| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 14/10/15 13:04:00 |
| It is ironic that people criticise the European colonial powers for imposing their standards on the colonised peoples, and then also criticise Saudi Arabia - which was never colonised by the European powers - for maintaining its own traditions. IMHO the only realistic alternative to the present Saudi government would be a religious-led regime that would make Isis/Daesh look like civilised moderates. It is therefore in the interests of all civilised people that there should not be an Islamist revolution in Saudi Arabia and that we should maintain relations with the present government and do our best to encourage them to accept more civilised arrangements for their legal system, treatment of women and foreign domestic workers. There was hope that the Middle East was moving forwards with the Arab Spring, but the only country that may have benefited from it is Tunisia - Libya, Egypt, Syria are all worse off now than they were before. "...its imposition of the extreme Wahabi form of Islam on the entire population". This ignores the fact that there are significant numbers of Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia, particularly in the Eastern Province. |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 09:12:00 | David McLoughlin |
| Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 09:35:00 | Ken Munn |
| Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 12:42:00 | Colin Jordan |
| Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 13:04:00 | Richard Greenhough |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 14:00:00 | Cllr Sam Hearn |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 14:00:00 | Cllr Sam Hearn |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 14/10/15 14:10:00 | Richard Greenhough |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 14:53:00 | Janine Jarvis |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 15:54:00 | Claire Moran |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 16:21:00 | Colin Jordan |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 16:34:00 | Paul Wright |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 17:03:00 | Claire Moran |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 17:49:00 | Paul Wright |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 16/10/15 17:02:00 | Claire Moran |
| Times Article | 16/10/15 17:11:00 | Claire Moran |
| Re:Times Article | 16/10/15 17:48:00 | Paul Wright |
| Re:Re:Times Article | 16/10/15 19:43:00 | Claire Moran |
| Re:Re:Re:Times Article | 16/10/15 19:47:00 | Paul Wright |
| Appeasing Saudia Arabia | 17/10/15 10:44:00 | David McLoughlin |