Crimes punishable by the death sentence in Saudi Arabia include murder, serious attacks on the Islam religion, adultery, dress codes, and since 1987, drug smuggling. Under Saudi Arabian law, serious crimes merit serious consequences. Repeated theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand, administered under anesthetic. Because most meals in Saudi Arabia are eaten by hand from a communal bowl and only the right hand may touch the food, this punishment effectively bans the convicted thief from society. The severity of this punishment has led to a slight softening of the law in recent years; now if the thief repents and makes restitution before the case is brought before a judge, the punishment can be reduced... furthermore, the victim of the crime may demand payment rather than amputation of the thief’s right hand, and in some cases the victim is even permitted to parden the criminal. In a typical year at least ten hands amputations are carried out for repeated thievery in Saudi Arabia. (Goodwin, 1943) Today in the United States, crimes such as theft are punishable by jail sentence if they have more than one thievery act. Although the punishment for fornication is the same as for adultery: death. Both are acts of sexual dishonor that reflects on the honor of the female’s family. In the case of Adultery, the female family is much more damaged than her husband because it is her male relatives and not her husband who are responsible for her behavior and her dishonor. Therefore it becomes their duty to punish the adulterous woman. (Mackey, 2002) In The United States, adultery is considered a crime under our spiritual law but as for the law of government, the act of adultery is only grounds for divorce. In 1987, base on a new ru... ... middle of paper ... ...gely by religious values: Conservative dress, conservative literature, and conservative behavior. Freedom of political and religious expression is not allowed, and diversions like dancing, or movies, activities are almost nonexistence in Saudi Arabia. As it has been for centuries, the cultural and political life of Saudi Arabia continues to be expressed in terms of Islamic principles. Works Cited Aburish, S. K. (1994). The House of Saud. new y. Goodwin, W. (1943). Saudi Arabia. San Diego: Lucent Books. Mackey, S. (2002). The Saudis. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Massari, M. (1996). Muddying The Rules on Asylum. Economist . Morgan, M. (2004). Black Eye for Freedom. Christianity Today . Rosenthal, A. M. (1997). The City and The Kingdom. New York Times . Wurmbrand, R. (1998). Tortured for Christ. Bartlesville: Living Sacrifice Book Co.
Saudi Arabia may be rich in oil, but it is richer still in fundamentalist Islamic sentiment. If one accepts the postmodern concept of delocalized topical boundaries between states, then in economic terms Saudi Arabia clearly lies on what Samuel P. Huntington has aptly called the "bloody borders" (55) of Islam, occupying a key commercial juncture between the Arab world and the United States. The Saudi regime has long "engaged in a deadly dance with religious extremism" (Zakaria 276), burying its failures in strong support for a highly conservative form of Islam (271) which views "the modern world and non-Muslims with great suspicion" (272), creating an external other to bolster internal unity.
In Canada, we all have the freedom to express our opinion about anything. In Saudi Arabia, no one is allowed to express their opinion, especially if the opinion is saying something against the government. Any women who voice her opinion will be caught and tortured or even executed for her words. Citizens in Canada are allowed to publicly worship any religion while in Saudi Arabia only men are allowed to publicly worship Islam. No women or man is safe from the prying eyes of the
...ped her punishment; however, she became pregnant in terrible times – people leaving the country in order to send money for food. Kingston states, “Adultery became a crime when the village needed food” (627). Meaning adultery in excellent times was not looked upon but in awful times, it was. In American culture adultery in moral standards is always look up in any situation. The similarity is that in Chinese and American culture morals are priority and it depends on how society in those cultures define morals.
Within Islam, there are sects, namely Sunni and Shi’a, and within those sects are different schools of thought. Salafism (from the word salaf, meaning to “follow” or “precede”) is a movement, rooted in Sunni Islam, based on a literalist, fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. These Muslims rely solely on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions as guides for correct Islamic practice. Everything else, they deem impure innovation. Following the same ideology, but specific to Saudi Arabia, is Wahhabism. Wahhabism has a fairly negative connotation within the Western world; however, this sect was highly influential and continues to be esteemed by the royal Saudi family.
First of all, Saudi Arabia and China have some similarities. The former has the international airports and the latter has too. Saudi Arabia keen on literature just as China does. Fast food is popular not only in China put also in Saudi Arabia, for examples, Mc Donald's hamburgers, French fries and Kentucky fried chicken. In addition, both Saudi Arabia and China have made a mutually enriching exchange of cuisine. There are Chinese restaurants in Saudi Arabia, where diners can enjoy Chinese food, for instance Chinese meal in Suzhou with rice, shrimp, eggplant and vegetable s...
“Saudi Arabia has a male-dominated society. Although some women work, they play traditional roles and rarely attain positions of similar income and authority as men” (Katz, 2010). Western expatriate women will find many restrictions in the country and showing confidence and/or assertiveness can be counter-productive. It is recommended that expat women do not appear too bold or aggressive, which may create major issues. These American traits should be avoided in all situations. Women should act professional and conservative at all times (e.g. busin...
