What's going on in Riyadh? Anyone from the Middle East on here who can share info?

Nothing, in Saudi Arabia they don't fool around, you act the fool and they take you out.

No, I tell a lie, they take you out long before you are able to act the fool. If you even THINK about doing that you're out.

Why would anyone chooses to live in or visit the Gulf? Even Dubai. I get it’s warm but so many better - and more beneficial - places to spend time and money.

I very much doubt anyone living in Riyadh will be posting on Datalounge.

r3 Why? Is the website blocked?

These people are animals. It has come to light Khashoggi was dismembered whilst still ALIVE.

What r1 said. Saudis keep their heads down and their mouths shut.

There is always resistance R6 We are not hearing about it.

So grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene.

So? Man has dementia. Who's powering him then?

Saudi is a country of mad fanatics run by mad fanatics who are pushing terrorism throughout the free world and who are building mosques everywhere and thus spreading terrorism further. They despise the west and know they have all the world leader in their pockets as monie and oil talk.

They live in a bubble.

Nothing lasts forever.

Nothing has to last longer than one's lifetime. Forever is a term for the dead.

[quote]It has come to light Khashoggi was dismembered whilst still ALIVE.

Uh, no, this has not "come to light." Who's paying you to spread disinformation?

Anyway, Saudi Twitter is apparently blowing up, because Twitter is extremely popular there, but it's mostly defenders of MBS.

Gee, I wonder why R13.

So how are they defending MBS? It’s perfectly all right to dismember people?

What's going on in Riyadh is the same as that going on in Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, Teheran, Khartoum, Addis Ababa, Rabat, Islamabad, Damascus, Istanbul, etc. etc. etc. Brutal despots ruling with an iron-fist. And woe to anyone dares to raise a hand in challenge. It helps to keep in mind that one of the greatest sins in Islam is disobedience to the "father".

Islam is a long con designed to keep the powerful in power. Just like its two brothers, Christianity and Judaism. FFS, what is it that blinds so many to this mental slavery?

The Saudi regime also announced a purge of senior officials including Saud al-Qahtani, an influential advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and General Ahmed al-Assiri, a senior intelligence official. Both men have been fired. Eighteen Saudi nationals were said to have been arrested.

The news, which cited preliminary findings from an official investigation, was announced on state television on Friday. The purge appeared to be aimed at insulating the crown prince and protecting his position. It was reported that he would remain overall head of intelligence.

[quote]Islam is a long con designed to keep the powerful in power.

Basic principle of humanity, the strong rule, the weak submit. Islam reinforces this principle.

[quote]Just like its two brothers, Christianity and Judaism

Erroneously tossing in Xtianity and Jews into a comparison doesn't absolve you from either bigotry or stupidity.

In Riyadh and Jeddah, conversations about Khashoggi were conducted in hushed tones, often using only his first name to disguise the topic or mentioning only a “political crisis”. Some Saudis previously willing to offer cautious criticism of the political crackdown declined to speak at all.

Months of repression of critical voices, including the arrests of clerics, women who had opposed the driving ban, human rights activists and journalists, had convinced many that they should think twice before speaking out, even in private. But details of Khashoggi’s disappearance and alleged dismemberment inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul have sent a fresh chill through the intellectual and elite Saudi circles that Khashoggi once mixed in.

I never like or wish to live in Middle East. The place is fully of culturally and mentally barbaric animal like people. 🤮

The Saudis organized 9/11 they are paying for Mosques to be built all over the world as they plan to dominate the world with radical Islam where there is no discussion on the Koran, you obey or will be killed. The Saudis are not the friends of the West they are the mortal enemies of Christianity and freedom of speech. Beware Donald Trump.

Why in the world do people choose religion? I could never figure that out. I guess people just like to feel OK about judging others and they get the ok from their religion.

Even if there were posters who lived in Saudi Arabia, they would not have inside scoop on how the Princes are reacting.

You think we got insiders from the Royal Family here?!

Do we think this prince escorts? I would pay extra for the "Embassy Experience"

R25 dismemberment???

Well, if it involves "members" Id pay extra.

shitty cunts

"[MbS] has no more friends in the family."

I'm not going to get very upset over getting Riyadh of another friend of Osama Bin laden.

Besides Arab barbarism, there isn't much the American public knows about Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. This must be a trump card for MSB and his predecessors.