Saudi Arabia freezes Canada trade ties for urging activists' release

BBC - Saudi Arabia freezes Canada trade ties for urging activists' release
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45079682


Samar Badawi, pictured here with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, received an International Women of Courage Award in 2012

Saudi Arabia has said it is freezing all new trade with Canada and expelling its ambassador over its "interference" in the kingdom's domestic affairs.

A Saudi foreign ministry statement said it considered Canada's call last week for the release of detained civil society and women's rights activists a violation of Saudi sovereignty.

Those held include the Saudi-American human rights campaigner Samar Badawi, sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi.

Canada said it was seeking "clarity".

However, foreign ministry spokeswoman Marie-Pier Baril stressed that Canada would "always stand up for the protection of human rights... including women's rights, and freedom of expression around the world".​

Hold the line Canada. The Free World is with you. We are coming.


Rice for President Yahoo Group Dec 5, 2017 Condoleezza Rice meets the Saudi king & crown prince in Riyadh

SUPREME ALLIED CONDISTA comments, Dec 5, 2017
Don't ask me what Condi was doing with those bad boys?
Condi should not trust the Saudi masters of radical Islamic terrorism further than world forces on her command can seize their oil tankers or the level their palaces to the ground.
I wouldn't blame Condi if she wanted all treacherous, backstabbing Saudi royals interrogated to ask them why they funded 9/11, the Taliban and ISIS?
All I'll say is that if Condi is giving the Saudi royals one more chance to reform to save their necks then it is one more chance than anyone who was not a saint nor an angel would give them.​

So now it looks like the Saudis don't want to make the most of their last chance to reform after all.

I so, I can't imagine that Condi will be too pleased about that and she may well have something to say about this in due course - whether with the Saudis in private, or in public to all of us, I have no idea, but the Free World hangs on Condi's every word as per usual.

I might suggest seizing control over Saudi TV satellites and broadcasting Condi's words (suitably translated into Arabic) on all TV channels directly to the Arab people in Saudi Arabia and indeed wherever those satellites can be received. That should get the Saudis' attention.


The meeting of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada on September 11 & 12, 2016.

 

You know the Saudis? Pushing them is a mistake.. and more to the point.. Canada doesn't call the shots on the culture and traditions of another people who existed long before Canada.

 

Agree, 100%

 

And besides, it's always gratifying to see the The Hair Pony come a cropper. Couldn't happen to a more deserving idiot.

 

Not surprising at all. KSA is far right conservative muslim, admits to creating and nurturing Alqaeda and supporting extremists and helped them try and over throw Assad a moderate ruler

 

LOLOL.. You don't know anything about Syria, Assad, AQ or Saudi Arabia. KSA yanked OBL's citizenship in 1994 and declared AQ a terrorist organization that same year.

 

Instead of 'seeking clarity' Canada should specify with a great deal of 'clarity' itself that this backward nation must allow freedom of speech and thought for its citizens.

 

SA is a backward nation by all measures. Without oil, financed and developed by the west, they'd still be scratching out a living in the desert sands.

 

They have come a long, long way into modernity. You have never been there, have you?

 

Canada should expel all Saudi diplomats and lobbyists from their country, cancel all arms deals with Saudi Arabi, and open up investigations into Saudi Arabia's involvement in international terrorism. And if they really want to stick it to the Saudis, then the Canadians should sell advanced arms to Qatar.

 

Not a problem.........

 

The historical "mistake" of significance was the Saudis' mistake in sponsoring 9/11, the Taliban, ISIS etc. and what I think I know about the Saudis is that they still don't yet know how much of a mistake sponsoring global Jihadi terrorism was / is. I think the Saudis think that most of them, Bin Laden excluded, got away with it and are getting away with it. I think that's a miscalculation but time will tell.

Canada is part of the Free World and the Free World calls the shots when we need to do so.

I wasn't aware that sponsoring global Jihadi terrorism was a "cultural tradition" of the Arab people. It seems more to me that that nasty little terrorist trend only really got going when the Arab monarchs and dictators starting abusing the oil wealth which they happened to be sitting on, not investing in their societies but wasting it on sponsoring terrorism.

Perhaps the Arabs might like to grab their land's oil wealth back from their oppressive rulers and join the Free World, with a little help from the Free World - and if they are very lucky, with a little help from Condoleezza Rice?

 

Saudi Arabia is a backwards, third rate theocracy that is 100% dependent on western technology and financing for its standard of living. In thirty years, they'll turn into Afghanistan.

 

Careful, Canada will send 12 leaky boats and it's 80 tanks over there.

 

I have no doubt at all that oil wealth, developed by the west, has given them a look of modernity but that belies their own attitudes developed many hundreds of years ago, and their minds haven't kept pace with their financial advancements. A monkey in a tuxedo is still a monkey.

Origins of the 19 hijackers

Saudi Arabia 15
United Arab Emirates 2
Egypt 1
Lebanon 1

 

If Canada allows itself to be pushed around by backwards Saudi despots, it will be an embarrassment.

 

And probably win the war. Never underestimate the canadian soldiers.

 

Yes I'm sure the 30k Canadian troops will overwhelmingly defeat the 230k SA troops with their 1200 tanks.

Good luck with that.

 

The Saudis cannot even defeat a rabble of Houthi militants. They are quite skilled at bombing weddings and starving children though.

 

The children of terrorists always suffer.

Maybe the Houthi's can get some of that Palestinian children's TV to teach them how to kill starting around age 5.

 

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

 

If your kids get bored you could always let them watch shows about shooting Jews or, my personal favorite, the Jew eating rabbit.





Or we could get some tips on parenting from them

Terrorists are the best parents after all.

 

Canada has Allies. SA doesn't.

 

Are you in the Canadian military?

 

This has got to stick in the craw of Canadians.

Did Saudis threaten Canada with 9/11-style attack? Some believe they did…
Published time: 6 Aug, 2018 15:09Edited time: 6 Aug, 2018 21:05

Fragment of the controversial poster.

A Saudi Arabian social media creative group has published a picture of an Air Canada flight moving towards the CN Tower, accompanied by a warning to the Canadian government.
The picture was produced by a group called @Infographic_KSA, which describes itself as a project “managed by a group of Saudi youth who are interested in technology and social media Facts backed by numbers & evidence”. Its online presence is mostly on Twitter, Instagram and Telegram.


Full poster posted by @Infographic_KSA on Twitter
The poster was produced amid a diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia over Ottawa’s criticism of the Arab kingdom’s treatment of human rights activists.