Posted on 11/22/2006 4:55:09 AM PST by IrishMike
AL-AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia (Nov. 21) - When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined the judge would punish her - and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.
The story of the Girl of Qatif, as the alleged rape victim has been called by the media here, has triggered a rare debate about Saudi Arabia's legal system, in which judges have wide discretion in punishing a criminal, rules of evidence are shaky and sometimes no defense lawyers are present.
The result, critics say, are sentences left to the whim of judges. These include one in which a group of men got heavier sentences for harassing women than the men in the Girl of Qatif rape case or three men who were convicted of raping a boy. In another, a woman was ordered to divorce her husband against her will based on a demand by her relatives.
In the case of the Girl of Qatif, she was sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married - a crime in this strictly segregated country - at the time that she was allegedly attacked and raped by a group of other men.
In the sleepy, Shiite village of al-Awwamiya on the outskirts of the eastern city of Qatif, the 19-year-old is struggling to forget the spring night that changed her life. Her hands tremble, her dark brown eyes are lifeless. Her sleep is interrupted by a replay of the events, which she describes in a barely audible whisper.
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All, read this story.
This is what libs want for America.
Bump
Nothing like another uplifting "religion of peace" story before Thanksgiving to make ya feel good all over about Muslims and their cult.
(/extreme sarcasm)
'scuse me, I tink I'm going to be sick.
I wonder with the Hags'n'Bitches of NOW have to say about this?
Blame the victim!
I know the Judicial branch in this Country is bad (Liberal).
But it ain't this bad.
Thank the Lord for the Internet.
I doubt we'll hear much about this in the MSM.
And they call this Moooooooooooooooooooslim justice !!!
This is just one instance we know about.
It is high time human rights groups start dumping all their resources into exposing muslim justice.
The same thing they (and EVERY other women's lib groups from around the world) have been saying: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
The sound of their silence is deafening.
Animals.
And we can't drill in ANWAR because of some nutty enviromentalists.
Crazy, man.
Cue the Twilight Zone backround music.
A whole other world.
Hey being in a car with a man not your husband is illegal in that country. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time little missy.
This is why War on Terror is more important than War on Gay Marriage or Anti Abortion. Afterall, if we lose in War on Terror, the Islamofacists will surely ban gay marriage and abortion.
OK - Show of hands - who thinks sharia law is a good idea?
Why then do the libs want us to lose the War on Terror? That would mean the end to their two most important platforms.
And yet PLEASE don't throw out the baby with the dirty water, but something is to be learned here. What is the rape index of Saudi Arabia?, and let's DO admit that there IS something to some woman who put themselves in harm's path by their provocative dress, language, haunts and habits. I would like to get the statistics, I'd bet there are fewer rapes in Saudi Arabia than there are in Atlanta? But then again, if a woman gets beaten for rape, she wouldn't want to report it then, would she?
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