In spite of his pledging that he would protect GLBT people from the harm of foreign ideologies, Trump walked that back when it comes to Saudi Arabia.
To get the GLBT vote, he had claimed,
“We want to live in a country where Gay and Lesbian Americans and all Americans are safe from radical Islam which, by the way, wants to murder and has murdered Gays and they enslave women,”
and followed this with his pledge,
“As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.”
However, recently 37 men who were mainly minority Shia Muslims were beheaded by Saudi Arabia and among them were 5 men who were gay, according to a confession heard by the Sharia law court.
Human rights groups have complained that confessions of terrorism and spying for Iran were the results of torture, and one of the men allegedly admitted to having sex with four of his co-accused ‘terrorists.’
A court document says the man allegedly confessed to gay acts and hating the majority Sunni sect, stating,
“He said that he did all this because he belonged to the Shia sect and because he was against the Sunni sect and because of his hate for the state and its men and its security forces.”
The man’s lawyer claimed the confession was a fabrication.
The executions were carried out on Tuesday in the cities of Riyadh, Mecca and Medina as a warning to others and also a political move to impress the USA.
According to the Interior Ministry’s statement, those executed had adopted extremist ideologies and formed terrorist cells to spread chaos and sectarian strife, and had been found guilty and ordered executed by the country’s high court and the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, which handles terrorism trials.
However, there are doubts about many of the cases against the men.
Among those executed was Mutjaba al-Sweikat, who was arrested at the airport in the Saudi city of Dammam on his way to Western Michigan University in 2012 when he was 17. He was 23 when he died. He was severely beaten all over his body before ‘confessing’ to the crime of attending a pro-democracy rally in 2012.
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Abdulkarim al-Hawaj, who was 21at the time of his beheading, was accused of spreading information about protests on whatsapp. When he was arrested at 16, he was denied a lawyer. It is illegal under international law to put anyone to death who was under 18 at the time of the alleged crime.
Both he and al-Sweikat were held in solitary confinement and their convictions based on ‘confessions’ which were extracted under torture.
The United Nations has condemned the beheadings.
Saudi Arabia’s preferred method of execution is public beheadings and it uses public stonings for people convicted of such acts as adultery.
Saudi Arabia’s supreme council of clerics are all ultraconservative Sunnis, and the government defends such executions as a powerful tool for deterrence.
100 people have been executed since the start of the year.
A few days later, at his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as if nothing had just happened in Saudia Arabia, Trump let it be known that he would remain a steadfast supporter of the Saudi government.
And why?
“They have nothing but cash, right? They buy a lot from us, $450 billion they bought. You had people wanting to cut off Saudi Arabia … I don’t want to lose them.”
No one knows where he got that $450 Billion figure, but the rally crowd was impressed.
37 people are beheaded, 5 of them living in a country that “wants to murder and has murdered gays and they enslave women”, and just as with Jamal Khashoggi who was the critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and who was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October, in spite of a global outcry and the imposition of arms embargoes by a number of countries, Trump stood by Saudi Arabia saying,
“If we foolishly cancel these [military armament] contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries, and very happy to acquire all of this newfound business. It would be a wonderful gift to them directly from the United States.”
He gave them a pass because Saudi Arabia had money to spend, and they had made a deal for a Trump golf resort.
Money trumped life.