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> Every dollar returned to the House of Saud allows a regime that would've been considered repressive two centuries ago to continue repressing women, homosexual

> Every dollar returned to the House of Saud allows a regime that would've been considered repressive two centuries ago to continue repressing women, homosexuals, foreign workers, non-Muslims, etc. Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime. While Shia are the ones who suffer repressions by Saudi analogue of Stasi nearly all the time, the repression, domestic espionage, and political inquisition against Sunni populace is their primary activity. Regular Saudis fear talking about Sauds even in their own homes. I studied in Vancouver along tons of Saudi students picked among children of state employees, and ones given the "loyalty exam" to score their passport. Even among such hand-picked selection, people said nobody in the kingdom can speak about the king without chills running their spine. Were they having an option, they would've stayed in Canada.

KDJohnBrown 6y ago
> Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime. Considering KSA’s funding of terrorists, I would say Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis and especially Yemenis suffer an order of magnitude more than Saudi citizens. The millions of Philipino, Malaysian, Indian and Pakistani slaves in Saudi Arabia aren’t exactly thriving either.
- baybal2 6y ago
  Indeed, I believe there is now not a single Arab country in which KSA did not try to stage something at some time. From staging coups, to financing armed insurgency, to economic warfare, to an outright invasion.
  - KDJohnBrown 6y ago
    To be fair, there are few which have mot suffered the same fate from the British Empire or USA either. This is probably why KSA has never faced any punishment from western powers, they are members of the club.

KDJohnBrown 6y ago

> Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime. Considering KSA’s funding of terrorists, I would say Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis and especially Yemenis suffer an order of magnitude more than Saudi citizens. The millions of Philipino, Malaysian, Indian and Pakistani slaves in Saudi Arabia aren’t exactly thriving either.

baybal2 6y ago
Indeed, I believe there is now not a single Arab country in which KSA did not try to stage something at some time. From staging coups, to financing armed insurgency, to economic warfare, to an outright invasion.
- KDJohnBrown 6y ago
  To be fair, there are few which have mot suffered the same fate from the British Empire or USA either. This is probably why KSA has never faced any punishment from western powers, they are members of the club.