Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights

Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by rayiner on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:45AM (#16015865)

Saudi criminal laws aren’t codified. In theory, the Quran is the source of law, with various royal decrees layered on top. In the Quran, it’s actual homosexual acts that are the crime. So simply being homosexual should not, in theory, get you in trouble. But in practice, the CPVPV has wide latitude. People have been arrested for flying a rainbow flag: https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/.... People have also been arrested for their social media activity: https://www.google.com/amp/www.washingtonblade.com/2016/03/2...

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by unbeli on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:06PM (#16016084)

This is bullshit, of course. He wasn't killed for waving a flag. He was killed because he was part of a violent group attacking Israeli soldiers.

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by will4274 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:29PM (#16016777)

You're being downvoted for injecting a political topic (the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) into an unrelated article on chess and Saudi Arabia, not because of "narrative"

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by mcguire on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:15PM (#16017668)

...into an unrelated political topic.

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by sshumaker on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:51PM (#16016476)

This is a war the Palestinians cannot win conventionally, so it is heavily waged through the court of public opinion. Hamas’s bread and butter is exploiting tragedies for propaganda wins, which is why they fire rockets from schools and hospitals.

The Israelis for their part have strict engagement protocols, although the cynic in me believes avoiding PR issues is at least as big of a factor as avoiding loss of life. From that realpolitik standpoint, they screwed up here.

The fact of the matter is - if you are part of violent protests, even if you are just sitting and waving a flag, you’re taking a risk.

The fact that the propaganda machine is now spinning is business as usual, sadly. And gets neither side closer to a resolution.

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by aptidude187 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:00PM (#16016547)

I think the real fact here is that whatever Israel does, no matter how wicked and evil or what the evidence shows, you get downvoted to oblivion for stating the facts because they speak against the actions of Israel. Hackernews seems like a slightly more civilized version of reddit, but when it comes to politics, the insane bias shines through.

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by dang on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:50PM (#16017483)

It is not a topic that can be discussed either rationally or decently most places on the internet.

You bear some responsibility for this too. Coming out charging with flamebait, then blaming others when you get a flamewar, is incongruent. That's independent, by the way, of whether your underlying views are right or wrong, or even whether your indignation is justified.

We ban accounts that use HN primarily for political battle, regardless of which politics. So if you'd like to keep commenting here, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site, i.e. intellectual curiosity, to heart.

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