http://seenthis.net/tag/medicalcondition:deficiency 2013-05-18T09:37:26Z urn:uuid:508ea5e2-7984-4943-8a58-49382b412a60 Nidal (@nidal) http://seenthis.net/people/nidal nidal@seenthis.net 2012-08-05T15:18:40Z 2012-08-05T15:18:40Z

Concerning the Gulf: The Emirates Crackdown http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/6747/concerning-the-gulf_the-emirates-crackdown ❝Most recently, the Saudi authorities arrested the Qatif-based cleric Nimr al-Nimr, shooting him in the leg and killing several people during the operation in the village of al-Awwamiyya. Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz said that al-Nimr is “the spreader of sedition” and “a man of dubious scholarship and dubious mental condition, and the issues he raises and speaks about show a deficiency or imbalance of the mind.” In the Kingdom, to champion democracy is a mental illness. Al-Nimr is not alone. The authorities have arrested Ra’if Badawi, editor of Free Saudi Liberals, and activists such as Mohammed al-Shakouri of Qatif, the hotbed of unrest. The Saudis cleverly use blasphemy laws to hit the democracy activists hard. The activists are “those who have gone astray” [al-fi’at al-dhallah], and it is the truncheon that is tasked with bringing them back to their senses.❞

<div lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>Concerning the Gulf: The Emirates Crackdown<br /><span class='lien_lien' ><a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/6747/concerning-the-gulf_the-emirates-crackdown" class='spip_out' title="Concerning the Gulf: The Emirates Crackdown" hreflang="en"><span class='lien_court'><span class='lien_protocol'>http://</span><span class='lien_racine lien_raccourci'><span class='lien_host'><span class='lien_www'>www.</span>jadaliyya.com</span>/</span><span class='lien_off'>pages/</span><span class='lien_off'>index/</span><span class='lien_off'>6747/</span><span class='lien_fin'><span class='lien_fin_coupee'>concerning-the-gulf_the-emir</span><span class='lien_fin_cachee'>ates-crackdown</span></span></span></a></span></p><blockquote lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> Most recently, the Saudi authorities arrested the Qatif-based cleric Nimr al-Nimr, shooting him in the leg and killing several people during the operation in the village of al-Awwamiyya. Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz said that al-Nimr is “the spreader of sedition” and “a man of dubious scholarship and dubious mental condition, and the issues he raises and speaks about show a deficiency or imbalance of the mind.” In the Kingdom, to champion democracy is a mental illness. Al-Nimr is not alone. The authorities have arrested Ra'if Badawi, editor of Free Saudi Liberals, and activists such as Mohammed al-Shakouri of Qatif, the hotbed of unrest. The Saudis cleverly use blasphemy laws to hit the democracy activists hard. The activists are “those who have gone astray” [al-fi'at al-dhallah], and it is the truncheon that is tasked with bringing them back to their senses. </p></blockquote></div>