Ups!
¿Comenzó el gran despegue occidental de las monarquías paleolíticas del Golfo?
En forma progresiva se van sumando las evidencias, ensayos, notas y denuncias
relativas a las normativas vigentes bajo el yugo de la realeza wahabita. La
nota que sigue, por ejemplo, es de hace un par de días y fue escrita por Michaela
Whitton para el sitio web theantimedia.org. Decime si te gusta:
Título: New
Eye-Opening Documentary Completely Exposes Barbaric Saudi Regime
Texto: A
British television crew recently filmed an undercover documentary in Saudi
Arabia in an attempt to penetrate the world’s most secretive and murderous
regime. Working with a team of undercover Saudi cameramen, the one hour eye-opener,
Exposure: Saudi Arabia Uncovered, was broadcast by ITV on March 22. It reveals
the hidden side of the regime, which buys billions of pounds worth of British
arms, accepts training from British security forces, sells oil back to the
U.K., and enjoys nothing less than red carpet treatment from the British royal
family.
After
setting up a fake company, the crew flew into Riyadh posing as businessmen,
wielding carefully concealed hidden cameras. For cover, they said they were in
the country to attend a business conference on cyber-security. What they
discovered was a state that beheads — and even crucifies — its citizens; where
women lack basic human rights and its children are indoctrinated. Patrolled by
religious police, citizens are tortured, imprisoned, and sentenced to death for
writing blogs and questioning authority. It sounds like the Islamic State, but
it’s not — it’s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And it is fully propped up by
Europe and the United States.
The
mind-boggling documentary reveals how Saudi Arabia’s money and Wahhabi ideology
has helped drive terrorism around the world. Shining a light on Britain’s
shoulder-rubbing with the ruling royals, the production has pushed the U.K.
government to admit they have provided more than 300 Saudi police officers with
training since 2012.
“A
necessary evil”
In
January 2015, the Union Jack flew at half-mast at Westminster as a mark of
respect for the death of Saudi ruler, King Abdullah. During the same month,
young Saudi blogger Raif Badawi received 50 lashes in public. Convicted of
insulting Islam after blogging about his government and religion, quoting
Albert Camus, he wrote:
“The only
way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very
existence is an act of rebellion.”
Comments
like this earned the father of three 1,000 total lashes and ten years in
prison.
“We don’t
approve of what Saudi Arabia does, we don’t like what they do, but they are a
necessary evil in combating other regimes,” former Head of International Terrorism,
Colonel Richard Kemp, told ITV.
“And of
course, ultimately they have a lot of oil,” he added.
Undercover
cameraman Yasser is from an underground network of Saudi activists. He risked
life and limb to provide a window into the brutal and secretive country where
the King is all powerful, journalists cannot operate without a minder, and
dissent is a cardinal sin. In the country, which is home of some of Islam’s
holiest sites, the Saudi state oil company is worth £7 trillion. The royal
family is worth billions. In contrast, an estimated quarter of the population
lives in poverty, and numerous women were filmed begging and being beaten in
the streets.
It is
estimated that only one in five Saudi women of working age are employed. They
are banned from driving and struggle to perform simple tasks, such as going to
the doctor without a male guardian. But some are fighting back, and prominent
human rights activist Loujain Hathloul has become the face of the Saudi women’s
rights movement.
Moments
after uploading videos of herself driving — as part of a campaign to change the
ban against it — the activist was arrested for trying to enter Saudi Arabia
from the United Arab Emirates while behind the wheel. Imprisoned for 73 days
without trial, she remains banned from traveling. Terrorism charges also were
filed against her. Facing persistent death threats towards her and her family,
for some she is a hero. For others, she is a hate figure.
The
Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
The
religious police, officially known as the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue
and Prevention of Vice, patrol streets and shopping malls enforcing strict
Islamic laws. Yasser films himself and his friend as they are violently stopped
from playing a lute outside. Playing music in public is forbidden, and their
instrument and hidden camera are smashed. In other instances, religious police
force women to cover themselves and drive people out of cafes to pray.
This
strict form of Sunni Islam is known as Wahhabism, and it is the religion on
which Saudi Arabia was founded. It is thought that the majority of Saudis
support the state ideology, and the activists film a preacher spreading hatred
of other religions and the Shia minority. Children are shown being indoctrinated
by school textbooks, made in Saudi Arabia and exported to the world.
“No
country is the perfect ally, perfect partner, without any reservations
whatsoever. Welcome to the real world, welcome to the premier league,” said
former CIA Director, General David Petraeus.
Director
of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, Ali al-Ahmed, said the Saudi education
system was created as a security measure to protect the ruling family and
mislead millions of students into hatred of other religions and cultures. Some
say the state has made progress in removing some of the worst examples of
hatred from its textbooks, but the books can still be found in mosques and
schools around the world.
Al-Ahmed
added, “It’s no wonder that thousands of Saudis joined ISIS and other terror
groups because they were trained in Saudi schools.”
“Chop
Chop Square”
In 2015,
Saudi Arabia executed 157 people. Traditional punishments are employed, and
executions are often carried out in public by one sword blow to the neck.
Headless bodies are sometimes displayed publicly, and the documentary shows
harrowing footage of a Burmese woman screaming for mercy as she is beheaded in
the street.
Yasser
says many Saudis are angry but cannot speak out due to fear of imprisonment,
adding that the regime relies on secrecy; criticism of the government is
considered an act of terror. The film crew visits one of Saudi Arabia’s most
notorious landmarks, known as Chop Chop Square. It is the scene of many of the
regime’s public executions and has drains in the ground for blood.
Since
9/11, Saudi Arabia has attempted to show the world they are tackling terrorism.
The regime has clamped down on private donations to extremists from inside the
Kingdom and carried out airstrikes against ISIS. They deny they are supporting
the terror group, but many feel it is the underlying Wahhabi Salafi ideology
that is the wider problem.
Former
Director of Political Islam of the CIA, Emile Nakleh told ITV:
“The
ideology of ISIS is not much different from the ideology that Wahabi Salafi
Islam in Saudi adheres to. Unless the Saudis deal with this issue, we are going
to constantly fight yesterday’s wars. Even if we defeat ISIS there will be
another terrorist organisation, perhaps with a different name, as long as they
have this ideology.”
Unwilling
to tolerate dissent and fiercely opposed to sharing power, Saudi Arabia
executed 47 people in January of this year — its largest mass execution since
1980. Some were convicted terrorists, but others were political activists.
Footage smuggled out by activists has revealed that the executions sparked the
largest public protests since the Arab Spring.
Since the
mass executions, Yasser has stopped filming undercover. He claims it is just
too risky continue, which, of course, is exactly what these public displays of
punishment are all about. Although activists are being forced underground, the
spread of mobile phones and cameras means it is becoming impossible for the
regime to control what the world sees.
While in
the country pretending to be traders, the filmmakers’ website was hacked,
leading them to believe their cover was blown. As a result, they promptly left
the country.
The
documentary ends with a statement from the Saudi authorities condemning the
covert filming by ITV:
“The
kingdom of Saudi Arabia utterly rejects the partisan nature and sensationalist
tone of this documentary which sets out to portray the country in a negative
and unbalanced light. The Kingdom’s legal system is based on the due process of
Islamic Sharia Law. The Kingdom is at the forefront of international efforts to
combat terrorism and will pursue anyone who supports and funds terrorist
activities. To suggest otherwise is a slur. In keeping with its biased agenda,
ITV chose to undertake covert filming when they could have applied for and
received a journalistic visa, like many of their counterparts.”
The full
documentary, Exposure: Saudi Arabia Uncovered, can be viewed here:
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