Posted on 04/19/2007 12:13:12 AM PDT by XR7
AN Iraqi Muslim man allegedly raped a Muslim woman as "punishment" for her reading the Bible.
Campbelltown District Court in Sydney's west yesterday heard Abdul Reda Al Shawany twice sexually assaulted the woman, a practising Muslim, and then said to her: "Let your Jesus help you."
Al Shawany, 52, has plead not guilty to two counts of having sexual intercourse without consent between September 1 and 27, 2002, at a unit in Warwick Farm.
At the first day of the week-long trial yesterday, Crown prosecutor Michael O'Brien outlined the case and told how the woman allegedly kept the clothes and underwear she was wearing on the day of the alleged rape in a plastic bag for about three years.
The woman initially reported the matter to police but did not want to take it further because she felt "ashamed", Mr O'Brien said. She later changed her mind and Al Shawany, of Hillsdale, was arrested in July 2005 and the woman provided police with the clothing.
The Crown alleges swab samples from the accused had the same DNA as the semen sample taken from the woman's clothing.
"The complainant was born a Muslim and raised a Muslim and was a Muslim all her life," Mr O'Brien said.
He said when the woman came to Australia from the Middle East she began listening to Christian teachers and reading the Bible.
He said the woman - who wears the Muslim hijab - had received threats from members of her faith for reading the Bible but had not converted to Christianity.
It is alleged she met Al Shawany, who she had first met overseas, at Warwick Farm railway station in September 2002 after he told her he had some mail for her from overseas.
Al Shawany allegedly then took her to a Warwick Farm unit and pushed her in the head as she entered.
"She was wearing a hijab. The accused grabbed the hijab, the veil, and pulled it tight across her mouth," Mr O'Brien told the court.
"She fell to the floor and she couldn't scream because she had a hijab tight across her mouth."
Al Shawany allegedly raped the woman and later allegedly said: "Let your Jesus help you."
In a police interview, Al Shawany denied having sexual intercourse with the woman or threatening her.
Al Shawany's barrister Chris Pike told the court his client was a hardworking businessman with close ties to the community who strenuously denied the charges.
"My client is not a zealot," Mr Pike said.
The woman gave evidence in closed court yesterday and is expected to return to the witness stand when the trial before Judge David Knox continues today.
This is the faith they call a "religion of peace". It's yet more evidence that the world is mad.
Let him live by Islamic law. You steal, they cut off your hand. You rape, then they should cut off your ____.
...and then send him to prison with a big, sweaty cellmate named Sweetums.
Yeah, put him in with the dude with the most cigarettes. On the other hand, they say even the pigeons that fly over Karbala fly with one wing over their rear ends......
“My client is not a zealot,” Mr Pike said.
Obviously. He merely raped her. Clearly a casual follower of the Religion of Peace.
If they tried to pull this crap in my town they’d have to rape everyone.
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“”She was wearing a hijab. The accused grabbed the hijab, the veil, and pulled it tight across her mouth,” Mr O’Brien told the court.
“She fell to the floor and she couldn’t scream because she had a hijab tight across her mouth.” “
Good reason not to wear one.
ping.
“She fell to the floor and she couldn’t scream because she had a hijab tight across her mouth.”
Sounds like he has done this before.......
Well, it looks like ‘her Jesus’ is, in fact, helping to protect her in the guise of the prosecutor and lawmen and the US legal system.
Now let us see if his prophet will protect him from retribution.
Well, it looks like ‘her Jesus’ is, in fact, helping to protect her in the guise of the prosecutor and lawmen and the US legal system.
Now let us see if his prophet will protect him from retribution.
This is Australia.
God Bless and Protect this woman, in Jesus’ Name.
When is our President and Congress going to admit it and ban ISLAM from America?
Oh, let me answer that myself......
NEVER!
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“Let him live by Islamic law. You steal, they cut off your hand. You rape, then they should cut off your ____.”
Too bad Islamic law is so pro-man and anti-female the consequences for rape are your sisters get stoned.
Please ping your lists.
Good thing this is Australia. I hope this woman who has read the Bible but not converted has been convinced of which religion is really about peace.
Great post!
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