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Don’t worry guys, these are the good headhackers, not the bad ones.
Oh ok
So they just fund the bad ones !
Well done, we should take a leaf out of their book. One thing for sure .. he won’t be out in 5 years time to kill again.
America’s legitimate Head Hacking Bed Buddy.
They have no right to dictate to Syria or Iran on Democracy until they sort out their own house first.
The term “Start as you mean to go on” has just taken a sinister new meaning !
@Tony, whatever problems our legal system may have, please don’t ever wish it was more like Saudi Arabia’s brutal sham.
Tony Cox you’re assuming he was guilty
Nice comment Glen.
Don’t forget in Saudi Arabia you cannot build a church yet they fund the construction of mosques around the globe. They paid for the mosque in Clonskeagh.
If you have lots of money and oil you can do what you like
If you are not a part of their “club” they will overthrow your government and rob your oil and money..
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Going to see lots of hypocrisy in the comments for this. Remember the dog found burnt outside the Curragh and how people were saying that the perpetrators deserved the same. Those very same people will now be calling the Saudis savages. I’m not condoning the beheading just want to see some consistency in people’s moaning.
Yes but we wouldn’t really cook a person alive. People say things when they are upset (which we justifiably were, we love our pets here) but we would be more than happy to see the perpetrator of that disgusting crime receive a very hefty prison sentence.
Nope. I think people meant it.
Meanwhile, Texas has indicated that it intends to execute at least twelve more people this year.
@ Neal Ireland Hello……….Got ONLY ONE problem with the death penalty the authorities get it wrong so many times, at least if the perp in in jail and they find out they made a mistake, they can be released, if you are dead thats it!!!
It is rather “funny” there is never a boycot products from these countries protest, I suppose we all need Oil and cheap toys and tools from China etc
In America at least they use humane chemicals that gradually shut down the vital organs causing an immensely painful and slow death…The brutal Saudis just hack the head off in an instant. But America are the goodies so it’s all fine.
When IS do it the West condemns them as murderous savages, when the Saudis do it the West sells them more arms. I’m Irish, what happens if I behead someone?
“he’d take the head off ya” in Ireland just means someone’s cranky.
Foreigners are far too literal for my liking.
Think you may discovered the problem – Mohammed was actually a lad from Kiltimagh, and the lads in the desert are just taking him far too literally. When he said he’d kill for a caliphate, he meant it with the same sincerity as his previous statements that he’d kill for a pint of a porter (omitted from the quaran). He never said dancing, or certain haircuts, were haram, he said they looked hanging, but the Middle Easterns couldn’t decipher his Mayo accent. Similarly, all this jihad was a misunderstanding of Mohammed Murphy complaining about “that lad”. Fecking Mayo lads, causing trouble and starting murderous religions everywhere they bloody go.
I’m against the death penalty however its carried out, but even I can see that there’s a huge difference between executing a convicted murderer and executing a completely innocent person like an aid worker or journalist.
How about executing a convicted sorcerer? One of Islam’s equivalent of the deadly sins is sorcery, and is a fairly common crime which attracts the death penalty in Saudi.
Ah the kiltimagh jihadi sect they’re a dangerous bunch alright they’ll stale da milk outta yer tae and come back for the suger
I reckon mohammed came from ballyhaunis, lots of muslims still there
Egg so what your saying is if they stop executing people then America will stop selling them arms .
If a person had 197 previous convictions for serious crime in this country,
They’d get yet another suspended sentence…..
Way too soft on serious crime in Ireland…
Spare the rod and spoil the criminal….
Are you actually arguing in favour of the Saudi criminal justice system? Don’t get me wrong, shoplifting does annoy me, and I understand that the additional security and stock costs caused by shoplifting is passed on to people like me, but would I call for someone to have their hand removed, and not surgically, for nicking a Mars bar? I’d still have to say that is probably excessive and me paying an extra 5c for that Mars bar is probably a more reasonable approach. If you disagree however, vote SF – they have a more Saudi approach to crime and punishment.
Egg Head. I have zero problem with both capital and corporal punishment. For Murder, Rape, Child Abuse and Drug Dealing then Capital Punishment is appropriate. For lesser crimes where the felon has had. Numerous convictions such as shoplifting public flogging would be the order of the day.
Our Judicial system is broken. It is not fit for purpose. Spend a day sitting in the district court and watch as people with tens and even hundreds of previous convictions walk out of court with a suspended sentence or the Probation Act. There is very little deterrent in today system.
You may have zero problem with the death penalty Mick, but you’re in the minority in this country. And what level of drug dealing should attract death btw? The lad just feeding his habit through selling to mates, or people supplying drugs on a grander scale, like a publican for example?
And you don’t judge the effectiveness of a criminal justice system in courtrooms, you judge it on the streets. While we could certainly improve our streets, all in all we are a relatively peaceful and safe society compared to the rest of the western world, so our criminal justice appears to be outperforming the more punishment focused systems of the UK or US.
