On the morning of 4 April 2005, six young Somali nationals were taken from their prison cells in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, and beheaded in public.
Announcing the executions, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior stated that the six had been convicted of robberies, and that their executions were ordered in October 2004.
The news of the executions shocked the men’s relatives in Somalia and Europe. The relatives were under the impression that the six men, who were arrested in 1999, had been sentenced to five-year prison terms and flogging. The relatives had failed to obtain official confirmation of the sentences, and became increasingly anxious when the expected release date had come and gone and there was still no sign of the men. They approached Amnesty International in 2004 but no further information could be obtained until the announcement of the executions.
Amnesty International then learnt that the six prisoners were themselves unaware of the death sentences until the very morning of their executions. The six had escaped war-torn Somalia in search of a better life only to fall victim to Saudi Arabia’s relentless use of the death penalty. Their families were unable to recover their bodies for burial.
The case of the six Somalis is only one of many to illustrate the stark horror of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. Another report has emerged recently 76 Executions in Saudi Arabia This Year.
Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the judicial system in place to deal with capital punishment and most of the victims are un-represented and are never actually brought into court. Saudia Arabia does not practice Sharia Law according to the Sunnah, which gives a fair trial to the accused. Tell the Saudi monarchy to stop punishing the poor and abolish the double standard in their legal system! Please support this cause!
Nice update brother
Brother Add the note which you posted on fb group in reply of i am muslim not a sunni, shia etc
Salam,
Are you aware of any well known hanbali scholar who equated the Wahhabi movement with the khawarij?
Salamun ‘Alaykum yes , right of the bat, Sulyamaan Ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab, Imaam Mustafaa ash-Shatti, Abdul Kareem al-Naqshbandi [yes a Hanbali Naqshbandi] Imaam Safarini and his many students . They were the witnesses to the emergence of the movement. I can list many more names, but righ at the moment this is of the top of the head. See The Divine Lightning translated by al-Hajj Abu Ja’far al-Hanbali for more extensive and in depth information regarding this subject.
I have access to the translation of Imam Mustafa ash Shatti’s book. He does label him as having the creed of harruriya. I have no access to the rest. Do you have the source as to where Imam Safarini associates him with the khawarij? That would be a valuable quotation.
Jazakallah khair!
Salamun ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah
The Harruriyah are a specific group of the Khawaarij named after the place they are from. Khawaarij are Harruriyyah are often used as synonyms for the same cult. I know of these texts but do not have full access to them myself a they are still in manuscript form. An expert in this field in al-Hajj Abu Ja’far al-Hanbali who may not only just give you the quote, but also the manuscript picture, inshaallah. On top of this I will conduct further research to solidify this point.
Jazakallah khair. It would be a good work to compile the quotations of well recognised scholars who had associated the Wahhabi movement with the khawarij.