Nimr’s Execution Will Bring About Saudi Undoing

Date: 03 January 2016 - 22:12

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The world community continues to condemn Saudi Arabia over executing 47 people for alleged terrorism, including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
claims most of those executed on Saturday, January 2, were involved in a series of attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda from 2003-06. However, it also detained hundreds of members of its Shia community after pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011-13. Several of those held had been sentenced to death, including Sheikh Nimr. Saudi grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh has described the executions as just, which is bizarre!
This is while the 2011-13 pro-democracy demonstrations were peaceful. Those who took part and later were arrested and executed, including Sheikh Nimr, were not involved in terrorism activities. Sheikh Nimr was publicly criticising the House of Saud and calling for elections. He, however, never called for violence.
The world community has done the right thing to condemn the executions. The problem is that the EU, like the rest of Global West, is not totally blameless for what is going on in the Persian Gulf state. The Saudi monarchy is but an extension of U.S.-Zionist will in the region, and as such its anti-Shia, anti-democracy campaign has been but an expression of Riyadh’s Wahhabi legacy.
Back in 2011 when the wave of Islamic Awakening began to spread, it was the United States, Saudi Arabia and the mere extras that sent troops to Bahrain to crush the protesters. The West is part of the ongoing tyranny, has contributed to it, laboured to defeat the opposition, and cooperated with Riyadh when their interests intersected.
Despite global outcry, the U.S. and UK have established naval bases in the Persian Gulf, transforming it into a main base for foreign military presence and aggression. It’s a reward to the silence they provide on human rights abuses, and for their continued support of the tyrannical regime.
Which is why the people of Arabia can and should press ahead with their peaceful drive to regain their democratic rights and to keep on holding demonstrations to realize their demands. They can and should struggle against the rule of the un-elected Saudi monarchy. It’s the only way to reclaim their most basic, inalienable and inherent right - political self-determination.
As maintained by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Sheikh Nimr was innocent and his execution was a political mistake. Without a doubt, the unlawfully shed blood of this innocent martyr will have a rapid effect and the divine vengeance will befall Saudi politicians.