"... the execution of Nimr ... was primarily motivated by domestic politics in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the Saudi royal family wanted to appease powerful Sunni clerics angered by the kingdom’s cooperation with the United States in the fight against ISIS, a Sunni jihadist group." http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/iran-saudi-sunni-shiite/422808/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/iran-saudi-sunni-shiite/422808/
Goans, East Africans et al