{"id":372897,"date":"2018-08-11T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/who-determines-universal-values-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:46:00","slug":"who-determines-universal-values-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/who-determines-universal-values-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Determines \u2018Universal Values\u2019? – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is it any of Canada\u2019s business whether Saudi women have the right to drive?<\/p>\n

Well, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland just made it her business.
Repeatedly denouncing Riyadh\u2019s arrest of women\u2019s rights advocate Samar Badawi, Freeland has driven the two countries close to a break in diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cReprehensible\u201d said Riyadh of Freeland\u2019s tweeted attack. Canada is \u201cengaged in blatant interference in the Kingdom\u2019s domestic affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Saudis responded by expelling Canada\u2019s ambassador and ordering 15,000 Saudi students to end their studies in Canada and barred imports of Canadian wheat. A $15 billion contract to provide armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia may be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who has been backsliding on his promises to modernize the kingdom, appears to have had enough of Western lectures on democratic values and morality.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>A week after Pope Francis denounced the death penalty as always \u201cimpermissible,\u201d Riyadh went ahead and crucified a convicted murderer in Mecca. In Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can get you a death sentence.<\/p>\n

Neither President Donald Trump nor the State Department has taken sides, but The Washington Post has weighed in with an editorial: \u201cHuman Rights Are Everyone\u2019s Business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Ms. Freeland and Canada correctly understand is that human rights \u2026 are universal values, not the property of kings and dictators to arbitrarily grant and remove on a whim. Saudi Arabia\u2019s long-standing practice of denying basic rights to citizens, especially women \u2014 and its particularly cruel treatment of some dissidents \u2014 such as the public lashes meted out to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is it any of Canada\u2019s business whether Saudi women have the right to drive? Well, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland just made it her business.Repeatedly denouncing Riyadh\u2019s arrest of women\u2019s rights advocate Samar Badawi, Freeland has driven the two countries close to a break in diplomatic relations. \u201cReprehensible\u201d said Riyadh of Freeland\u2019s tweeted attack. Canada is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}