Saudi Club Med for Jihadis Only

Saudi Arabia is no softie when it comes to ‘crime fighting’ so why I ask would it decide now is the time to take the kinder, gentler approach to punishment? I mean, this is a country that still believesin the good ole death penalty via stoning, hanging and/or firing squad. It’s a bizarrely warped place where raped women must fear being punished as adulterers and face stoning death rather than receiving accurate recognition as VICTIMS and treated rightfully to needed medical care while being assured the justice system will punish their attackers. Nah, that’s not how things work in Saudi Arabia.Victims are punished and criminals – at least criminals in the eyes of most logical people – either go free or in the case of admitted al Qaeda supporters, are treated to a stay at the Saudi prison system equivalent of Club Med.

I had to laugh when viewing a 2-part series on BBC about the Saudi justice system’s (as if there is one really) innovative (I’m laughing again) approach to reintegration of those suspected terrorists returning from their stay at Guantanamo Bay courtesy of the US government. Take a moment towatch the video link within the article but be forewarned: the video may cause choking on laughter so refrain from eating or drinking anything during viewing. It’s faking hilarious. It’s hilarious in that classic WHAT THE FAK way not hilarious like a John Candy or Chevy Chase movie. Here are a bunch of guys – ‘former terrorists’ – sitting around the ole day center playing ping pong and kicking back with Sony Playstation games – you know, getting rehabilitated.

Ok some may say it’s very appropriate and surprisingly sensitive of the Saudis to treat their returned citizens to a proper therapeutic environment before reintegration into society and family life. Surely, they deserve some consideration after the horrors they were most likely subjected to while in Guantanamo especially now that most of the world is very well aware of the harsh, inhumane interrogation methods deployed on both ‘real terrorists’(ie guys who proudly admitted their whole hearted allegiance to Osama bin Laden’s boys’ club before any water boarding or sleep deprivation took place) and those the US government just held for the hell of it because they thought it better to round up everyone with an Arab name than take any chances that not all Arabs are not dead set in the ideal of death to America. Better safe than sorry after all since we’re at war and we had to smoke them out oftheir holes or from their domestic flights within the US when they were just trying to legally and innocently get home to their family reunion or to meet their sister’s new baby because that family reunion could’ve been a sleeper cell meeting or a plot to take down an IHOP when, in fact, it was MERELY a genuine family reunion where you pass the potato salad and listen to your grandmother tells stories you’ve heard 100 times before but politely listen to because it’s your grandmother telling it. Ah W needed no reason for anything because we were at war –oops wait that’s right still at something – and when at war, he could do whatever the fak he pleased under the guise of ‘protecting us from evil’ yet no one seemed too concerned about protecting America, Americans, and the world from him. Funny.