This morning The Calgary Herald published a column by Licia Corbella, entitled “Family of jailed Saudi blogger angry over Trudeau”. In it Corbella criticized government’s twitter diplomacy efforts in the Raif Badawi case, directly quoting members of the man’s family. As you will note by clicking through the link above,
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Montreal Simon: The Day Saudi Arabia Declared War on Canada
I was relaxing in the little park next to the marine police station, on the last day of a long sweltering weekend, when Callum came running up with the shocking news.Mohammed bin Salman aka MBS, the perfumed crown prince of the barbaric Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, had declared war on Canada
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Devil Canada Has Made A Deal With
Although it generated some heated discussion during the election campaign, don’t expect the $15 billion armoured vehicle deal the Harper government signed with human-rights-hater Saudi Arabia to be rescinded now that a new government is about to be sworn in. Because the country is seen as a stabilizing presence in
Continue readingMontreal 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: Raif Badawi: Saudi Court Upholds Brutal Sentence of Liberal Blogger
I don't expect much, or anything really, from the barbaric kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The home of the beheaders, and the nexus of terrorism.But even by its brutish standards this is outrageous. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Barbarism of Saudi Arabia and the Grotesque Hypocrisy of Stephen Harper
There couldn't be a more hypocritical or nauseating spectacle, the old king of the brutish terrorist kingdom of Saudi Arabia dies.And western leaders fall over themselves praising him. With Britain's David Cameron even ordering that flags be flown at half-mast. While our disgusting Prime Minister Stephen Harper blubbers sympathetically. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia, and the Hypocrisy of the Harper Regime
A few days ago I wrote a post pointing out that our ghastly regime had failed to say a word about Saudi Arabia's savage flogging of the blogger Raif Badawi.After signing a deal with that reactionary kingdom to sell it $10 billion worth of armoured cars.Well now Harper's faithful stooge John Baird
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Raif Badawi and the Shameful Silence of the Harper Cons
Yesterday I wrote a post denouncing the Harper regime for its refusal to protest the savage punishment the Saudis are inflicting on the blogger Raif Badawi.For the price of $10 billion dollars worth of armoured cars.But what I didn't know at the time is that Badawi's family lives in Quebec,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Saudi Blogger Floggers
Yesterday he declared that an "international jihadist movement" had declared war on Canada.And claimed that only he could save us.But who will save us from his good friends the Saudis? The beating heart of the jihadist movement.Who would flog a blogger so savagely. Read more »
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