By looking to the United States government structure, there are three kinds of government, the Federal government, the State government, and the Local government. The Constitution of the United States divides the part of federal government into three distinct branches, the Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary. Article 1 of the Constitution sets that the United State Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government. This branch consists of the Senate and House of Representatives, where the laws of the country are made. Besides that, the Constitution sets explicitly powers to each house and the structure to create its own house, the process for creating laws, some powers that Congress does not have. In addition, there are more
The Saudi constitution sets forth the system of governance, the rights of the citizens and the duties of the government to its citizens. CITE. The constitution also memorializes Saudi Arabia’s reliance on the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad as the basis of all laws in the Kingdom. [16] Specifically, Article 7 of the constitution enunciates the central role of Islamic Shari'ah in the Saudi governance system – stating that any authority afforded the government must find its foundation in the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet. CITE. The constitution also emphasizes the government’s role in protecting and propagating the principles of Islam. CITE.
Saudi Arabia is the birth place of Prophet Mohammad and Islam. It was established in 1932 by king Abd-al-Aziz and it practices strict interpretation of Sunni Islam. The country has been ruled as an absolute monarchy by the descendant of king Abd-al-Aziz since his death in 1953. The laws of the land have...
Located in the Middle East between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia is about one-fourth the size of the United States, and Riyadh, the capital, is located in the central eastern part of the country (Nations Encyclopedia, 2015).
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a petrostate. It is a petrostate in the sense that the oil sector dominates the national economy and international exports. (Colgan 226) This is due to Saudi Arabia’s one crop economy, oil. (Ali 100) Oil accounts for 70-80% of the state revenue as well as roughly 95% of export revenues. Before the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the economy rested on Islamic pilgrims. Containing the Grand Mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram, Saudi Arabia gets a large influx of believers every year for the Hajj, one of the Five Pillars of Islam. During this time of year, income was made by food and shelter sold to the travelers. This was enough to support the state, but not enough to make it the monetary power it is today. What allowed for Saudi Arabia’s climb in the world economic ladder was oil. Oil has been a valuable industrial resource since the beginning of World War 1. Since then the demand for oil has progressively become higher and higher amongst industrial nations, allowing for oil rich states to receive large amounts of affluence. Among these oil rich states is Saudi Arabia, the region with the highest capacity for oil production out of the entire Middle East. From their remarkably high oil production, Saudi Arabia was able to gain considerable amounts of wealth and political significance. Oil in Saudi Arabia politically affected the Saudi government in both their foreign and domestic policy by providing economic power, the ability to fund wars, the ability to use economic diplomacy.
Saudi Arabia is an average sized country, roughly one-fifth the size of the United States, in the Middle East. The population is roughly twenty-seven million people. It is the birth place of the Islamic religion, which is Saudi Arabia’s main religion. Most of the country is desert and they have a dry hot climate. Saudi Arabia’s main export is oil. According to the article “U.S. Relations with Saudi Arabia.” Saudi Arabia gives the United States over one million barrels of oil every day. Although Saudi Arabia has a great economy they have very many conflicts within the county. In one instance, a person not from Saudi Arabia gouged out another man’s eye with a set of jumper cables at a gas station. While he was in prison he was given the opportunity to pay the man’s medical bills which was twenty-five thousand dollars. Instead his punishment was the old saying of “an eye for an eye”, so the government ordered for his eye to be gouged out and he had to pay for the man’s medical bills (“Saudi Arabia Court…”). We as a nation should care about Saudi Arabia because their foreign workers are being mistreated, domestic abuse is very high, and women have little to no rights in Saudi Arabia.
The first form of adultery is Accidental Infidelity. This can happen to the more careless person, but at the same time, to the person whose values and commitments are tenuous. They lack self-control and respect for both themselves and their spouse. Any situation where they are left alone with the opposite sex is an opportunity for an “accident” to occur. It was shocking to find out that most cases of infidelity occur with couples who are less than twenty -five years old, one would have thought early marriages where happy and care free (figure one).
Being Saudi Arabian is to be faithful and authentic to one important religious symbol of Islam which is being believer of Allah but no one else and being the believer that Mohammed is the prophet of Allah, which is considered very essential aspect of the culture. Saudi Arabians are the people who have strong affiliation and loyalty to the authentic, generous, wise Arab tribes who settled in the Arabian Peninsula many years ago. In addition, being Saudi Arabian represents being loyal to the country that fully contributed to providing free healthcare, education, and public services for the citizens. Saudi Arabians are the people who care and help others when they face life-threatening disasters. Saudi Arabia has many symbols that represent them.
world because of this there a very wealthy country. (Saudi Arabia is also the largest