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.
Under most variations of sharia several witnesses are required to convict a man of rape. So a woman who swears a complaint of rape without the requisite witnesses has just confessed to adultery. Add to the mix that most Middle Eastern men believe Western women are sluts just waiting to be jumped because of what they've seen in the movies and media. Women are targets and the men know there is almost no chance they'll be caught. Barbaric, but true.
The humane thing for Western businesses and governments is to educate women being posted to countries ruled under sharia law and assign a male minder or in some countries a bodyguard.
That'll be a relief to most rapists in this country. How...Clintonian. "You see, it wasn't really rape, because she was doing something stupid/wearing too much makeup/making me spring wood." Thanks for making all their lives easier by letting them know that if they could find something that the woman did that was a a bad judgement call, it wasn't rape. You know, she was asking for it.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! You didn't read the thread at all, did you? You get the nomination for the best non-sequitor of the month!
I recall reading that under Islamic law it takes the testimony of 5 women to overcome the word of one man.
She hasn't got a chance.
Sad, but true. Maybe the French government can do a deal.
Say, the French could threaten to call them "unilateralists" if they don't release her!
Christianized? I don't even want that. The basic problem is they are fanatics. Turning them into another type of fanatic is no solution (Christianity is mostly over it, but read some history. Arabs in the program would cause a throwback to inquistions.)
MTV will get 'em (their kids anyhow).
Ok, and what was I saying was "not rape per se" ?
Maybe not, but the woman's continuing nightmare is being provided via sharia (Muslim law), and thus whether or not she was raped originally by "Muslims" -- and most likely she was -- she's certainly being raped by Muslims *now* (via the Muslim judiciary).
Ok, here's what happens when you read the whole sentence (emphasis added to try and make it easier for you to find the subject and verb and so forth:
The sub-topic of the thread started by Stallone/Movemout wasn't rape, per se,
So, you see, I wasn't saying anything about what level of crime occurred in the story posted, I was responding to another poster who doesn't read all of the messages she is responding to and then levels stupid accusations that reveal, well, that she doesn't read all of the thread that she jumps into the middle of.
It's all there. Read it. I am at a loss to explain how you could read that (if you really did) and think that I was saying that the woman wasn't raped.
I will admit that I scanned your comment quickly and that my reply should have been directed at Russ.
However, my reply to you still stands. Eat me.
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They are not going to join the 21st or even 20th century until we have had a bloody world war against islam on the level of the war we had with Japanese imperialism and German Nazism. And that may not even be enough.
Every time I hear the phrase 'Islamic Law' I can't help but think that either the Almighty is a real low down, shady character, or that some dude made up a lot of rules that would benefit himself and friends directly, and passed it off as a religion.
I do not want to be an a** about anything. I think you leveled a pretty serious charge at me, and I gave you lots of time to simply go read the posts, which you didn't do. You continued to accuse me of a warped view of rape, which deeply offended me. I think that I had to spend way too much time defending my honor when the onus really was on you to read posts that you are responding to.
...eat me.
Now, is that really necessary?
Certainly we should know that putting ourselves in dangerous situations is not bright, it still does not justify what happened however.
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