Since Recently :
There is a saying in my homeland you play with fire and you might get burnt .That is what happened to Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi who has a website 'Free Saudi Liberals ' to encourage debate about religion and politics has been charged with 1,000 lashes and ten years in jail . He is also fined 1 million riyals ($266,000) .So that's 50 lashes for 20 weeks . He is being charged for
insulting Islam and for slamming country clerics . His lawyer has also been given 15 years in prison and Raif Badawi has already received 50 of his lashes .His wife who lives in Canada with his children fears for him due to him being diabetic .
Now if any of you fellow readers have any relatives who are diabetic you know that due to the bodys inability to to process glucose it makes wounds harder to heal and can cause complications .If he grew up knowing the laws of his homeland and resides there .Why break them ? . America argues free speech but they aren't willing to go any further because they are dependent on Saudi Arabia's oil and trying to keep up appearances and keep their union civil . But what about other countries who at United Nations meetings are quick to proclaim human rights , what has happened to them ? Have they forgotten human rights . Or are they only quick to when one of their citizen's rights are being violated . Are we not all humans ?
Let them deal with their own some would proclaim but when the government which governs us pass unfair rulings in which we are involved we want international help . Nobody is perfect but I thought we were pass the days of whipping . The man isn't a horse or donkey . He isn't an animal you're trying to break in .I thought that was why we were higher up on the list .Imprisonment i understand , but 1,000 lashes ! . Plus they have knowledge of his medical history , have they no compassion .No , an example must be made . Laws are what upholds a country . People cannot be told what to do and it is expected of them to do it without fear .They have a religion to protect , traditions .
I thought we were born free and unless we are harming someone physically or mentally then measures have to be taken. Free speech they say .He was never free .
However it is not Raif Badawi 's first offense . But he decided to speak . Something he is paying the price for .Has this changed anything . For me it has . Religion holds us and breaks us . Some use religion for there own deeds .If they had given him 50 I might've understood .
If the people didn't stand for it , it wouldn't happen. Yet who am I to judge their laws and religion. Societies which have denounced religion are those societies in which the youths are going astray .
We need to get ourselves to get together .
Should he be freed , I won't say , the humanitarian side says yes , the side that follows rules and regulations and guidelines says no .Is it right , to them yes , to you no .
Since the death of King Abdullah will things change ?
It might but somewhere in the world something else is going .Remember that this world isn't perfect. Another inhumane act is going to pop up .
Are we not to live and express ourselves . But he knew what he was supposedly getting into to , he was playing with fire . Or another anology is that he flew too close to the sun and the heat melted the wax that was holding the feather together for the wings .Didn't he read about young Icarius ?
What are your thoughts ?
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