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Amazon restricts LGBT goods in United Arab Emirates

Online retail giant Amazon has restricted search results related to LGBT people and issues on its website in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The firm took the step after reportedly coming under pressure from authorities in the Gulf state.

Same-sex sexual relations are illegal in the UAE. Expressing support for LGBT rights could also be deemed an offence.
The news comes as Pride month, which is dedicated to celebrating LGBT people around the world, comes to a close.

"As a company, we remain committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we believe that the rights of LGBTQ+ people must be protected," an Amazon spokesperson told the BBC.
"With Amazon stores around the world, we must also comply with the local laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate," they added.
The company made the decision to restrict the searches after being threatened with penalties by the UAE government, according to the New York Times, which first reported the story.

The UAE embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.
Earlier this month, the Kuwait foreign ministry said it had summoned a top US diplomat in protest over tweets from the American embassy supporting LGBT rights.
US officials there had posted a rainbow flag and message of solidarity from President Joe Biden for Pride month.
Kuwait officials criticised the embassy for "supporting homosexuality" and demanded it didn't happen again.
Rights for LGBT people are severely restricted in Kuwait and it is illegal there for men to be gay.

Also this month, authorities in Saudi Arabia seized rainbow-coloured toys and children's clothing, which they claim encourage homosexuality, state TV said.
An Al-Ekhbariya report showed commerce ministry officials removing a range of items from shops in the capital Riyadh.
They included hair clips, pop-its, t-shirts, hats and pencil cases.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61991140
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Report: Saudi Forces Arrest Activists, Critics in Shia-Populated Eastern Province

TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi forces arrested a number of people in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, as the kingdom intensifies a heavy-handed crackdown against critics of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) and his policies.

Opposition sources said Saudi forces have lately launched a frantic campaign in Qatif, Al-Ahsa, and Dammam regions, detaining local residents without a warrant and prior notice, Al-Ahed news website reported on Monday.

The sources, who asked not to be named, added that Saudi forces have arrested Sareh Al-Ali, a resident of Dammam, in Al-Ahsa, after having detained religious scholar Sheikh Abdul Majeed bin Haji Al-Ahmad, two young Shia men identified as Hussein Rajab and Hussein Al-Mutawa, and social media activist Musa Ali Al-Khunaizi.

According to the opposition sources, the common criterion in the arrests is that those detained used to publish posts critical of bin Salman’s policies and those of the House of Saud on social media platforms.

The sources noted that the detainees are being held incommunicado and are deprived of communication with their families.

Ever since MbS became Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader in 2017, the kingdom has ramped up arrests of activists, bloggers, intellectuals, and others perceived as political opponents, showing almost zero tolerance for dissent even in the face of international condemnations.

Muslim scholars have been executed and women’s rights campaigners have been put behind bars and tortured as freedoms of expression, association, and belief continue to be denied.

The kingdom’s crackdown on peaceful dissent has particularly targeted writers and human rights campaigners in Eastern Province.

The province has been the scene of peaceful demonstrations since February 2011. Protesters have been demanding reforms, freedom of expression, the release of political prisoners, and an end to economic and religious discrimination against the region.

Over the past years, Riyadh has also redefined its anti-terrorism laws to target activism.

In January 2016, Saudi authorities executed Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr, who was an outspoken critic of the Riyadh regime. Nimr had been arrested in Qatif in 2012.
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Ex-Saudi spy calls MBS ‘psychopath,’ threat to the US ahead of Biden visit

​A former Saudi spymaster described Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who the US says sent a hit squad to kill and dismember Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, as a “psychopath” whose immense wealth makes him a threat to the United States and other countries around the world — as President Biden prepares for a much-anticipated meeting with the monarch later this week.

Saad Aljabri, once the number two official in Saudi intelligence, said the crown prince runs a vicious gang of mercenaries called the “Tiger Squad” that he uses to carry out kidnappings and killings, including the murder of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
“I am here to sound the alarm about a psychopath, killer, in the Middle East with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the Americans and to the planet​,” Aljabri told CBS News’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday.
“A psychopath?” host Scott Pelley asked. ​
“A psychopath with no empathy, doesn’t feel emotion, never learned from his experience. And we have witnessed atrocities and crimes committed by this killer​,” Aljabri elaborated.

Aljabri was a top adviser to Mohammed bin Nayef, the nephew of King Salman bin Abdulazi​z​ Al Saud. But MBS removed Nayef as the heir to the Saudi throne in a 2017 palace purge.
By then, Aljabri, fearing for his life, had already left the country and after the coup fled to Canada, where he lives in exile.
On the day of the coup, Aljabri said, two of his children were put in Saudi prisons. Since then, his son-in-law was kidnapped from a third country and returned to the kingdom, where he was tortured.
He added that days before Khashoggi’s killing was revealed, he received a tip from a friend in a Middle Eastern intelligence service that a hit squad was headed to Canada to find him.
“And the warning I received [was,] ‘Don’t be in a proximity of any Saudi mission in Canada. Don’t go to the consulate. Don’t go to the embassy.’ I said why? [They] said, ‘They dismembered the guy, they kill him. You are on the top of the list​,'” Aljabri told Pelley.
In the event, Aljabri went on, the six-person hit squad lied to customs officials at the airport in Ottawa and were deported.​​

Aljabri went on to claim that MBS fears him because he has information about his intent to kill then-King Abdullah, who died in 2015.
According to Aljabri, bin Salman told Nayef in 2014 of his intent to kill the sitting king to clear the way for his own father, the present King Salman, to take the throne.
“And he told him, ‘I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It’s enough for me just to shake hand with him and he will be done,'” Aljabri told “60 Minutes.”

