{"id":1386001,"date":"2022-03-17T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386001"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:21:19","slug":"bojo-runs-damage-control-as-head-chopping-saudis-execute-three-during-oil-begging-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bojo-runs-damage-control-as-head-chopping-saudis-execute-three-during-oil-begging-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"BoJo Runs Damage Control as Head-Chopping Saudis Execute Three During Oil-Begging Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin 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style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running damage control after three men were executed during his oil-begging visit to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are changing,\u201d claimed Prime Minister Johnson on Wednesday, after hearing the news that three more men were executed by the Saudi dictatorship during his trip to the Islamist country to beg for oil.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson had been in the Wahabbist nation in order to persuade its rulers to pledge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/16\/bojo-promises-to-hold-head-chopping-saudis-to-account-on-oil-begging-trip\/\">more oil<\/a> for the West amid a sanctions war with Russia, though critics expressed concerns that the British PM was cosying up to a regime of human rights abusers, who had killed a record number of people last Saturday in the biggest mass execution for a generation.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson initially tried to play down such concerns, his efforts were undermined when \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/boris-johnson-arrives-in-gulf-for-talks-on-oil-crisis-9t98mfqdm\">according<\/a> to\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em> \u2014 another three men were put to death by the Saudis as he arrived in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>81 people had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/13\/ethical-alternative-boris-may-beg-saudis-boost-oil-supply-despite-mass-beheadings\/\">executed<\/a> on the Saturday prior to Johnson\u2019s visit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/16\/bojo-promises-to-hold-head-chopping-saudis-to-account-on-oil-begging-trip\/\">forcing<\/a>\u00a0the British leader to\u00a0 claim that he would be bringing up the Saudi regime\u2019s record of human rights abuses while he begged for oil.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As a result of the further executions, Johnson has been left scrambling to justify his visit to the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what you can also see is that \u2014 and I think that people who come to Saudi Arabia would testify this \u2014 in spite of that news you\u2019ve referred to today, things are changing in Saudi Arabia,\u201d Johnson alleged, referring to the regime\u2019s executions as obliquely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to see them continue to change and that\u2019s why we see value in engaging with Saudi Arabia and why we see value in the partnership,\u201d he wheedled.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People can be publicly executed for &#8220;crimes&#8221; including apostasy and sorcery under Islamic law in Saudi Arabia by medieval and even pre-medieval methods such as stoning, although the preferred method of execution is beheading with a scimitar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KWnVu3nxTS\">https:\/\/t.co\/KWnVu3nxTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1502978954889768969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Boris Johnson may claim that Saudi Arabia is \u201cchanging\u201d, it seems unclear whether it is changing for the better, at least in regards to its propensity to put people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/13\/ethical-alternative-boris-may-beg-saudis-boost-oil-supply-despite-mass-beheadings\/\">quite literally<\/a>\u00a0to the sword.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although it is unknown how these men, as well as those executed on Saturday, were killed, Saudi Arabia\u2019s favoured method of execution is public decapitation with a traditional scimitar, although death by firing squad is gaining in popularity as executioners sufficiently skilled with a sword are apparently becoming increasingly hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>People in Saudi Arabia can be executed not only on charges of murder and terrorism but also for such medieval \u201ccrimes\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-saudi-execution-apostasy-idUSKBN0LS0S620150224\">apostasy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-18503550\">sorcery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bloodshed, however, both Johnson and the British government seem adamant that Britain should trade with a regime that abuses human rights if it means making the West less reliant on Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t condone the policies of Saudi Arabia,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/16\/bojo-promises-to-hold-head-chopping-saudis-to-account-on-oil-begging-trip\/\">said<\/a> Johnson\u2019s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have to be clear that we are facing a serious threat \u2014 not just to European security but to global security \u2014 in Vladimir Putin and his appalling behaviour,\u201d she said, as if Russia\u2019s behaviour was manifestly more appalling than Saudi norms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/saudi-un-children-idINKCN1270SN\">stoning children to death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson \u2014 like Truss \u2014 has also expressed his desire to end the West\u2019s addiction to Russian oil and gas, which is apparently immoral in a way that addiction to Saudi product is not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look at the dependency the West in particular has built up on Putin\u2019s hydrocarbons, on Putin\u2019s oil and gas, we can see what a mistake that was because he\u2019s been able to blackmail the West and hold Western economies to ransom \u2013 we need independence,\u201d claimed Johnson, despite his having severely stunted domestic production by pursuing green net-zero policies he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/25\/fracking-could-have-saved-britain-as-bojo-well-knew\/\">once opposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saudi Mosque Just Yards from EU Headquarters Seized by Belgian Govt Amid Extremism Fears  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yNeIonnYS3\">https:\/\/t.co\/yNeIonnYS3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/976194171672449024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running damage control after three men were executed during his 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