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ACID-ATTACK SAUDI HUSBAND CALLS FOR WIFE'S EARS AND NOSE TO BE CUT
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Posted on 02/01/2007 7:55:14 AM PST by NativeNewYorker

Riyadh (dpa) - A Saudi husband has called for his wife's ears and nose tip to be cut off as punishment for her throwing acid at his face, the state-run al-Watan newspaper reported Thursday.

It said the man's own ears and the tip of his nose had to be surgically removed as a result of the attack. He then underwent cosmetic surgery.

Al-Watan quoted the wife as saying: ``One year ago I had enough of my husband's abuse and harshness, which made me throw the acid at his face.''

A Saudi judge has already sentenced the wife to two years imprisonment - but the husband believes this is not enough, the report said.

The court adjourned the case, waiting to see if the husband insists on the ``eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth'' vengeance. If so. the case would be heard by the general court, the report said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: maritalbliss; rop

1 posted on 02/01/2007 7:55:17 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: NativeNewYorker

I guess in Saudi Arabia it's still an ear for an ear.


2 posted on 02/01/2007 7:57:49 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Well if they all kill each other then our our lives are safer.


3 posted on 02/01/2007 7:58:51 AM PST by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting we can't pretend to win.)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Just yesterday from Canada...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776830/posts

"We consider it completely outside norms to... kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc."

I guess if she were in Canada she would be fine since it only applies to men burning women.
4 posted on 02/01/2007 7:59:35 AM PST by samson1097
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To: NativeNewYorker

WWJBD?


5 posted on 02/01/2007 7:59:48 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: NativeNewYorker
What a wonderful legal system... (/sarc off)

I wonder what John Wayne Bobbitt would have asked for Lorena's sentence.

6 posted on 02/01/2007 7:59:56 AM PST by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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To: x_plus_one

Why can't he just wear a mask and write opera?


7 posted on 02/01/2007 8:00:16 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

Or tour with Michael Jackson?


8 posted on 02/01/2007 8:05:16 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
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To: NonValueAdded

LOL!


9 posted on 02/01/2007 8:07:46 AM PST by wastedyears ( "Gun control is hitting your target accurately." - Richard Marcinko)
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To: NativeNewYorker

More love and tolerance from the religion of peace


10 posted on 02/01/2007 8:09:13 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: massgopguy
Writing Opera is probably not acceptable and is not an approved activity as listed in the koran.

Their handbook for all existence doesn't allow for independent artistic freedom.

11 posted on 02/01/2007 8:10:15 AM PST by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting we can't pretend to win.)
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To: x_plus_one
Othello?
12 posted on 02/01/2007 8:12:55 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: All

All of these Muslim barbaric believers in torture need to be deported, depapered and denounced by the civilized world, put on a slow boat out of the country and never heard from again. This happening is a story out of the dark ages!


13 posted on 02/01/2007 8:14:50 AM PST by cousair
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To: NativeNewYorker

I worked in Saudi Arabia from 81-85 for the Army COE. The Saudi Sharia law is based on eye for an eye. However, what generally results is the payment of "blood money." For example if you ran over a male Saudi, you would have to negotiate with his family to pay "blood money" so you would not be punished. The amount for women is half than for a man, and for an infidel half than for a Muslim. In one case we heard of a man had killed another Saudi and the only surviving family members were minor children. They kept the guy in jail until all the children were of majority age, and they all had to agree to blood money rather than eye for an eye.


14 posted on 02/01/2007 8:29:39 AM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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