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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on February 10, 2019, 10:56:24 pm

Title: Six-Year-Old Boy Beheaded in Saudi Arabia in Alleged Act of Sectarian Violence
Post by: TomSea on February 10, 2019, 10:56:24 pm
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Six-Year-Old Boy Beheaded in Saudi Arabia in Alleged Act of Sectarian Violence
By Tom Ozimek
February 10, 2019 Updated: February 10, 2019

A 6-year-old boy in Saudi Arabia was beheaded with a piece of broken glass in front of his screaming mother, a campaign group has claimed.

*Warning: Graphic content.

Shia Rights Watch, an NGO research entity and advocacy group headquartered in Washington, said in a press release that “in an unprecedented incident” the child, Zakaria al-Jaber, was killed after the perpetrator identified the boy as a Shiite Muslim.

Read more at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/six-year-old-boy-beheaded-in-saudi-arabia-in-alleged-act-of-sectarian-violence_2795896.html (https://www.theepochtimes.com/six-year-old-boy-beheaded-in-saudi-arabia-in-alleged-act-of-sectarian-violence_2795896.html)

I don't think this got posted and it has been carried by mainstream news outlets. The victim was a Shia boy.

Iran (majority Shia population) has some thing about Israel but other than that, seem less harmful than the Sunni hardcore followers, Wahhabism and the Salafists.  We are novices mostly here.