French woman jailed for being gang-raped (Religion of Peace Alert)

The Telegraph, UK ^ | 1/03/03 | Philip Delves Broughton

[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.

[Steel Wolf]

Dubai is considered a moderate pro-Western muslim nation.

In that case, I'm sure that after the oil runs out, that they will have no trouble attracting foriegn investment.

Either that, or they'll sink in to an abysmal Sub-Saharan Africa type infamy of wreched poverty, violence and obscurity.

[krb]

Certainly we should know that putting ourselves in dangerous situations is not bright, it still does not justify what happened however.

Of course not.

[11th Earl of Mar]

The French authorities will surely intervene.

BREAKING NEWS.... The French authorities have just announced their surrender. Additionally, France is offering all of its women to be gang raped by Muslim extremists.

[FreedomPoster]

I've got to say that I agree with that assessment. This culture is simply impossible, and there's so much hate inculcated so early, that even that might be too old.

[xm177e2]

For all of its arrogance and bluster, where are France's patriots? Where are her knights?

One of the most basic tenets of chivalry is to defend the honor of your women. If the French government doesn't issue a statement that they take her at her word and demand her release, it will have no honor. If the government doesn't even work quietly to demand her release, they will have no morals.

They're probably afraid to say they believe the woman, because that would mean the three men would get the death penalty for rape, and goodness golly, everyone knows the death penalty is uncivilized! Gang rapes are politically correct, so long as they're carried out by politically correct groups, but the death penalty is ALWAYS bad. </disgusted rant>

[winner3000]

I see how multiculturalism and moral relativism could have been factors that contributed to her decision of getting in the cab with the 3 men. After all, if she looked at reality vs the multicultural fantasy, she would have looked at the situation and PROFILED muslim men. Then she would have made a JUDGMENT and DISCRIMINATED against them by not going into the cab with them. Since the items in caps are anathema and worse than murder in the eyes of the "femalus liberalus", she instead decided to prove to herself that she is a good PC liberal and got in the car with them. Then, when she was victimized, she compounded her error by assuming that their government would actually give her justice! Note that what happened to her will do nothing to change the minds of other people in her specie.

[Happygal]

Not funny.

[Michael2001]

I wonder what all the leftists who defend Islam think of this?

[Brian Allen]

<< We should openly declare that, at least as applied to our citizens and those of every civilized country, Islamic Law is 'void as against public policy' and that our armed forces will ensure that no one who doesn't wish to be subject to the nonsense of islamic Law is required to be subject to it. >>

Good idea.

Except that, thanks to the deliberate policies of more than seven decades of "DemocRATic" potty control of all of the essential levers of American political, judicial and bureaucratic power; of "education," of "immigration policy and practice" and of "border control;" our own Beloved FRaternal Republic already as huge pockets of effectively colonized, uncivilized anti and un-American barbarism.

"Our" Nation's "legal" system and "courts" are, from top to bottom, overwhelmed with the detrious of the "defunct" former Communist Party of America whose bastard offspring, in the form of such treacherous terrorist organizations as the ACLU, NEA, Trial Lawyers, ABA and AARP foam and froth at the collective mouth in their envy-motivated and hatred-driven rabidly enraged race to destroy Our Nation -- and the very Judeo-Christian ["Human," that is!] Civilization we have created -- and Vanguard.

So if there is to be a single "civilized country" left on Earth [And Right now I count only America, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Israel in "the Civilized Group!"] in which to put your suggestion into practice, we had all better be thanking God there is, in United States of America's President and Armed Forces Commander In Chief, George Walker Bush, a leader capable of leading US into and guiding US through -- and winning -- the War On Terrorism; which is a war FOR Civilization and in defence of Civilization -- and against the onslaught of such barbarians and other savages as those featured in this piece -- and who already control far too much of the Planet Earth!

[SwordofTruth]

Accepting a ride home from a nightclub with three strangers isn't the brightest thing a woman can do. What follows shouldn't come as a complete surprise...

Yeah, it was stupid thing to do. However that doesn't give them the right rape her just because she's stupid.

[RightOnline]

"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)."

What an incredibly nasty, inaccurate, shallow, and ultimately sad post this is.

You do NOT want me to point out all of the reasons why, either.

[abishai]

I like your attitude. Me too.