Deera Square. Riyadh. Every Friday after lunch prayers, the holy Muslims gather to watch the weeks public beheadings. Our favorite Oil trading partners, Bin Salman (MBS) and his Al Saud family have been refining this political means for total control over a religiously subjugated majority for many centuries now. While Deera Square may be the Bernebau for beheadings, it is merely the best location, not the only one. Beheadings are legal anywhere the Mullahs decide. Even in embassies in Istanbul.

Although we have known about this barbarism for many centuries, in our approach to censure, nothing has changed. Expansion work on Kim Kardashian’s aureola is infinitely more interesting to our press than serial rape of helpless women, who are beheaded if they complain.

We elect leaders to placate these barbaric entitled killers. It is more important for our leaders to win lucrative arms-deals from them in exchange for oil contracts than comment on the rights and wrongs of their Sharia-law-lunacy.

We do love to trade with them. So much money in those oil for defense contracts. These Billionaire Sheikhs are able to buy major sports clubs in the west with very little control, or awareness of the ‘Sportswash.’ Clubs like Manchester City, where they can wallow in the love of an appreciative western society. Meanwhile we ensure our press normalizes their barbarism by not reporting even a wafer thin mint sized portion of their human rights misconduct. We have no interest in discussing the Kafala system, in which the poorest are contracted in situations where they are effectively, slaves.

Barely a mention of even the grotesque live execution and bone-saw dismemberment of a US resident (Kashoggi) in the Istanbul embassy by staff of MBS, using information given by our very own Lord Kushner.

Our favorite Muslims  kill at will and that has no prospect of changing while we are represented by their supporters. Deera square continues to do a roaring trade. The art of beheading is passed down by generation. Kids grow up training to be come ‘Beheaders’. Refining the skills for this career. The very best, who get the big gigs, can take a large womans head off clean with one stroke of their perfectly sharpened blade.

In Britain, the Royal Family invite their royals to royal occasions with all the respect of royalty. Its a thing between Royals. In America, our Royal Trumps invite them to buy whatever they want and afford them the honor of important trading partners.

Just look at the portfolio  of one high-profile Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns chunks of private and public companies in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East through Kingdom Holding Co., 5% of which is listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (he is listed as owning the other 95%). Holdings include stakes in ride-sharing firm Lyft, Twitter, Citigroup, hotel management company Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, the swanky Hotel George V in Paris and the Savoy Hotel in London. Outside of Kingdom Holding, the Prince owns real estate in Saudi Arabia, the majority of Arabic-language entertainment firm Rotana, and other assets.

Prince Alwaleed, also bought Donald Trump’s yacht in 1991, saving him from another likely bankruptcy.

But; there is a huge but. And it’s not on Mrs West. Don’t mention the barbarism. The misogyny. The iniquitous hoarding of obscene wealth by the .01%

Here’s just one story from 2018. How Tuti used Kafala system, to get into a work opportunity in Saudi.

Tuti was a low paid submissive woman, in the Kingdom to work, earning money to send home to her young child in his poverty encrusted life in Indonesia. Tuti Tursilawati was born in 1984. Contracted as a housekeeper in the Kingdom since 2009, she arrived as an attractive 25 year old, mother of one. With a pleasant smile.
Soon after, by her account, her employer, Suud Malhaq Al Utaibi rapes her.  Likely this has been going on for some time. Serial rape before eventually, in 2010, nine months after her arrival, she fights back.  She kills Suud Malhaq Al Utaibi in what she calls self defense, and then, fearing for the consequences she knows all to well as a woman in a Sharia country, she flees. In this process she meets a man who will help her get to Mecca. That turns into a gang rape by 9 men before Tuti is arrested for the murder of her employer, in the Saudi city of Ta’if.
In 2011 she was convicted for the murder of her employer Suud Malhaq Al Utaibi.
For the next 7 years she is held in confinement, where we can assume she was serially abused until in 2018 she was beheaded for her crime, in Ta’if. She was 34.

No mainstream Western media reports poor Tuti’s sad end.  But during this time reports of anal-bleaching bills by reality TV stars has made big money  news. Lets face it, no one wants to know about poor women being beheaded by Muslims.

Tuti Tursilawati was executed on Monday in the city of Taif, Indonesia’s foreign ministry said, seven years after she was sentenced to death for killing her employer in an act she claimed was self-defence from sexual abuse.
President Joko Widodo criticised the decision on Wednesday, saying the government has officially protested to Riyadh and demanded better protection of Indonesian workers in the country.

“The execution of Tuti Tursilawati was done without notification to our representatives, either in Riyadh or Jeddah,” he said at a news conference.

Tursilawati claimed she was acting in self-defence when she killed her employer in 2010 after he tried to rape her. Migrant Care, an NGO advocating for the rights of Indonesian workers abroad, condemned the execution and urged the government to take serious diplomatic steps. It said Indonesia should reverse its recent decision to allow a limited number of Indonesian migrant workers to Saudi Arabia despite a 2015 moratorium banning new domestic workers from entering 21 Middle Eastern countries.

Indonesia introduced the ban following the execution of two other Indonesian maids by Saudi Arabia the same year.

Punishable by death?

Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s version of Islamic law.

