Jamal Khashoggi - Here we see the hypocrisy inherent in the system

Jamal Khashoggi

To coin a phrase

Here we see the hypocrisy inherent in the system

An ex spy is murdered by the Russians in the UK and on very little public evidence the whole of Europe and the US made a unprecedented move in expelling over 160 diplomats.

"EU leaders agreed last week it was highly likely Russia was behind the nerve-agent poisoning."

So on a "highly likely" basis 160 diplomats are expelled.

The Saudi's however murder a journalist, possibly chop his body up to dispose of it and actually admit to killing him and the EU and the US does ....Er ......Nothing!

"Saudi Arabia has said that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at its consulate in Istanbul as part of a "rogue operation" by Saudi agents who had nothing to do with the powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."

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"It sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers," Mr Trump said, adding: "Who knows?"

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Really? A team is flown from Saudi using offiocial Saudi government transport including a pathologist to dismember the body and noone at the top knew about it?

Sorry dont believe it.

Nothing has so far been done with regard to Saudi Arabia. Why? .......Money.  Both the US and the UK sell arms to Saudi. Saudi also controls massive oil fields and can influence oil prices.

Saudi is also a big supporter or should I say promoter of Wahhabism an ultraconservative Islamic doctrine.  Wahhabi mosques are accused by some muslims of being the root of terrorist ideology in the UK but nothing is done about these mosques. Presumably because they are backed by Saudi Arabia.

Wahhabism has been accused of being "a source of global terrorism"

I asked a muslim aquaintence why they did nothing about these Wahhabi mosques that promote terrorist activity and he said "They are too powerful as they are backed by Saudi Arabi, it would take the Government to do anything"

As the Government hasnt done anything, like closing these mosques down, can we assume the Government is complicit in allowing Terrorist activity. Because it is scared of upsetting Saudi?

Is the UK and US governments complicit in the prolification of terrorism by doing nothing and carrying on supplying arms to a country that promotes such ideals?

What would be happening if Russia had done the same?

Trump also pointed to tens of billions of dollars in Saudi arms purchases from U.S. companies as a reason to not disrupt ties with Riyadh.

Here we see the hypocrisy inherent in the system.


LINKS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43545565
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45937448
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/month-khashoggi-killing-probe-progress-181102081631040.html 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/world/middleeast/with-saudi-prince-holding-on-to-power-us-seen-standing-by-him.html
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/15/weekend-presidential-briefing-saudi-vinograd-nr-vpx.cnn
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/30/recep-tayyip-erdogan-jamal-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia-protected
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jamal_Khashoggi 
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/25/middleeast/saudi-turkey-khashoggi-investigation-intl/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/turkish-president-erdogan-rejects-saudi-account-of-khashoggi-killing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46067959
http://uk.businessinsider.com/jamal-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia-hopes-world-will-forget-2018-10?r=US&IR=T
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-arabia-not-fully-cooperating-with-khashoggi-investigation-turkish-official-says/2018/10/31/804bfc2a-dc78-11e8-8bac-bfe01fcdc3a6_story.html?utm_term=.cfb41d9c88bb
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/01/trumps-saudis-keep-fumbling-after-khashoggis-killing/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d4700f736282