Posted on 11/22/2006 1:05:22 PM PST by MooseMan
AL-AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia - When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined a 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 in Saudi Arabia, has triggered a rare debate about the country'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. "The big shock came when the judge sentenced me and the man to 90 lashes each," said the woman. The sentence was handed down as part of the rape trial. Lashes are usually spread over several days, dealt around 50 at a time. Judges in the case referred The Associated Press to the Justice Ministry when asked about the sentencing. The ministry said Tuesday that rape could not be proved.
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I knew I should have read on down the thread! (See my previous post.)
Can anyone imagine there would be 4 muslim men who'd be:
A. willing to testify on her behalf.
B. actually be a witness to a rape.
C. and if accomplices, be willing to come forward.
Not only that but to think there would actually be 4 who'd sit there passively as the rape was taking place.
Um, yeah! I wonder just how many rapes result in any type of conviction of the male perpetrators.
O and dont forget killing your self and/or son/daughter to kill anything you might disagree with or dislike. It is a complete mystery to me why so many Americans dont realize what is going on over there in the middle east
"NOW!"
And we won't hear a peep from them, either!;)
But let us put pink panties on the head of one of these freaks, and that's considered sadistic torture......
Sounds like for riding in a car with a man not her husband...
I believe four witnesses to the actual penetration are required to prove a charge of rape under Shari'a law. And allah t'allah (allah knows best).
"And yet the LEFT of this country overlooks this sort of behavior as they do the crap handed out by every dictator on Earth."
Of course...they even want to ignore how journalists in other countries are being murdered...they still want to believe Putin is a nice guy and Bush is the devil.
"I would bet that there is a number of American men, not Muslims, who would like a system where they rule exclusively and women are just property......read here on freeperland long enough and you run into them......"
Good point.
"how many men if told the govt would allow them to have many wives and beat the ones they don't like, take their property, etc would find some rationalization to do it?......"
I'm afraid the number would be much higher than my estimate.
Gee, I hope the newfangled Muslim feminists speak right up and tell us again how Islam "isn't oppressive to women."
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