While we focus on the beheadings in the fight with ISIS in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has beheaded 57 criminals this year, according to Agence France-Presse. The most recent beheading was for the crime of drug smuggling.
Is there a double-standard in our dealings with the different countries of the Middle East? Does it have a relationship to oil and economics?
More:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/320976#.VSQIEfnF9AQ
Some Americans have a limitless capacity for exaggeration. Right-wing Conservative Christian radio commentator Rick Wiles compared America to East Germany and said he feared pastors would be locked up into captivity, tortured, and “taken away in the middle of the night.”
He said all of this freely while on the radio.
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Is the answer in the Middle East to kill as many people as possible…or is it more subtle and nuanced, with “grey areas?”
“Bill O’Reilly stated definitively, multiple times tonight, that he believes the United States and the world are in a ‘holy war’ against ISIS and the White House needs to accept that fact. He said, ‘This is now a so-called holy war between radical jihadists and everyone else, including peaceful Muslims,'” according to Mediaite.
“O’Reilly again faulted President Obama for a lack of leadership in taking on the terror threat.
“But O’Reilly was also shocked by the ‘frightening… nonsense’ from State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf on how the U.S. can’t kill its way out of war with ISIS.”
OK, Fine. 