As well as the Middle East, Indonesia also sends domestic workers to many parts of Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and has often complained about the treatment of its workers abroad.  GCC countries have come under fire over its controversial Kafala system of sponsorship for migrant workers, which is used to varying extents in different countries across the region.

Kafala restricts most workers from moving to a new job before their contracts end unless they obtain their employer’s consent, trapping many workers in abusive situations.

International rights and labour groups have called for comprehensive laws to protect migrant labourers and reforming the kafala system. And according to Human Rights Watch several Gulf countries have slowly improved the labour protections for migrant domestic workers.

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Stories I have chosen to blog about since 2013.

How Tuti lost her head through the Kafala system. Beheadings in the Kingdom.

The 27 club, Trump and Juice Wrld. Young son of a single Christian mum takes cough medicine, makes a rap song on his iPhone, hires a private plane and dies at 21.

The Greensboro massacre – talking bout China Grove. Awful Racism Klan story from the US in 1979

Slavery. A brief overview of legal slavery in 2019 The 13th amendment. Where prisoners can be slaves to prison owners, selling their labor for profit.

Inherent racism and lynching. American racism. Some 5,000 people lynched. Strange fruit.

#theAXAINSURANCE and ME. I had Home insurance with the AXA Insurance for 27 years. My house flooded. And look at what happened next.

Athens, Antiparochi, Turkey, Syria, Hevrin and the blundering dolt. The horrible death of Kurdish leader, Hevrin Shalaf. Contrasted with the development of Athens

MBS, Trump, Pegasus and Khashoggi. Bin Salman and hacking and Kashoggi

False news. How to tell FACTS from OPINIONS and why uppercase matters

Anniversary of 911. 18 years later. Musing on 911

What is appropriate etiquette between Liberals writing? Repubs stick together. United at all costs. Liberals do not.

Trump and Churchill. Comparing Great Leadership qualities

Captain Silas Soule and Minister John Chivington. Memorial day. Great Americans of Yore

Kaveh Golestan. My friend for many years. A human great.

About “The Emergency Bouzouki Player.” My lovely first book about PTSD

My cousin George and the medals. How I was given my fathers WW2 medals

Facts and opinions. A Brexit story

Christians for Trump. More Trump Clan fun

M A W A. Make America Write Again. My solution to most of what ails the USA

Werner Schmitzenkopf’s letter to the POTUS.  More Trump satire

Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?  More Trump satire

Play that funky music white boy. Advocating for women

How to stay healthy. In the era of Trump derangement syndrome

Emanuel Sampson. Black on White Christian. Confused Black culture adopting religion.

My first Formula one race. I grew up near Kyalami – home of F1 Grand Prix in Africa

Willie and Trigger. Willie Nelsons astonishing guitar, A Martin made acoustic nylon he calls Trigger.

The Tulsa massacre of 1921. American racism history

All of my Love. Karac’s song. Led Zeppelins final tour ended with this tragedy

The Menu Bombings. Because it’s not taught in Trumps American schools.

Brexit and Greece and the resistance that froze fascism. WW2 leaves a shadow on Brexit

Wallace the dogs blog. My mini Schnauzer Wallace was pure K9 legend.

Gee, thanks mom and dad. Good job. Brexit musing for the next generation

30 years on the 3rd of July. Iran Air Flt 655. Shot down by the USA. Many dead.

Educated fools. Some graduates are not smart

USS Liberty. 8 June, 1967.  Israel attacking the US in 67

Sexual frustration, poor parenting and gun celebrity. Why kids spree kill

King of Clubs 1985. One final gig I did before leaving South Africa

Sophie and Johann. Sophie Scholl. A great German Lass, died in 1943

Student protest Comparing SA in 1976 to today’s student protests

Aktion T4 and Babi Yar. WW2 History worth remembering

Browning 1910 FN. My first gun and how I used it

My #metoo moment. A humorous aside to gender discrimination in #metoo

George Lincoln Rockwell. American Nazi history

Call that Fake news? My Sun Story. When I got paid by Rupert Murdoch for creating false news.

Hubert Lanz. Devout Catholic. Mass murderer. Nazi Catholics were the best Nazi’s

Distomou. 10 June, 1944 Where I learned what an Ossuary really is

When Wallace was kidnapped. My dog was kidnapped by Pikeys

Bad business on the way to Blechhammer. A famous WW2 picture explained

If you support Trump I know 10 things about you Trump fun

Sniper babe, Roza Shanina. WW2 Russian military story

British sale of African goods to America, Slavery and the British

Palace Vs Sunderland. When I was invited to bring my son, 4,  to his first football game. By Ian Holloway.

Love choices of fascist racist demagogues. Mussolini, Hitler and Trumps partner choices.

Mao decides to ‘Make China Great Again.” Important man in World History. Mao Zedong

Visitation disputes. When acrimonious separations get worse

Bryanston High School Hair Policy, 40 years later. My former school in the news 40 years later

Alexander Marinesko. Hero. Russian submariner who could have caused disaster

Guantanemo Bay Living Memorial (GBLM.) My idea for the criminals of Iraq’s destruction

Paragraph 175. Nazis and gay people.

Crash memorial. UTA Flight 772. French families memorialize their dead in the desert.

Call that flu. The Spanish flu. 19 million dead in 1919

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