The other day I wrote a post criticizing Stephen Harper for negotiating a deal to sell armoured cars to Saudi Arabia, that includes a multi-billion dollar cancellation penalty. And I thought it was clear enough.Only to have the miserable Mound of Sou…
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Raif Badawi, and the Barbaric Practices of Saudi Arabia
He liked to portray himself as a champion of human rights, and the leader of the war against cultural barbaric practices. But Stephen Harper never lifted a finger to ask the barbaric regime in Saudi Arabia to stop savagely flogging the blogger Raif Badawi. Even though his family lives in Canada… Because he was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and his Ghastly Boyfriends in Saudi Arabia
In the latest chapter of the grotesque love story between Stephen Harper and the backward rulers of Saudi Arabia, today I have both good news and bad news.The good news is that the brutish flogging of the blogger Raif Badawi has been at least temporarily postponed. The case of a Saudi
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: As If You Needed Another Reason to Loathe Saudi Arabia.
From the House of Saud on down there’s a lot of rot in Saudi Arabia. Here’s a new one – divorce. In Saudi Arabia, it’s not necessary for the husband or the wife to sue for divorce. They can actually have it imposed on them. IN three months, 14 lawsuits
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