabs, where small farmers in developing countries are evicted in favour of corporate interests, and there’s much cause for concern. According to an Oxfam report, 227 million hectares of land -an area [...]
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This week has seen a dramatic deterioration of relations between Iran and the United States… Amid claims that two men under order from Tehran plotted to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States; one journalist reporting today from Kabul has reported cross-border fire from Iran into Afghanistan in what is thought to [...]
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