Another Saudi Face: TV Presenter Is Beaten Up By Husband

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-16-2004 | Robun Gedye

[blam]

Another Saudi face: TV presenter is beaten up by husband

By Robin Gedye
(Filed: 16/04/2004)

A Saudi television presenter who was beaten unconscious by her husband has allowed pictures of her severely battered face to be published in an attempt to highlight the abuse of women in the kingdom.

Rania al-Baz, who works for Saudi Arabia's state television's Channel One, is having a series of operations for 13 fractures to her face. She said she wanted to break the taboo on domestic violence.

"I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of women in Saudi Arabia," she added.

Her case has attracted outrage from the handful of women's groups that exist in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed al-Fallatta, her husband, an out-of-work singer, has disappeared and is wanted by police on charges of attempted murder.

According to Rania's mother, al-Fallatta beat his wife regularly. This time he was infuriated because she answered the telephone. "She told me she begged him not to hit her and he replied, 'Hit you? I am not going to hit you, I am going to kill you.' "

Rania told her mother: "He took his hands off my throat long enough for me to say, 'There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is His prophet' three times, then I surrendered my soul to Allah. Mohammed then went on to choke and beat me some more until I lost consciousness."

He bundled her up in a sheet and put her in a van. When Rania regained consciousness, she thought he was taking her to be buried.

Her mother said: "When he heard her moaning and trying to speak he must have panicked because he took her to hospital where he told staff she was the victim of a road accident and was dead."

Dima al-Sulaiman, the director of the National Home Health Foundation, said the abuse of women "is a very common problem in Saudi Arabia where maltreatment starts from childhood".

Dina Arif, a businesswoman, said: "Saudi men think that violent behaviour is the way to solve problems."

[Pearls Before Swine]

He took his hands off my throat long enough for me to say, 'There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is His prophet' three times"

There. What a decent fellow.

[dandelion]

We should be praying for this woman - she is literally taking her life in her hands...

[Numbers Guy]

Religion of peace!!!!

[cyborg]

Note to self: deep breath 'the saudis are our friends' another deep breath 'saudis are our friends'....

[Mr Rogers]

The book "Princess" by Sasson comes to mind.

[Redcloak]

"It's a religion of peace"...

[Rollee]

Oh, good God. Look at her before and after! I am going to be sick. Arab men are cowards, and I hope one day their women rise up and give them what they have coming to them.

[Falcon4.0]

They certainly don't deserver Woman of such Beauty.

[ml/nj]

ping

[Robert_Paulson2]

Rania al-Baz, who works for Saudi Arabia's state television's Channel One, is having a series of operations for 13 fractures to her face. She said she wanted to break the taboo on domestic violence.

"I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of women in Saudi Arabia," she added

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13 fractures for allah's little man.
What an evil man, following an even more evil religion.

Islam MUST BE... MUST BE destroyed.
Every shrine, rock, minaret, mosque and imam must lose all trust and faith of the people who ignorantly seek the only god they never want to meet... satan.

[dandelion]

Evidently some in Saudi Arabia are beginning to see the light...

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=43112&d=14&m=4&y=2004&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

JEDDAH, 14 April 2004 - Princess Sarah Al-Anqari, the wife of Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed, will pay for all further surgery for Rania Al-Baz, who was savagely beaten by her husband earlier this month, Arab News has learned.

Princess Sarah has ordered my transfer to King Faisal Specialist Hospital where all my surgery will be done at her expense, Rania said yesterday.

She said Jawhara Al-Anqari, a senior member of the National Human Rights Association, visited Rania at her hospital bed on Monday and said that she will personally see to it that justice is done and that Rania's rights are protected.

"I feel that I have been reborn, said Rania in an interview with Arab News from her parents' home, where she is recovering from a brutal beating at the hands of her husband. "I feel that I have been given a second chance at life."

[Eala]

the abuse of women "is a very common problem in Saudi Arabia where maltreatment starts from childhood".

Raphael Patai, in his excellent book "The Arab Mind," notes this as a very old issue deeply rooted in Arab culture.

[cyborg]

I would not object to a MOAB casting a shadow across Saudi Arabia, but I know it will never happen. I'd rather see Sudan get carpet bombed, but that won't happen either.

[zarf]

Arab men?

Come down to rural Tennessee and see some of the beauty advice men can dish out.

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, good God. Look at her before and after! I am going to be sick.

You're right. In the after picture, she is showing hair under her head-covering. Such immodesty is disgusting.

/end sarcasm

[Free ThinkerNY]

Those pictures and the words of her husband should be sent to every Leftist "women's rights" group in America.

[tet68]

"Saudi men think that violent behaviour is the way to solve problems."

YES, WE KNOW!!

[Alouette]

"Saudi men think that violent behaviour is the way to solve problems."

But only against women and the helpless.

U.S. Marines can solve their problems for them.

[BlackVeil]

Notice how she is a successful tv presenter, and the husband is an out-of-work singer?

I bet he is a no-hoper type, who cannot succeed, and is jealous of the wife's success. No doubt they started off as a couple both working in the entertainment sector, but she got ahead in life, and he did not.

Pyschologists who give court reports in cases of wife beating, and wife murder, often cite the wife's job as a "cause" of the crime, if the man is unemployed.