What values do we share with Saudi Arabia?
James Forsyth 1:49pm
First we had the Saudi King declaring that Britain had not done enough to tackle the threat of terrorism which may be true but considering Saudi Arabia’s continuing role in exporting extremism, the King might want to consider the log in his own kingdom before going looking for specs in other countries. Now we have an even more breathtaking quote from the Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells:
Mr Howells told a conference ahead of a state visit by Saudi leader King Abdullah that the two states could unite around their "shared values".I can see the national interest case for the relationship with Saudi Arabia but I really can’t see what values Britain and Saudi Arabia share. Indeed, as this exhaustive Policy Exchange report shows a large amount of the extremist material in British Mosques comes from Saudi Arabia.
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Steven
November 17th, 2007 5:27pmAn Egyptian Guys going to be Beheaded for Witchcraft there soon... Obviously he confessed, after being accused of it by his neighbour who believes he was using Black magic to break up his marriage with his wife and then commit another capital crime adultery with her! Does anyone really believe the crime statistics of a country that will execute a Women for being raped! Oh I'm sorry Tarek S Arab... For not being able to prove she was.