6, January 2019 Shame on Netflix
Responding to pressure from Saudi Arabia,
Netflix blocked an episode of its show “Patriot Act” with Hasan Minhaj which
was critical of Saudi Arabia’s role in the killing of dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
Hasan Minhaj, a Muslim, deserves credit for
firing both barrels of his monologue laced with humor at one of the world’s
most brutal regimes. The thin skinned MBS cannot tolerate criticism much like
the present occupant of the White House. Anxious to deflect the intense
worldwide revulsion of Khashoggi’s killing,
MBS instructed a Saudi prosecutor to seek the death penalty for five of the
eleven “suspects.” Oh, what cruel irony. The man who likely ordered the killing of Khashoggi h is willing to send
5 men to a certain death!
In the roughly 18-minute now-censored
"Patriot Act" monologue, Minhaj also took aim at the Al Saud family
and its vast wealth, saying: "Saudi Arabia is crazy. One giant family
controls everything." Minhaj is right and we are crazy to support such a
regime which is still living in the Stone Age where women are denigrated and
living in dungeons and tortured for having the temerity to demand the right to
drive.
Human rights group Amnesty International said
Saudi Arabia's censorship of Netflix is "further proof of a relentless
crackdown on freedom of expression."
This also speaks
volumes of the moral decay of the Republican Party who have not raised a single
voice in opposition to President Trump who is obsessed with Saudi Arabia and
their vast oil wealth. Perhaps his tax returns may uncover the mystery of this
relationship.
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