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Saudis give gang-rape victim 100 lashes, one year jail
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by Ahmar Mustikhan | February 11, 2009 at 01:32 am
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There can be no bigger travesty of justice. Saudi Arabia's ruling Saud royal dynasty has been a staunch ally of the US and the West, but treats women like dirt bags.
The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long
In fact, if Islamic terrorism and extremism is to be contained, reforms must begin in Saudi Arabia, the land of Muhammad's birth that houses the two holiest shrines of the Muslims.
In the Saudi media you find examples of a pseudo-religious ideology gone beyond madness. In September a Saudi man divorced his wife because she allegedly violated morality by watching men on television to whom she was (obviously) not married or related. The court vacated the charge but granted the divorce.
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at 01:50 on February 11th, 2009
Is there any way women can get justice?
at 02:00 on February 11th, 2009
This is shocking. The rape victim is punished as if she has committed the crime.
at 09:50 on February 11th, 2009
But that's the largely the legal standpoint in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries, if I understand it correctly. By having sex outside of marriage, consensual or not, the legal perspective seems to be that a woman did commit a crime. The fact that a woman could be forced into sex doesn't change that perspective.
It's horrific, but sadly true.
at 03:54 on February 11th, 2009
Yes, this is really shocking and disturbing.
It is good that news like this leaked out from their country, because much of what we hear or see in the media are only positive about Saudi.
Kudos to citizen journalism. Some actions should be done about this inhumane act.
at 03:55 on February 11th, 2009
Not shocking.
This is expected off Saudis. And the worse is yet to come out.
.Agent.
at 05:05 on February 11th, 2009
Yet, they are all professing to be all holy and devout, especially in paradise where apparently 70 or so virgins await them., HMMMM something tells me I can see why the women there cover up, when the men seem to treat them more like breeding stock and one look can set them off. Perhaps it is not out of modesty, but out of fear of being on display for the few sickos out there.
at 06:16 on February 11th, 2009
"{HMMMM something tells me I can see why the women there cover up, when the men seem to treat them more like breeding stock and one look can set them off."
Not only that. They think that all men are like them. The best defence from the enemey is not to go infront of him and to hide our valuable assets. Since women are assets for them, they just hide them. Especially it is important to hide them from the "infidels". In this way they make sure that their properties are safe. Some years before the extend of this metal retardness was such that , their moral police used to cut off faces , bare hands and legs from female pictures printed in the magazines :))
.Agent.
at 05:53 on February 11th, 2009
I am not surprised. Some years back I read the Princess Trilogy by Jean Sasson. The subtitle of the first book is "A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia". It recounts how life for women in Saudi Arabia is less than civil on a good day and even for women who are members of the royal family. It also explains how the women of the royal family are sometimes helpless to assist other women in much worse personal situations.The series also skirts (no pun intended) the issue of the "viel of silence" that keeps this information from the rest of the world. This series changed my perspective on this ally of America.
at 07:27 on February 11th, 2009
This is an extremer variant of the western trial where a woman's past behaviour or clothing is held up as evidence of why the man who raped her might be excused. That any woman should be held responsible for a man's behaviour is wrong. Even if that female is a silly teenager flirting beyond all sense, or even a half-mad woman parading naked in a bar. Men and women alike must be held accountable for their own actions and rape should not be considered a fit punishment for any behaviour.
My heart breaks to hear of lovely young women who are first raped viciously, then dragged into public court for castigation and corporal punishment, or even death. This happens with tragic frequency throughout the middle east, africa and even many asian countries. Until women stand up and fight for their freedom in these countries, facing terrible danger, it will not change. There's little we in the west can do if the women (and right thinking men) there do not fight for themselves.
at 10:06 on February 11th, 2009
anarkissed, it breaks my heart too to hear of women (and not just the lovely young ones!) being treated like this. I, too, feel that as a privileged westerner, there's little I can do to help but support these women and address negative perspectives to women that are still prevalent here.
I completely agree with this. But I also wonder: in the face of such adversity, is it even possible to attain freedom in the places you mention? When women started to fight for their rights in the western world, they didn't have to overcome the same sort of entrenched and powerful prejudices that women in some Islamic countries face. In other words, while western women had (and still have) a great deal to fight against, women in the places you mention have much, much more.
at 07:37 on February 11th, 2009
This is shocking only to those who are living behind a veil of their own making, part of the ignorance that is tied to what has been going on long before the Biblical Mary Magdalene stoning episode. I suppose it all depends on where and how you were brought up.
White slavery, rape and torture are alive and well in the secret harems of the wealthy. And sadly so is Child Pornography, worldwide. I would suggest viewing old films like 'Mondo Cane' and 'Faces of Death' because sometimes reading about stuff like this in headlines just isn't enough, a jolt is needed. It took 9/11 to wake up a lot of people to the fact that there are other things going on besides the latest acqusition by Microsoft and the latest scandalous Gossip involving Royalty in the Western world.
at 09:57 on February 11th, 2009
The fact that rape happens in the west (which no one denies) does not change the fact that a woman being punished for being raped is horrific no matter where it happens.
And I, for one, resent being told that, because one is shocked by this, one is somehow naive about what's going on in the world. This is not the case at all. This is a shocking story, and a disgusting indictment on how women are treated in some parts of the world.
at 11:39 on February 11th, 2009
The US must extricate itself from the tush of this barbarric terrorist state.
at 15:04 on February 11th, 2009
i would like to hear from a saudi. Is this really as common as we are led to belive?
at 19:12 on February 11th, 2009
"i would like to hear from a saudi. Is this really as common as we are led to belive?"
Don't think any Saudi will respond or do even give a coconut to a single webpage full of openions against this incident. But "if " any one responds, I am sure that it will contain the following words.
Western conspiracy , crucade, infidel, propaganda, CIA, heretic....
.Agent.
at 23:47 on February 11th, 2009
plus, how dare you interfere in our culture!
at 02:00 on February 12th, 2009
I can never understand cultures/religions that cannot deferentiate between that which is intrinisically 'good or bad' or 'right or wrong'. Are people so dumb they cannot work it out for themselves whatever their culture? To cause others pain or suffering is ALWAYS wrong and those who have not the balls or insight to shun any part of their religion which allows that are spineless excuses for human beings who do not deserve their place on this earth.
at 07:10 on February 12th, 2009
We can all agree that this a sick and disgusting court ruling, which seems reinforce the notion that Western v Muslim ideologies cannot co-exist. But what I want to know is why none of the human rights groups have taken up this issue! Is there a petition or campaign in support of this poor rape victim? Saudi court rulings have been overturned or reduced before, because of international pressure. We can't let this issue sit pretty.