tweakabelle
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Joined: 10/16/2007 From: Sydney Australia Status: offline
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That celebrated bastion of human rights and freedom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has finally relented and given Saudi women the right to drive. This Kingdom has long resisted allowing women to drive with some clerics branding it the start of the long slippery slope to promiscuity and the downfall of the Kingdom's strict moral laws and sharia. While accepting this tiny move as being in the right direction, we might ask why Western countries are still allies of this monstrous regime, one of the world's worst human rights abusers? Why is the West selling SA tens of billions of arms every year? Why is the West silent about SA's appalling indiscriminate attacks in Yemen where SA's Western built jets and armaments have caused thousands of civilian deaths? Perhaps Saudi Arabia's best friend on these boards Bosco might answer these questions for us ...? Do others feel like me that we should ban armament sales to SA until it liberalises its society, recalls its military from external adventures in Yemen and other ME States, and begins to behave like a responsible member of the international community? Why is the West continuing to prop up savage regimes in the ME when we all know the long term consequences are disastrous?
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