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Post by Totheleft on Mar 6, 2024 3:07:39 GMT
business and trade secretary, Kemi Badenoch, are increasingly pessimistic about the India deal and see a free-trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council as being within closer reach. Badenoch met trade ministers from all six GCC countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – in Abu Dhabi last week.
I'm sure this wouldn't impress Brexiteers
SAUDI ARABIA
engage in "systematic, ongoing, and egregious" violations of the rights of religious minorities.18
Saudi Arabia is a dynastic monarchy, The country?s constitution is the Koran and the Sunna (tradition) of the prophet Muhammad, and the country is thus governed by a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Because there are no democratic institutions, citizens have no role in the government. Security in the country is enforced by both a secular security force, and the Mutawwa'in, the religious police, who comprise the Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice. Because the traditional Islamic view of human rights does not coincide with the modern view, the government has allowed both the secular and religious security forces to commit serious abuses.
The Saudi government beheaded 52 people in 2003, for crimes including murder, robbery, drug smuggling, and homosexuality.
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 6, 2024 3:17:26 GMT
Treatment of Women
Women are the victims of systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia. Domestic violence and rape are widespread problems, and women have no redress for such crimes. Women cannot travel, be admitted to a hospital or drive in a car without their husbands? permission. Buses are segregated, and women must sit in the rear. Those women not wearing an abaya (a black garment covering the entire body) and covering their faces and hair are harassed by the Mutawwa'in.
Laws that discriminate against women include those governing property ownership, testimony in court inheritance, and child custody in cases of divorce. Comprising only five percent of the workplace, it is nearly impossible for women to be employed in any but the simplest of tasks. Also, Female Genital Mutilation is legal and is practiced in some parts of Saudi Arabia.
Women from foreign countries also must adhere to the strict laws in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. military has gone so faras to require its female soldiers to wear restrictive clothing, ride in the back seat of cars, and have a male escort when off base. In 2001, the U.S. Air Force's highest ranking female fighter pilot sued the U.S. government to overturn the policy on the grounds that it discriminates against women, violates their religious freedom, and forces them to follow customs required by a religion not their own. The Pentagon subsequently ended the requirement that women wear the black head-to-toe abayas worn by Saudi women, but the other restrictions still apply.
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 6, 2024 3:19:55 GMT
the Ministry of Interior. Additionally, at least one person was killed recently by the Mutawwa'in for a very minor religious violation. Other executions during the year 2000 were for crimes ranging from ?deviant sexual behavior? to sorcery, and were carried out by stoning, beheading, or firing squad; additionally, some prisoners were punished by amputations or the loss of an eye. Prisoners are sometimes held for long periods of time without charge or trial.
Freedom of speech and of the press are severely limited in Saudi Arabia ? criticizing Islam or the Royal family is illegal, and can result in prolonged imprisonment without trial. Television, radio, internet and literature are all heavily censored. Freedom of assembly and association are also limited, subject to regulations such as the segregation of men and women at meetings.
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Post by see2 on Mar 6, 2024 11:14:05 GMT
The sad reality is that this country has to take into consideration that the main criteria for government is the well being of this country. We can't change the practices of other countries, but we just might help to change their attitudes if we make our country a better example of how to treat their citizens.
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Post by Bentley on Mar 6, 2024 11:23:49 GMT
lol. Lefties whining about the UK doing business with Muslim countries and at the same time wanting to import Muslims by the thousands .