The revelations come on the eve of Biden’s ​trip to Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia — a visit that has sparked criticism over his intention to meet with MBS even after then-candidate Biden vowed to treat the Saudi government as a “pariah” after Khashoggi’s killing.

Biden defended the visit in a Washington Post op-ed over the weekend, arguing that he would seek the Saudis’ help to bring down record-high gas prices and promote peace in the region.

“I know that there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to Saudi Arabia,” wrote Biden, who departs for the trip on Tuesday.
“My views on human rights are clear and long-standing, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when I travel abroad, as they will be during this trip, just as they will be in Israel and the West Bank.”

The Saudi Embassy in Washington responded to “60 Minutes” by calling Aljabri a “discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed, which amount to billions of dollars, to furnish a lavish lifestyle for himself and his family.”

But former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell vouched for the onetime Saudi spy, saying information he provided saved the lives of many Americans.
“Dr. Saad absolutely saved American lives. He saved Saudi lives, many of them, and he saved American lives,” Morell told “60 Minutes.”

​Pelley asked Aljabri if he had stolen $500 million from the Saudi counterterrorism budget, as the royal family has alleged in lawsuits ​filed in the US and Canada. ​

Aljabri denied taking the money, saying that his wealth came from the generosity of the Saudi royal family.​

“I have served a royal monarchy in a close proximity for two decades,” he said. “Three kings, four crown princes. They’ve been nice to me. They’ve been very generous. It’s a tradition in Saudi Arabia royal family. They take care of people around them​.”

Morell said he doesn’t know if the royals’ allegations about Aljabri are true. ​
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t because he’s such an honorable man. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if he was,” he said. “Because everybody to some extent had their hand in the kitty. And King Abdullah allowed it, permitted it​.”
https://nypost.com/2022/07/11/ex-saudi- ... den-visit/
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Arabieren deugen niet. Net zoals de rest van de wereld. Maar dan véél erger.

Arabieren die bijna stuk voor stuk mohammedaan (vies woord voor moslim) zijn, zouden om die reden van onze beschaving afgesloten moeten zijn. Je wilt behoren tot onze beschaving, of je wilt het niet. Zo simpel.

Maar . . .

POLITIEK IS ONBETROUWBAAR SMERIG.
Beerput
De beerput was in vroegere tijden een kelder of verzamelput voor menselijke uitwerpselen en werd achter de huizen aangelegd. Daarnaast werden de putten als vuilnisbak gebruikt: maaltijdresten, gebroken serviesgoed, glas, tuinafval, kapotte huisraad en andere vuilnis werd tijdens archeologische opgravingen aangetroffen. De beerput was gewoonlijk vrij diep, in ieder geval een meter of meer onder de grondwaterspiegel, om te vermijden dat de stank duidelijk zou zijn.
Ik weet niks met zekerheid. Ik ben ontoerekeningsvatbaar gelovig atheïst wegens gebrek aan de vrije wil.
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de Saudische kroonprins Mohammed Bin Salman hoopt de Cheops van Arabië te worden.
https://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/ ... ~bda41a9c/

Hier is een video van zijn megalomane droom.
Het ziende denk ik: "hoeveel slaven zijn er nodig om dit op te bouwen en bovenal te onderhouden?
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Ziet er goed uit. Maar of men dit project ooit zal maken?
The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.
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Er is overeenstemming bereikt met Iran. Door bemiddeling van de Chinezen !
De Arabieren zien wat er met de Oekraïne gebeurt en vrezen als trouwe bondgenood van de USA om in eenzelfde rol geduwd te worden tegenover Iran.
De USA zal wel nadenken over een regime change dus moet de krooprins oppassen voor een paleisrevolutie.
Volgens een mededeling in de resp. staatsmedia hebben Iran en Saoedi-Arabië afgesproken hun relaties te herstellen en hun ambassades te heropenen binnen de twee maanden.

De gesprekken vonden plaats in Beijing van 6 tot 10 maart tussen Ali Shamkhani (Iraanse nationale veiligheidsraad) en Saoedisch minister Musaed bin Muhammad al-Aiban.



De video toont de mededeling op het Iraanse Nour News-kanaal dat bevestigde dat er binnenkort afspraken zullen gemaakt worden over de uitwisseling van ambassadeurs.



Het Saudi Press Agency bevestigde het akkoord en publiceerde de gemeenschappelijke verklaring van Saoed-Arabië en Iran, waarin beide landen overeen kwamen “elkaars soevereiniteit te zullen respecteren en zich niet te zullen bemoeien in elkaars binnenlandse zaken.” Bovendien betoonden beide landen dank aan de Iraakse regering en de sultan van Oman voor de dialoogrondes die tijdens de jaren 2021 en 2022 gehouden werden om uiteindelijk tot dit resultaat te komen. En daar werd nog een dikke merci aan toegevoegd aan de inzet van de gastheer en supporter, de Chinese regering, die uiteindelijk tot dit succes leidde.

Gravitas heeft het zelfs over een diplomatische coup die China bewerkstelligd heeft. Klik op bruggetje (insluiten is niet mogelijk): https://www.youtube.com/live/uVMSfq7CYBM?feature=share

Dat het herstel van de Iraanse-Saoedische relaties een niet te onderschatten impact op de situatie in het M.O. zou kunnen hebben is voor iedereen duidelijk: voor de situatie in Syrië, in Jemen en zeker ook in Libanon. Al zal een bepaald land in het M.O. en Big Brother over de Atlantische Oceaan niet bepaald staan te juichen.

Als dit het resultaat is van de Chinese diplomatie, zouden we het vredesplan voor Oekraïne best niet verticaal klasseren.
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