Are Saudi Arabia In A Position To Criticise Other Countries?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/saudi-arabia-criticises-norway-over-human-rights-record-9301796.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594139/Saudi-Arabia-declares-atheists-terrorists-new-laws.html

[ToraToraTora]

No.

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

I know I asked a question and you haver provided an answer, but I expected more from you TTT than this.

[Gromit]

The Saudi tyrants are nut jobs and hypocrits.

They finance most of the worlds Islamic extremists (including ones in this country) and they export terrorism.

We turn a blind eye to their nefarious activities because we depend on them for oil. Remember that next time you are laughing at electric cars and wind turbines.

[ToraToraTora]

fair enough: The whole Islamic religion is based on Barbarity so how they feel qualified to comment on human rights is anyones guess.

[sp1814]

15 out of the 19 terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks were Saudi nationals.

Weird, huh?

[Old_Geezer]

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye ?

That said, if we all waited until we were perfect no one would benefit from the friendly criticism they could be taking on board and improving themselves from.

[emmie]

not in a million years, and then some

[ToraToraTora]

read this bit? " It also expressed concern at “increasing cases of domestic violence, rape crimes and inequality in riches”" - just remind us what the sentence for being raped in SA is! Oh and perhaps the 45000 princes of the realm would like to tackle the "Inequality in riches" accusation! PMSL and they are having a go at Norway where a bloke killed over 100 people and only got 11 year! probably the most liberal outfit on Earth!

[mushroom25]

//a bloke killed over 100 people and only got 11 year! probably the most liberal outfit on Earth! //

ah but - under sharia law, he could have paid diyya. under the same legal code, if he'd insulted the prophet, he could have been beheaded.

[Bazile]

When the oil reserves are depleted , the UK and other governments may feel a bit less hesitating to criticise them .

Oh , i've just had a thought though - how many barrells of oil have they got left .. this may take a while