Let It Be Seen

 

Khalid Albaih, March 14, 2022.

At the core of cartooning is the exposure what is otherwise not visual in character or not visually available, i.e. it is taking place were no one gets to document it.

81 humans were beheaded in a mass execution in one day on Saturday in Saudi Arabia. 81 are a show off of power.

My own country can attest to what that signifies. 80 were beheaded in Stockholm in 1520. It is half a millennium ago and it is an act of disgrace to this day. 

Oh, and Mohammed bin Salman: The Danish king lost his Swedish crown and soon after his Danish one too as a result of this.

Khalid Albaih lets the act be documented on the green of the Saudi flag and carried out with the flag's ceremonial sabre. This is the deed by which the Saudi state has chosen to define itself. The bloodied headless neck confronts the world. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time", as Maya Angelou affirmed.

The cartoon shown is courtesy of Khalid Albaih and must not be shown without acknowledging his name.