Saudi Arabian Blogger to Get 1000 Lashes

Just when you think it can't get any worse in the Kingdom  we get this. Raif Badawi was convicted of cyber crime and insulting Islam and was handed down the sentence of 10 years and 1000 lashes.
But yet this is just one of many things that they do which causes ones eyebrows to raise and me personally go WTF.  After spending time on a deployment there in the 90's I always wondered what would  happen if the government could not continue to pay off the welfare state among it population.
 I think we all know the answer to that question. I also know that in the MSM you will here nary a peep.

Here is the full article which has additional links from Zerohedge.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-10/us-ally-saudi-arabia-lashes-blogger-1000-times-islam-insult