{"id":5789,"date":"2015-06-20T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/04\/bill-maher-nobody-cares-about-beheadings-in-saudi-arabia-because-the-saudis-have-oil\/"},"modified":"2015-06-20T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T11:45:43","slug":"maher-nobody-cares-about-saudi-beheadings-because-the-saudis-haveoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/5789","title":{"rendered":"Maher: Nobody cares about Saudi beheadings because the Saudis have&nbsp;oil"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/billmaher\/status\/507388174910251009\n<p>Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20140806213729\">far from perfect<\/a>, and there is some&nbsp;truth in&nbsp;Maher’s claim that the country’s internal affairs would undergo&nbsp;more scrutiny if not for its&nbsp;oil.&nbsp;Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia’s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/saudi-arabia-executes-19-during-half-of-august-in-disturbing-surge-of-beheadings-9686063.html\">beheading<\/a>&nbsp;of convicted criminals (mostly&nbsp;drug traffickers) seems to us to be on a different moral plane&nbsp;than ISIS’&nbsp;beheading of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Keep in mind, too, that the people beheaded in Saudi Arabia weren’t American.&nbsp;Surely, that is a more important factor than oil in explaining America’s indifference.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Austerity_Sucks\/status\/507390027534721024<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/04\/bill-maher-nobody-cares-about-beheadings-in-saudi-arabia-because-the-saudis-have-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/04\/bill-maher-nobody-cares-about-beheadings-in-saudi-arabia-because-the-saudis-have-oil\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/billmaher\/status\/507388174910251009 Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system is far from perfect, and there is some&nbsp;truth in&nbsp;Maher’s claim that the country’s internal affairs would undergo&nbsp;more scrutiny if not for its&nbsp;oil.&nbsp;Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia’s&nbsp;beheading&nbsp;of convicted criminals (mostly&nbsp;drug traffickers) seems to us to be on a different moral plane&nbsp;than ISIS’&nbsp;beheading of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Keep in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/5789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maher: Nobody cares about Saudi beheadings because the Saudis have&nbsp;oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3210,3211,3209],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-bill-maher","tag-oil","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14347719506446-bill-maher.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}