Raped Saudi Arabian Woman Gets 100 Lashes And No Abortion
TO Saudi Arabia where a judge has ordered a woman to be be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was, as she claims, gang-raped.
To put a tin lid on the matter, the 23-year-old woman became pregnant as a result of the attack.
She claims a man took her to his Jeddah home and with fouth others attacked her.
Should she get an abortion? She tried to at the Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces.
Reports the Mail:
According to the Saudi Gazette, she eventually ‘confessed’ to having ‘forced intercourse’ with her attackers and was brought before a judge at the District Court in Jeddah. He ruled she had committed adultery - despite not even being married - and handed down a year’s prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city.
She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child.
It all sounds terrible and fits with the narrative of the woman hating Middle East. This from 2007:
A woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes despite being gang raped has confessed to adultery, the justice ministry said as it tried to fend off mounting criticism.
Despite being sexually assaulted by seven men who kidnapped her with a male companion at knifepoint, the unidentified 19 year-old woman was sentenced in November 2006 to 90 lashes.
But what if the woman made up the story of gang rape to hide an affair? The Gazette doea not say what happened to the man nor his accomplices. This is a story looked at through the wrong end of a telescope.
Lashing a woman is terrible. A year in choky for falling pregnant outside marriage is a travesty. But if convicted of rape, the man is put to death.
Adultery is the most serious of crimes. If the guilty party is married, he or she is sentenced to death by stoning, beheading, or shooting. Stoning is the usual method of punishment. Proof of this crime must be established by confession or by four witnesses to the act.
Witnesses to the act of adultery? Isn’t that a live bed show or a swingers club?
This story is incomplete. The woman appears to us as a victim. But the law in Saudi seems to boii down to “No smoke without fire.”
And isn’t that the knee-jerk reaction Mail readers abide by..?
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February 13th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
That’s the Saudis for ya! Probably the worst nation in the region for human rights issues but, spookily enough, they do billions of dollars worth of business with us (Oil, Military, shit football teams) so we turn the other cheek. Makes one proud to be British!!
Presumably, once they run out of oil, we can go bomb the f*ckers!!?
February 13th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Morning Percy!
All would have become clear had you read the articles I linked to, though I appreciate that this is an unusual request which may be above and beyond the call of duty.
If you simply see nothing wrong with the long and loud, not to mention deeply misogynistic views of the patriarchy of the peoples of the book then feel free to cast the first stone.
Not in the direction of your laptop, of course…
February 13th, 2009 at 9:01 am
chenier…as usual you use every opportunity to turn the screws on the jews.. .Like Orwell, I believe your intellectual rationalising of your own prejudice is part of your anti-jewish neurosis and syas more about you than “the Jews”. I suggest you see a doctor…could i recommend Dr. Cohen…my accountant….he is a jew…but he could help you….if you ask him nicely.
Saudi Arabia = Sanhedrin= Jew….thats a new one on me….what next?
February 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Unless your name is Mary spelled with a V…
February 13th, 2009 at 6:50 am
There’s no other way of putting it: religion is bad news for women!
February 12th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Is this why the Dutch MP Wilders can enter UK?
February 12th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Without a doubt, Stig.
On the other hand, the mother of the sexually abused children mentioned above said that she was ‘powerless’, and neither the reporter nor anyone else seems to doubt that in ultra-orthodox communities this is indeed the case.
The so-called ‘Sanhedrin’, which last year demanded that all women be expelled from the IDF, has now demanded that Israel abolishes laws that contradict the Torah. Presumably the mothers of sexually abused children would become even more powerless than they already are.
In the meantime, the long-drawn out attempt to extradite Avrohom Mondrowitz, who fled to Israel to avoid multiple charges of sodomising children, has ground to a halt yet again.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a14279/News/New_York.html
Frankly, I wouldn’t touch any theocracy with a barge pole…
February 12th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Chattels, no more, no less
February 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
just like in my household
February 12th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Women in SA are the property of men. If they show any sign of objecting to their situation they are whipped back into line - literally.
February 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
The whole thing about witnesses in the Middle East is a can of worms; a week ago Ynet reported:
‘Police investigators stunned to find ultra-Orthodox parents ignored sexual abuse of their two children after their rabbi warned filing charges may invoke halachic rule equal to ‘din moser…..”Din Moser” is an ancient halachic law pertaining to informants, which according to the austere interpretation of Jewish tradition, equals a death sentence.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3667308,00.html
February 12th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
If this is supposed to be some sort of deterrent then it’s not working is it