Posted on 01/03/2003 5:18:37 AM PST by Salgak
A businesswoman who accused three men of gang rape has been arrested in Dubai and faces trial on charges of adultery.
Touria Tiouli, 39, from Limoges, in France, has had her passport confiscated and cannot leave Dubai after being charged under the emirate's Sharia law.
This declares any sexual relationship outside marriage to be illegal.
Mme Tiouli was on a business trip last October when, she alleges, she was raped by three men who offered her a lift home from a nightclub.
She reported the attack immediately to the Dubai police, who after investigating her claim arrested her rather than those she accused.
One of the men admitted to having "consensual sex" with Mme Tiouli, which made her, in the eyes of Dubai's judiciary, guilty of both adultery and making a false rape accusation. She could face up to 18 months in prison. None of the men has been charged.
Mme Tiouli was held in prison for five days and has since been staying at a hotel.
The government has taken her passport and refused to let her leave the country until her trial, which has not yet been scheduled.
Friends in Limoges issued a statement from Mme Tiouli yesterday. It said that when she reported her rape to the police, "I was crying and I saw quickly that my story did not carry any weight with them."
She added: "I am frightened and I am not sleeping." Her 14-year-old son is staying with friends in France.
Mme Tiouli, who is divorced, was born in Morocco but moved to France as a child and is a French citizen.
This was her third visit to Dubai, where she worked on behalf of French luxury goods companies establishing links in the local market and dealing with the French consulate.
When she reported her attack to the police, she believed her status as a French citizen with close ties to the consulate would lead to her being taken seriously.
Sharia law is applied with varying severity in many Muslim countries. In Nigeria, adultery is punishable by stoning to death, while in Dubai a prison sentence is usual.
I won't be alive to see it, neither will as many of them as possible.
Did she actually get into a taxi with Muslims? That would be practically inviting rape even for a male, much less a French female.
So tell me, what will it take for the Arabs to become christianized, and for the Jihad to end?
It ain't a white thing anymore, it's a black thing now.
People are converting to christianity in droves in Africa and Islam is only growing due to its high birth rate.
I believe that the next pope should be from Africa. We need to reach out to Catholics in the Third World, rather than secular Europeans.
All he said was her actions were stoopid and it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that she got raped.
Kinda like if I leave a big tub of paint cantilevered off of a high shelf. I should not expect that everyone in my family is safe from paint falling on them at some point in the near future. They certainly don't deserve it, but it is certainly within the realm of probability that someone is going to get a bucket of paint dropped on their head really soon.
I hope that is true, maybe thats the root cause of this war. The muslims must know it and can't stand the fact that Christianity is spreading.
FOX News did a report a couple of days ago about how the widely perceived notion that Islam is such a fast growing religion, largest (or soon to be) worldwide, etc. is just a bunch of NYTimes Liberal/Dim BS aimed at discrediting Christianity.
I believe the FOX report.
I would agree that this is not a wise move, but if the guys then decide to rape her, her poor judgment doesn't make them any less guilty of the crime.
No I didn't. Reread the thread of conversation. The sub-topic of the thread started by Stallone/Movemout wasn't rape, per se, but understanding that some choices we make endanger ourselves or others, and should arguably be known to endanger ourselves or others. [ I say arguably because I am open to suggestions that she shouldn't have felt any danger
Just like Stallone didn't say that she deserved to be raped just because he figured that she should have known the danger of her choice, I didn't equate rape with a paint covering.
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