Sir: I write in regards to the media attention ISIS received when it lopped off the heads of a couple journalists.
The following information comes from the English satirical magazine Private Eye.
It was 21 months between the time James Foley was abducted in Syria and the barbarians beheaded him. President Obama described this atrocity as a “bankrupt ideology,” which “no just God would stand for.”
During those same 21 months, the government of Saudi Arabia beheaded 113 people. The same President Obama visited Saudi Arabia to, “underscore the importance of the bilateral relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia.” No mention of a “just God.”
The following information comes from various news organizations.
Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as the religious police, recently arrested 28 people for using a home as a church (churches are proscribed in Saudi Arabia). These people have not been heard from since.
Perhaps if the Canadian government is so concerned about barbarous acts of violence committed by conservative Islamic religious zealots that they are willing to send Canadian military personnel to the Middle East to combat these fanatics, they should possibly consider sending them to Saudi Arabia, which has an official policy of religious persecution of non-Muslims. Said persecution includes lashing with whips, prison and of course beheading.
Robert Hayes
Chatham
