It's become pretty clear Saudi Arabia hands out no shortage of death sentences. With 85 executions so far, they're on track to having a record year. Last week, we showed you the advertisement the Kingdom sent out in search of more executioners, and then we showed you what that job actually entails.
Scary stuff. This week, though, it's not the Saudi government that's dolling out calls for death but the country's Twitter community. And it's over a YouTube video released by a Saudi man with a long track record of rants on social media. In this one though, we watch the man slam Saudi Arabia's King Salman, the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen and then (randomly) ask for more brothels in Mecca.
But it seems the most important bit for Saudi Twitter is what happens at the end, when the man brings a copy of the Quran, throws it on the floor and tears it apart.
By now, most of the online community in Saudi has come to the conclusion that the man is mentally ill, and based off his rambling YouTube rants, this may not be far off. Still, this hasn't stopped people on Twitter from calling for his death. On Sunday, this hashtag was trending in the KSA:
#المطالبه_باعدام_سعودي_سب_الله, roughly translated to 'calling for the death of a Saudi who cursed God.'
Even some Daesh sympathizers chimed in, like this user below.
A lot of Saudis were more reasonable though, with some users coming to the man's defense.
