Saudi Girl given 200 lashes..for being raped.

[Thunder]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311848,00.html

And these guys are our allies. How absolutely disgusting.

[Matilda]

And given a prison sentence.

Heartbreaking and appalling.

[WildCat]

This thread was first (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=98943).

[Puppycow]

Sharia: coming soon to a court near you!

[FireGarden]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311848,00.html

And these guys are our allies. How absolutely disgusting.

It's an awful story, but she's not being punished for being raped.

As the other thread said,
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,256980,00.html

The woman's ordeal began a year ago when she was blackmailed into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the desert kingdom, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper.

She met the man at a shopping mall and, after driving off together, the blackmailer's car was stopped by two other cars bearing men wielding knives and meat cleavers.

She's being punished for being alone with the guy described as her blackmailer.

And the increase in punishment is for appealing through the media. Her lawyer is in trouble too, according to the BBC link I put in the other thread.

Mad, twisted and sick. But still not well described by the thread title.

[a_unique_person]

It's bad either way.

[Beerina]

But the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," a court source told the Arab News.

Yes. That is 100% the purpose of freedom of speech. You got it, ass. You understand.

We're coming for you, your inferior culture that does things like this.

[FireGarden]

Yes. That is 100% the purpose of freedom of speech. You got it, ass. You understand.

We're coming for you, your inferior culture that does things like this.

Actually, the Saudi government is your ally.
You are there to defend them from their own people.

[Fnord]

All I can think is "Poor girl. Where is she now, and is she being well cared for?"

200 lashes ... ever seen "Passion Of The Christ?" ... He got only 30...

[FireGarden]

All I can think is "Poor girl. Where is she now, and is she being well cared for?"

200 lashes ... ever seen "Passion Of The Christ?" ... He got only 30...

Write to your political rep.
It's not too late.

[Darth Rotor]

Write to your political rep.
It's not too late.
Sure it is, too late. No one can find Jesus' body to give it 170 more lashes. :D

DR

[Fnord]

Write to your political rep.
It's not too late.


The last seven times I wrote to my 40th congressional district representative, all I got back was a form letter thanking me for being a concerned citizen, and a return envelope for my contribution to the representative's election campaign fund.

It's already too late when they stop paying attention.

[Oliver]

Stop whining ... The Terrorists and Evildoers are in "non-ally countries" .... :rolleyes:

[FireGarden]

The last seven times I wrote to my 40th congressional district representative, all I got back was a form letter thanking me for being a concerned citizen, and a return envelope for my contribution to the representative's election campaign fund.

It's already too late when they stop paying attention.

Well that's a shame.
Most of the time my MP responds. When I e-mailed him about this back in March, he said he would write to the Saudi Ambassador. If he did so and got a reply, then he didn't tell me.

And I've written again and told him not to give up.

According to her lawyer, the lady's going to appeal again. I don't know who will represent her, since the first guy "has been suspended from the case and faces a disciplinary session."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7098480.stm

A lawyer for a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six-months in jail says the punishment contravenes Islamic law.

[...] Her lawyer has been suspended from the case and faces a disciplinary session.

Abdel Rahman al-Lahem told the BBC Arabic Service that the sentence was in violation of Islamic law:

"My client is the victim of this abhorrent crime. I believe her sentence contravenes the Islamic Sharia law and violates the pertinent international conventions," he said.

"The judicial bodies should have dealt with this girl as the victim rather than the culprit."

The lawyer also said that his client his will appeal against the decision to increase her punishment.

[Beerina]

It's just an equally-valid, equally arbitrary culture. Who are we to say what's right and wrong in what's considered proper punishment? Another culture might validly conclude it's proper for women to not dangle their stuff out in front of men, tempting them, the same way we consider it wrong to tempt bears with marshmallows.

[Fnord]

Another culture might validly conclude it's proper for women to not dangle their stuff out in front of men, tempting them, the same way we consider it wrong to tempt bears with marshmallows.


Welcome to Islam. Here's you chador...

[Thunder]

Islam assumes that men are uncontrolable sexual beats who cant control themselves, and its not their fault. Its those slutty women, who dare to show their arms and legs, that entice the weak men.

Such crap.

[Oliver]

Islam assumes that men are uncontrolable sexual beats who cant control themselves, and its not their fault. Its those slutty women, who dare to show their arms and legs, that entice the weak men.

Such crap.


I agree - but what can we do about it anyway? And besides of
that - the female circumcision is a lot more ugly and important
issue. Too bad that Governments who are supposedly trying to
make the world a better place, never address it ...