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.

[semaj]

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

Better yet. If you want to avoid rape, don't leave the house at all. Oh yeah, and be sure to draw the curtains and lock the doorsand windows you never know when a wild animal might be in the vicinity.

[Chances Are]

What was his response?

CA....

[Roccus]

Kinda like Germany in the 30's, I guess.

[incredulous joe]

"Kinda like Germany in the 30's, I guess" No. The Germans were civilized compared to the Islamofascists. Additionally, a lot of the people that Hitler put in charge of his nasty business were simply psychopaths.

I have compared the "blood lust" of the mad muzzies to the Empirical Japanese, which were featured in the book "Flags of our Fathers".

Don't know how they come off in the movie, but I'm sure they probably couldn't put all of the disgusting things that the Japanese did on the pacific rim and during it's incurssions into the Asian mainland in a movie.

At any rate, all of them; the Nazi's, Tojo's Kamikazis and the Islamofascists are all evil.

[Eagle of Liberty]

First he reluctantly agreed and then he said, "But I heard most of them feel more comfortable wearing their burka."

[Mr Rogers]

Actually, this sort of thing has NOT happened in Europe for the last several thousand years...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[Scotswife]

"Better yet. If you want to avoid rape, don't leave the house at all. Oh yeah, and be sure to draw the curtains and lock the doorsand windows you never know when a wild animal might be in the vicinity."

There ya go...she should have known that these married muslim men were incapable of behaving like decent human beings. They were defenseless in the presence of her charms.