Posted on 04/15/2004 5:28:55 PM PDT by 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."
Christians don't practice honor killing as a religious tenet.
But if they did, I would say the same thing. Christians don't do the nailbomb on a busload of children...
Islam does.
only fools believe in the myth of moderate Islam. you need to get some new definitions into your vocabulary:
Mosque = Terrorist Barracks
Red Crescent Ambulance = Munitions Supply Truck
Radical Muslim = REAL Muslim who follows the Koran
Moderate Muslim = A Trojan horse who quietly smiles and nods his head at the terrorists
Koran = a call to terror, murder, oppression, slavery, misogyny and backward culture
Infidel = all non Muslims and Muslims who are not on jihad (all doomed to die)
Holy Lands = all lands unfortunate enough to be or ever have been under the heavy yoke of Muslim terror, murder, oppression, slavery, misogyny
Islamic Pride = an insanely jealous hatred for every other culture that has left Islam groveling in its seventh-century dust.
CAIR = Crying Arabic Islamic Retrogrades
Minaret = Satan's jukebox
Burkha = Misogynistic Mobile Women's Prison
Rape = something the guys get to do, especially to those hottie infidel chicks! (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
Modern Technology = "Huh? Oh yes, that stuff the evil infidels make and maintain for us to use and kill them."
Allah = the Moon God, whose most important representative here on earth is that meteorite worshiped in Mecca
Little Boys = a man's pleasure machines
Paradise = a giant rape orgy for you - if you die while ruthlessly murdering innocent unsuspecting infidel women and children
U.S. Armed Forces = things to run away from or kill with booby-traps, unless you can take a cheap shot at them and then hide behind women and children or hide in a Mosque.
Christian Church = firewood
Synagogue = firewood
Buddhist Temple = firewood
Hindu Temple = firewood
Confucian Church = firewood
Jewish Restaurant = Bomb Demolition Depot
Islam cannot be pacified, and must be eradicated or recreated in the apostate format. Islamic apologists are wasting their breath on me. (special thanks for definitions courtesy of: broadsword)
A key element of true conservatism is individualism. And when a Christian or Jew does something evil, it's accepted that that individual is evil. But whenever any Muslim anywhere commits evil, all the idiots crawl out of the woodwork with their knee-jerk "religion of peace" pings, as though the acts of an individual Muslim condemns hundreds of millions (a billion?) worldwide.
It's sickening how conservatism has been corrupted and dummied-down these past few years. 15 years ago, conservatism used to be mostly rational, civil, intelligent. 9/11 did not "change everything," but it certainly did much to change to character of conservatism.
Bush, at least, claims we are not at war with Islam. But you wouldn't know it from all his Muslim-bashing "conservative" supporters (who trash the very essence of a rational, individualist conservatism).
Yes, I know it's the Dixie Chicks, but had they kept their left-wing mouths shut I wouldn't have had to give away my CD collection!
Depending on your sources, you have an estimated 5-10% of Muslims worldwide who have declared war on the "infidels" and "non believers".
Scores of Christians are being killed DAILY throughout Africa, Indonesia, The Sub Continent and the Middle East. These Christians are being killed because they are Christian and refuse to accept Islam.
Many of us here at Freerepublic have noticed an extremely disturbing trend. And that is the refusal of the so-called Moderate Muslims and their leaders worldwide to condemn these acts. Not only do they NOT condemn these acts of violence and killings being commited in the name of Islam, but in many case actually call for it and encourage it, they celebrate the deaths of Christians and Jews.
Perhaps you forgot the cheering on the streets of Gaza, Egypt and other Muslim countries on 9/11.
We are not condemning Muslims worldwide, they are condemning themselves with their deafening silence.
What you are seeing here at Freerepublic is not knee-jerk reactions, but a grassroots movement of individuals coming to the realization the that we are facing a collective threat to our very existance. People are coming to the realization that this "religion" or "idealogy" is threat to us all collectively.
Your philosophical arguement concering conservatism and individualism is correct but you don't seem to see the forest through the trees. The "forest" is that we are all in the same boat facing a menace that wants to sink our boat and kill us collectively.
I wonder how many FReepers know American Muslims. I've known three, having met them here in Los Angeles well before 9/11. Two were Persian, one was Burmese. All were secular, modern in dress and manners. Two were law students, and passed the California bar.
Also here in Los Angeles, many Persian/Muslim shops/gas stations, etc. flew American flags after 9/11.
I also recall reading an internet story (maybe on Ananova) about Egyptian/Muslim actor Omar Sharif talking about throwing a big bar mitzvah for his Jewish grandchild.
Modern, westernized Muslims are out there.
And even if Muslims decided to try to use the media to stand up and say "violence is wrong", "terrorism is wrong", etc, do you really think the media will either broadcast them, or report exactly what they said without manipulation?
From what we can see out here, the US media is almost entirely biased - your average Joe Shmuck out in the suburbs (or trailer park) has No Idea of what's really going on in the world because the media is totally one-sided.
DO you honestly think that if Muslims got up to say anything that the media _wouldn't_ twist their words?
The media are bent and twisted - criminally so, in my not at all humble opinion - no wonder Muslims want nothing to do with it.
Kim...
And of course, all people who call themselves "Christian" are perfect and no Christian _ever_ killed anyone, did they?
When Christianity was around 1400 years old, what were Christians doing? Oh yeah - crusades, inquisitions, etc.
Killing Muslims and other Christians alike. Because the masses were uneducated and the leaders were idiots.
Islam is currently about 1400 years old. And what do they have? Uneducated masses (in much LARGER populations than the Christian Middle Ages), Loony leaders (with much more money and power and weapons than in the Christian Middle Ages) AND an enemy that appears to have all the money, all the power, all the influence and all the ignorance of culture and history that's probably necessary to have in order to at least be a fair and generous Single World Superpower.
So really, I don't think it's any surprise the world is where it is today.
Kim...
See
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=22022002-054712-6377r
for example of women beating other women.
Saudi princess gets passport back
Published 2/22/2002 6:01 PM
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- An Orlando judge on Friday temporarily returned the passport of a Saudi Arabian princess arrested in December for allegedly beating her live-in maid.
Princess Buniah al-Saud, niece of King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, promised Circuit Judge Richard Conrad she would return to stand trial.
The 41-year-old princess has been studying English at the University of Central Florida. She has been free on $2,500 bond while awaiting an as-yet-unknown court date on charges of aggravated battery for the alleged attack on Ismiyati Mermet Suryono, 36, of Indonesia.
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