Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

The Khashoggi case has tested our collective moral intuitions, and we have been found wanting. Saudi Arabia's abject human rights record, and the way it deals with dissenting voices have long been known. In fact, the same could be said for Iran, Russia and China.

Somehow, years of oppressing women, jailing and beheading regime critics and apostates of Islam, and even the atrocities of the Saudi-led bombings in Yemen haven't been good enough reason to express moral indignation, or even threaten Riyadh with sanctions and isolation.

There they are, inexplicably perched on the @UN's Human Rights Council. Indeed, a story of a lone slain journalist is more dramatic than the vague idea of a school bus full of children being targeted by the Saudis. One murder is a story, the others, merely a statistic.