Saudi court sentences rape victim to 90 lashes

Jerusalem Post ^ | Nov. 2, 2006 | DPA

[Mount Athos]

A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married.

The sentence was passed at the end of a trial in which the al- Qateef high criminal court convicted four Saudis convicted of the rape, sentencing them to prison terms and a total of 2,230 lashes.

The four, all married, were sentenced respectively to five years and 1,000 lashes, four years and 800 lashes, four years and 350 lashes, and one year and 80 lashes.

A fifth, married, man who was stated to have filmed the rape on his mobile phone still faces investigation. Two others alleged to have taken part in the rape evaded capture.

Saudi courts take marital status into account in sexual crimes. A male friend of the rape victim was also sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone with her in the car.

The court heard that the victim and her friend were followed by the assailants to their car, kidnapped and taken to a remote farm, where the raping occurred.

The victim was quoted by Okaz newspaper as saying she had expected harsher penalties for the assailants, especially as they had pleaded not guilty.

Her husband and family said that they would appeal to the court Saturday for harsher penalties for a crime which has shocked public opinion in Saudi Arabia and been the subject of months of debate.

[soozla]

The "Religion of Peace" strikes again............(no pun intended)

[2banana]

Saudi Arabia = The taliban with money...

[Fishtalk]

Saudi courts take marital status into account in sexual crimes.

Why?

[excalibur1701]

Waiting to hear the Democrats comdemn these acts of cruel and unusual punishments.

*silence*

[jackieaxe]

Can we put the intellectual argument for "Diversity" to bed now? I don't see what someone from a society that castrated little girls and beats the crap out of rape victims would bring to the table.

[Tzimisce]

But I was told that Islam respects women.

[brwnsuga]

These people are mentally ill. I cannot phathom how Islamic women defend this culture. They are beaten, rape, killed and mutilated, but they still suggest that Islam has respect for women.... crazy...

[Scotswife]

That'll teach her to leave herself uncovered for roaming cats.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Animals!

[caisson71]

And the Dimocraps want us to "talk" to these people? Is this their "better way"? NOW would not fit well in a Muslim state, and that may not be all that bad.

[Eagle of Liberty]

A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married.

My understanding of reality simply cannot grasp how a society puts up with crap like this. A lib co-worker said that we are in the Middle East forcing our values on these societies that do not want it. I said, "Why don't we ask the women if they enjoy living the way they are forced to live under their current laws."

[NRA1995]

Some of the idiots at DU who are crying about a Bush "theocracy" need to read this....

[BW2221]

John Kerry (also known as John Carry to the U.S. Military) may say something about it ... before he doesn't.

[GOPJ]

A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married.

Hey, it's a step up - better than having the child buried up to her waist and stoned to death... Sometimes a judge will rape a female child who has committed some so-called crime ( it's a crime to be alone in a room with a male that's not a relative) before killing her. The rape is to make sure the child can't get into heaven... Allah might take pity on a virgin... These folks are sick and they're recruiting in our prisons.

[Rakkasan1]

sounds like Borak should be from Saudi.

[doc30]

But I was told that Islam respects women

As long as they are virtuous. By being alone in a car with a friend, she was obviously an immoral whore who deserved to be rapes and is likely being punished for her lack of virtue and for dishonoring her family by being promiscuous with those men. Good girls don't do things like that, at least according to muslim values.

[Eagle of Liberty]

But I was told that Islam respects women.

Yea, they respect them so much and have so little trust in other men in their society that they must hide their women away and shroud every inch of them in clothing.

That is it! If they are so religious and pure, why is it that they do not have more self-control over their own actions? They must hide the women because they do not trust themselves or other men? Wonderful society. I mean praying five times a day doesn't drive some morals into your head?

[The_Reader_David]

Maybe there are legends, or even actual histories, that suggest the treatment of women was worse in pagan Arabia before Mohammed.

Of course, we know the status and treatment of women suffered a severe decline when Christian regions were Islamized, not that the feminists give Christianity credit for being the first religion to raise the status of women by abolishing first polygamy and later concubinage.

[TheCrusader]

"These people are mentally ill evil. I cannot phathom how Islamic women defend this culture. They are beaten, rape, killed and mutilated, but they still suggest that Islam has respect for women.... crazy evil, just plain evil..."

There is no psychological diagnosis for these folks, no medicine and no 'therapy'. They worship evil and they reap what they sow, period.