Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC

Jan.16, 2020

Arab and Muslim Self-inflicted Rejection of Reason, “Saudi Arabia Committed to Protecting Human Rights”?

Elimination of Soleimani

CDHR’s Commentaries and Analysis

Arab and Muslim  Regimes Lament Centuries of Self-inflicted Rejection of Reason

CDHR Commentary: After turning a blind eye to centuries of evolutionary strides in sciences, social, political, religious, and economic progress, some Arab and Muslim regimes, led by an anti-Saudi and anti-Emirati Malaysian leader , are calling for catching up with “non-Muslims.” The December 19, 2019, “Muslim Summit” in Kuala Lumpur, Indonesian head of state Mahathir  Mohammed told a number of Arab and Muslim heads of state at a conference, “while we may not have been able to fully dissect all that had caused our pain and anguish, we are mo stly in agreement that it is our inability to keep up with the progress and development of the non-Muslims that has left us in the lurch.” Read more: www.cdhr.info

 “Saudi Arabia Committed to Protecting Human Rights”?

CDHR Commentary: Exalting King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed, as champions of human rights is expected from their appointees, like Dr. Awwad Al-Awwad, the president of the powerless Saudi Human Rights Commission. Dr. Awwad was appointed by the king to head the Commission. Dr. Al-Awwad stated that “More than 60 reforms have been made to improve the situation of human rights in the Kingdom, of which 22 related to women’s rights,” especially the right to drive. The Saudi rulers, their lobbyists and beneficiaries promote allowing women to go to movie houses, sport arenas and to drive as “the deal of the century.” In reality, the recent Saudi social initiatives are neither novelty nor revolutionary. They have been practiced under all other systems for centuries. Women around the world, including in most Arab and Muslim countries, have been driving and going to movies since cars and movies existed. Additionally, the social initiatives were not intended to democratize and humanize the Saudi system, but to attract foreign investors to resuscitate the faltering Saudi economy. Read more: www.cdhr.info 

GCC Dynasties: Fragmented and Vulnerable

CDHR Commentary: With the exception of the defiant Emir of Qatar, the kings, Sultans and Emirs of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) and their outsized entourages, mostly security and body guard personnel, arrived in Saudi Arabia on December 10, 2019 to conduct their 40th summit in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. As expected, their agenda consisted of the same topics they have rehashed during the group’s previous 39 sessions: addressing “regional and global political developments.” Read more: www.cdhr.info

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2019/12/10/GCC-leaders-arrive-in-Riyadh-for-40th-Summit.htmlews.com/node/1597466

Killing Tyrant Murderers May Score Points for Presidents and Generals, but…

CDHR Commentary: Defeating extremism, terrorism and annihilating charismatic and appealing killers in the Middle East necessitate drying the swamps that breed and nurture them: tyrannical systems. Omnipresent social injustice, rampant corruption, political repression, religious intolerance, ethnic cleansing, maltreatment and marginalization of women are the root causes of centuries-old wars and rise of consecutive assassins and death squads in the Middle East.  Killing bin Laden produced ISIS, which the ruthless General Soleimani, in collaboration with Trump’s Administration, helped dispersing. Killing Soleimani will produce more repression, as well as deadlier individuals and movements. Read more: www.cdhr.info

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