@ Egg Head,, I think may may be in a minority for the very reason I mentioned previously, the authorities get it wrong so many times!!!
I also think that our society is relatively safe and peaceful isn’t down to the justice system, it has much more to do with most of our people being law abiding peaceful people who on the whole still will look out for one another.
Contrary to popular opinion there is (still) a very good neighborly spirit within the country, and for some reason the powers that be want to change that.
Also there in also a sense of entitlement amongst a sizable section of our people, every one now knows their rights but few know or care about their responsibilities.
Mick you would think that a country such as Saudi Arabia or even the USA which has the death penalty would have no prisoners to execute after all it must be a brilliant deterrent?
Where are all the ‘new faces’ from the comments on Friday’s journal who claimed that all the ROP wanted to do was hand out cups of tea? Will they have the impertinence to try to justify this further demonstration of the savagery that lies behind their cult? The recent beheading of a women in the open street took 3 attempts while the new ‘King’ supervised and then Obama dropped in to give him a big hug.
That was particularly nasty. she was held down screaming till the first of three blows silenced her.
You guys seriously need to get a new hobby.
Link?
@Charles Rex, indeed and these weirdos won’t even shake the hand of a woman yet think nothing of chopping of a girls head in the street. Just reading now that the savages have the names of 3 Swedes on their hit list for some perceived outrage against their ideology, a Women’s rights activist,a diplomat and an artist. Sweden is about to have it’s own ‘Charlie Hendo’ episode.
Hebdo, of course.
The killing of the children on a beach in Gaza , the torturing of people in Gaza the beheading of the Digby soldier anything you care to mention that involves the unnecessary murder of civilians – for armies have extended their remit over the years to include civilians as fair game is what needs criticising – not people who make tea – regardless of their tribe or religion.
If soldiers and politicians want to include civilians then they create terrorists – Tit for Tat..
To criticise this beheading is also to criticise the capital punishment in America and elsewhere – the jury is more hung on that issue – rather than innocent civilians getting killed – To the army and politicians it is acceptable losses to civilians – all of it is terrorism !
@ Charles Rex……had a look at it, the sooner them baskets run out of oil the better, watching them you would think they were helping someone who had been injured until you see the fat one find of lining up his target all surrounded by fat overweight men! It seems that goes on almost every week after friday prayers to “allah” they remind me of the Incas except they existed 500 years ago, but then these people are still in the 9th century! with OIL
And almost TOTAL silence from the west, we lower flags on government buildings, all because they have OIL !!!!!
The death penalty, regardless of how it is administered, (beheadings or lethal injections) is the sign of thoroughly cruel and uncivilised society.
Anyone that thinks these beheading are a good idea should see one on the web. They are barbaric & says how much more disturbed the people who inflict this punishment are than any murderer rapist or paedophile could ever be.
Punishing murder with even more brutal murder – perfectly logical and not at all hypocritical.
They should use the Irish system of giving murderers suspended sentences
Not so much a cult, it is the law of the land which says that murder is covered by the death penalty.
In NYC a man attacked Cops with a Machette. He plead guilty, sued the city, they settled and paid him 5k. Hows that for a broken system.
Until the death penalty is abolished in the states Obama can’t say anything, mind you, I’d bet Saudi Arabia has a lower crime rate then Ireland, that skumbag who abused his daughter who had his sentence increased would be the first in line for a beheading with a rusty knife
Misogynistic uncivilised barbaric savages…Replace Misogyny with Racism (or include) when dealing with the US. All judicial killings are just revenge murders and typical of an uneducated society and their governments should be ostracised but our grubby corrupt so called western societies are bribed into a policy of inclusion on the pretext that integration will change their outlook towards state violence, which is a lie as these countries, like China, work their citizens even harder to keep up with cut price orders coming from the west to line the pockets of a select few.
It’s the way of Islam soon to be the 2nd biggest religion in Ireland fun times ahead for you all.
They’ll not be murdering anybody else now will they.
A swift clean cut is nasty to look at but it’s quick & painless .. Anyone ever hear when Queen Anne of England was beheaded , the executioner out of love & respect ,right before she lay her head on the chopping board .. He called “boy fetch me my sword “, when the queen looked the opposite direction to see the sword , the executioner had the sword hidden at he’s feet & took her head with one clean slice from behind , she never seen it , heard it or felt it !!
King Charles the First was the last English monarch to have his head chopped off…..thanks to Oliver Cromwell and his chums.
If I was ISIS I’d ask for catalogs from BAE systems and Lockheed, nothing gets rid of western condemnation like highly profitable arms contacts or the promise of highly profitable arms contracts.
Punishment fits the crime!
Allahu akbar! The creater is so good He will take pleasure in decapitations
I don’t really care , the guys a murderer !!
Interesting use of Obama in the photo about an article criticising the death penalty. Beheading is over considerably faster and more painlessly than those botched executions in the US. So if beheadings are against human rights, the the death penalty over there ought to be.
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