Posted on 03/20/2007 11:25:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
A man who ripped out his wife's eyes in a fit of rage was sentenced by a French court to 30 years behind bars on Tuesday.
Mohamed Hadfi, 31, tore out his 23-year-old wife Samira Bari's eyes following a heated argument in their apartment in the southern French city of Nimes in July 2003 after she refused to have sex with him.
Bari, who had demanded a divorce before the attack, was permanently blinded.
Hadfi, a Moroccan, initially fled to Germany. He was arrested and sent back to France, where he was indicted for "acts of torture and barbarity leading to a permanent disability".
Prosecutor Dominique Tourette demanded that he be sentenced to 30 years in prison, two-thirds of which must be served in full, calling the defendant a "diabolic torturer".
Once his sentence is served, Hadfi will be deported and barred from ever returning to France.
His lawyer Jean-Pierre Cabanes meanwhile insisted there were extenuating circumstances.
"This is the result of a marriage that was arranged, not chosen," he said, pointing to the gulf separating his client, who came from southern Morocco, and his young wife, who had grown up in France.
Cabanes begged the jury for leniency, claiming his client's action "appeared to stem from a mental illness".
>>"....appeared to stem from a mental illness".<<
Of course he has a mental illness. He's Muslim!
What better way to put your uppity wife in her place than blinding her. That'll teach her to deny you sex. I'm sure the human rights and women's rights groups will be all over this one./s
"Alternatively, a meat hook under a rib, and then use him as a tower clock pendulum above a small fire"
Now, I call that "creative" sentencing!
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"appeared to stem from a mental illness"
Got to agree, Islam IS a mental illness... KILL him anyway!
If he was 'over there' he would get ripping out of eyes, loss of hands, and then death.
haha! How much would one of those cost with simply a mute button?
:P
(I'm actually single at the moment, but how many men do I know who would pay for one of those...)
"I see the dateline is in Austrailia"
I don't think they're allowed to report this kind of story in France, possibly Europe. It seems to have a lot of that "Mohamed" and "Samira" going on in this particular story.
You'd definitely want a different model since that Muslim remote has a little button on the back that says "Blow yourself to hell," and since there's no shaheed safeguard on it, you're bound to do it sooner or later.
Oh, btw, had a brief but insightful conversation with an Arab the other day. My wife had had noticed all the local Arab men wear white, and the women wear black, and asked me why.
The guy I asked was dressed like most of them, in pure white ghutra (apart from the iqal (the fanbelt around his head), and had his wife (at least one of them) in tow slightly behind him who was in fullback abayya, as many women in the Gulf States wear. I had heard this was just "tradition" before, but wanted to get to the historical roots of it, and wondered if he had a different take.
At first, he just came out with the standard "tradition" reply, but when pushed as to the significance of the colors for dress, he replied to me (in a thick accent) "You [should] understand, white is the color of purity, it is clean, you understand?"
So naturally I asked why the women (in their male dominated society) traditionally did not wear white, but black instead.
Sensing I was setting him up and he was falling into the trap head first, he quietly muttered a minor arabic curse word under his breath, and walked off.
Quran:
Narrated 'Aisha:The things which annual prayer were mentioned before me (and those were): a dog, a donkey and a woman. I said, "You [Mohammad] have compared us (women) to donkeys and dogs.
Gun Rights, that's all......
That's simply mysoginy in its most primitive form, is it not?
I recently came across this:
Gang-rape victim faces lashesFrom correspondents in Riyadh March 06, 2007 01:00am Article from: Agence France-Presse
A SAUDI woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother was sentenced to 90 lashes - for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported.
In an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said she was blackmailed a year ago into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom.
After driving off together from a shopping mall near her home, the woman and the man were stopped and abducted by a gang of men wielding kitchen knives who took them to a farm where she was raped 14 times by her captors.
Five men were arrested for the rape and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years by a panel of judges in the eastern city of Qatif, near the woman's hometown.
But the judges also decided to sentence the woman, identified by the newspaper only as “G,” and the man to lashes for being alone together in the car.
Unrelated men and women are forbidden from interacting in public in Saudi Arabia, which strictly enforces Islamic Sharia law.
“G” said one of the judges told she was lucky not to have been given jail time. “I was shocked at the verdict. I couldn't believe my ears,” said the woman, who has appealed against her sentence.
The woman also told the paper she tried to commit suicide because of her ordeal and was beaten by her younger brother because the rape had brought shame on their family.
Fuziyah al-Ouni, described as an activist by the paper, said she was outraged by the case. “By sentencing her to 90 lashes they are sending a message that she is guilty. No rape victim is guilty,” she said.
There are severe legal restrictions on women in Saudi Arabia, including a strict dress code required outside the home and a ban on driving.
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Good to hear from you.
I'm convinced that's how their brains are actually wired.
His illness is islam
Your graphic is funny!
You forgot the "Kill Jews" button.
Another atrocity by another muzzie. Typical.
If this were an isolated incident then we wouldn't hear about similar crimes time and time again.
Yup, you got it.
IMHO, the native Jordanians (not the recent "refugees") and Syrians are the ones who treat their women with the most respect. Relatively speaking, of course.
Saudis are the most primitive life form I can think of.... I've had loads of run messing with them lately, but that's another story, for another time. ;o)
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