Virtue signalling at its finest.😁
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 6, 2024 12:10:08 GMT
lol. Lefties whining about the UK doing business with Muslim countries and at the same time wanting to import Muslims by the thousands . Virtue signalling at its finest.😁 Many Muslims in this Country follow are democratic laws. Don't forget Muslims have the Same ethnic and Values has Christians according to you lol Anyway is this what you voted in the Referendum? |
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Post by Bentley on Mar 6, 2024 12:15:52 GMT
lol. Lefties whining about the UK doing business with Muslim countries and at the same time wanting to import Muslims by the thousands . Virtue signalling at its finest.😁 Many Muslims in this Country follow are democratic laws. Don't forget Muslims have the Same ethnic and Values has Christians according to you lol Anyway is this what you voted in the Referendum? 1Muslim countries don’t tend to be good democracies 2 Muslim countries tend to be full of Muslims. 3. The inability to string a coherent sentence together doesn’t give you an excuse to lie on a forum doofus . 4 Is what ‘ what I voted in the referendum? |
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 6, 2024 12:17:53 GMT
lol. Lefties whining about the UK doing business with Muslim countries and at the same time wanting to import Muslims by the thousands . Virtue signalling at its finest.😁 And now he's learnt how to do polls, he'll inundate us with them. |
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Post by Bentley on Mar 6, 2024 12:20:18 GMT
lol. Lefties whining about the UK doing business with Muslim countries and at the same time wanting to import Muslims by the thousands . Virtue signalling at its finest.😁 And now he's learnt how to do polls, he'll inundate us with them. He has a Brexit fetish too 😁 |
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 6, 2024 12:29:53 GMT
And now he's learnt how to do polls, he'll inundate us with them. He has a Brexit fetish too 😁 LOL  |
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Post by witchfinder on Mar 6, 2024 12:33:44 GMT
Interesting fact that the worlds largest democracy also has the worlds 3rd largest number of Muslims.
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 6, 2024 12:35:01 GMT
Many Muslims in this Country follow are democratic laws. Don't forget Muslims have the Same ethnic and Values has Christians according to you lol Anyway is this what you voted in the Referendum? 1Muslim countries don’t tend to be good democracies 2 Muslim countries tend to be full of Muslims. 3. The inability to string a coherent sentence together doesn’t give you an excuse to lie on a forum doofus . 4 Is what ‘ what I voted in the referendum? Super trade deals with Islamic Countries That's fill of Undemocratic Muslims. I know you have lack of understanding has pointed out by other posters on this forum. I asked you if it was your age. memory loss. difficulty concentrating. finding it hard to carry out familiar daily tasks, such as getting confused over the correct change when shopping. struggling to follow a conversation or find the right word. being confused about time and place. mood changes. |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 6, 2024 12:37:58 GMT
lol. Lefties whining about the UK doing business with Muslim countries and at the same time wanting to import Muslims by the thousands . Virtue signalling at its finest.😁 And now he's learnt how to do polls, he'll inundate us with them. Maybe we should have a pole on how to put remainers out of their misery.. |
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Post by Bentley on Mar 6, 2024 12:40:56 GMT
1Muslim countries don’t tend to be good democracies 2 Muslim countries tend to be full of Muslims. 3. The inability to string a coherent sentence together doesn’t give you an excuse to lie on a forum doofus . 4 Is what ‘ what I voted in the referendum? Super trade deals with Islamic Countries That's fill of Undemocratic Muslims. I know you have lack of understanding has pointed out by other posters on this forum. I asked you if it was your age. memory loss. difficulty concentrating. finding it hard to carry out familiar daily tasks, such as getting confused over the correct change when shopping. struggling to follow a conversation or find the right word. being confused about time and place. mood changes. You are the one whining about trade desks with undemocratic Muslim countries and trying to connect it with Brexit . I mean it’s not as if EU countries trade with undemocratic countries is it ?Muslim or not. When your idiocy is pointed out , you resort to lies and word salads . Thats because you are a doofus ..😁 |
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 6, 2024 12:43:16 GMT
And now he's learnt how to do polls, he'll inundate us with them. He has a Brexit fetish too 😁 No fetish just don't like the Mess Brexit has Caused this once Great Country. Think I get my Union jack out Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never will be slaves. When Britain first, at heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian Angels sang this strain: (Chorus) The nations not so blest as thee Must, in their turn, to tyrants fall, While thou shalt flourish great and free: The dread and envy of them all. (Chorus) Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke, As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. (Chorus) Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame, But work their woe and thy renown. (Chorus) To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles, thine. (Chorus) The Muses, still with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coasts repair. Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned, And manly hearts to guard the fair. (Chorus) Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never will be slaves |
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